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Export IE Favorites To OPML file!

Lastnight while working on some new RSS-related projects, I created a simple app to Export your entire list of IE Favorites to OPML (XML).

Click here, to download “FavoritesToOpml” [ .NET 1.1 ]

Enjoy!

 

Standard Disclaimer:  THIS UTILITY IS PROVIDED AS-IS.  USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Posted: Jan 20 2004, 07:28 PM by CodeSniper | with 20 comment(s)
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Comments

Aspirer said:

Thanks Lance, I used it and looks good to me. I will try it on couple of different senarios that I can think off. Was wondering if you would know of a tool that can transform a .xml file to .opml file, need this badly.
# January 20, 2004 8:57 PM

Lance said:

Use XSLT!

Yeah, easier said than done, but thats your best route.
# January 20, 2004 9:13 PM

Aspirer said:

Thanks
# January 20, 2004 9:43 PM

TrackBack said:

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# January 21, 2004 2:10 PM

TrackBack said:

FavoritesToOPML: As with any tool, it can be used for both evil and for good! :)
# January 21, 2004 2:11 PM

TrackBack said:

Export IE Favorites to an OPML file from Lance's Whiteboard....
# January 21, 2004 5:25 PM

Ron Green said:

Lance...I'm getting the following error:

Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name:Length
# January 21, 2004 10:13 PM

Lance said:

I'll take a look at it ASAP...probably something simple.

Thanks for the feedback!
# January 22, 2004 4:26 AM

Constantin Basturea said:

Any chance to make this kind of application for Mozilla/Firebird? :) Thank you!
# January 23, 2004 3:14 PM

Lance said:

Being a .NET developer, its somewhat painful for me to consider such blasphemy. :)

I'll take a look at Firebird and see what kind of work it would take.

Thanks for the suggestion.
# January 23, 2004 3:17 PM

TrackBack said:

As the web is full of endless tools - this time useful tools :-), here´s another: Export IE Favorites To OPML file!
# January 24, 2004 5:19 PM

mandar said:

i was wondering if you could take the OPML file and put it back as Favorites on some other computer ? this way i'll have a nice small tool to carry my favorites on the network
# January 28, 2004 4:18 PM

Lance said:

Actually I am already working on that!

Stay tuned, I should have a new utility with both Import & Export posted by next week.
# January 28, 2004 4:23 PM

Kol said:

Any fix update on the following error:

Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name:Length
# January 30, 2004 8:01 AM

Lance said:

I havent been able to reproduce the error on various machines.

Can you send me some details:

OS Version
.NET Version
Your account-permissions (admin, user, power-user, etc.)

Feel free to use the "Contacts" page for this feedback:
http://weblogs.asp.net/lhunt/contact.aspx

At them moment, the only way I could imagine this happening is if it returned a null when retrieving the path to your "Favorites" folder.

I havent had any other reports of this problem, so am a bit perplexed.

On a side-note, I am planning to release a new version next week which includes an "Import OPML" feature plus a few improvements to the Export features. These changes possibly will fix your problem.

Thanks for the patience...
# January 30, 2004 10:28 AM

Laurus said:

Erm...If you have IE6 why not use the import-export wizard under File/Import&Export ?

It lets you export and import Cookies and Favorites (even as a HTML file).

BTW: this OPML tool works great too!!
# February 18, 2004 10:12 AM

Lance said:

the Import-Export wizard works fine if you want html. In fact, I used it for a while with an XSLT which would transform the output into OPML.

This tool was merely simplifies the process by making it a more direct conversion.

Thanks.
# February 18, 2004 10:26 AM

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# May 25, 2006 6:18 AM

Vinny Carpenter’s Link blog » Blog Archive » links for 2006-05-26 said:

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# May 28, 2006 7:21 PM

Wooster School Blog Site » Today in Eighth Grade Computer Class . . . said:

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# February 1, 2007 12:37 PM