windows 7 - How can I check my bookmarks in Chrome for broken links?
2014-07
Fernando
For years I have been creating bookmarks in Google Chrome and now there are so many (around 2000) that I would spend days checking one by one to make sure that the URLs are still valid, and that the sites and or pages haven't gone away.
How could I automate checking these bookmarks for broken links and, ideally, remove bookmarks with invalid URLs?
I'm running Chrome on Windows 7.
Answering Rich Homolka: by "broken" I mean "kaput", not working, damaged, something that has ceased to perform the function for which was created.
Jason C
A cursory Google search for "chrome find broken bookmarks" yields the following plugins at the top of the results page, among others:
Bookmark Sentry: A bookmark scanner that checks for duplicate and bad links.
Bookmark Checker: Bookmarks Checker. Scan favorites for broken or dead links. Delete empty, and duplicate folders.
There isn't really a concept of a "damaged" page and, sadly, there's no HTTP response code for "ceased performing the function for which it was created", but the above add-ons should do what you want (scan for 404, 403, timed out, etc.). Bookmark Sentry looks to be the more popular of the two.
Paul
I'm puzzled by the apparent lack of solutions for launching Chrome (or even Firefox) bookmarks from a launcher. The Windows 7 start menu only supports IE, which is no surprise from Microsoft. Launchy does support Firefox bookmarks, but not Chrome, and I'm trying to get away from Firefox and preferably Launchy too.
Since I more frequently launch web sites than desktop applications, and I don't want to keep a browser window cluttering my desktop all the time, I'm quite puzzled by this. Being able to hit a single key and type a few characters to launch important web sites is just terribly useful, especially since I have ergonomic issues. Being able to type a query like "amazon TAB Raiders of the Lost Ark" is even better (yes, Chrome can do these from the bar).
How can I get a launcher that indexes Chrome bookmarks? Is there something I'm missing, or have things really taken such a step back from the Launchy/Firefox combo? Do I really have to manually sit around and figure out what sites I go to recently and then create a Favorite/shortcut/whatever for each one? Write myself a Python script that runs periodically to parse Chrome's bookmarks file and create matching Favorites?
timbooo
Use this updated weby.dll for Launchy to work with your Chrome bookmarks.
As of Launchy 2.5.0, the "weby" plugin only supports Firefox & IE bookmarks. This updated weby.dll supports indexing the bookmarks from the default profile in Chrome. The following .dll adds Chrome support to weby.dll.
Note that according to this thread it only works with Windows.