Improved import from Pocket (HTML export)

[dchakro]

Hi,

I am not familiar with Go or this project's codebase, but I am running shiori on docker.
I figured out a way to import pocket links where the links from pocket is used to popualate shiori's database.

Feature:
Import links from pocket so that they have the title, image (if any) and

Proposed Solution:
This shell script (uses commands bundled within the shiori docker):

#!/bin/sh
# optional: wget -O pocket.html <link to your pocket exports>
grep -Eoi '<a [^>]+>' pocket.html | grep -Eo 'href="[^\"]+"' | cut -d'=' -f 2 | tr -d '"' | tac > Pocket2Shiori.txt

while IFS= read -r line; do
    shiori add $line
done < Pocket2Shiori.txt

rm Pocket2Shiori.txt

shiori add does all the heavy lifting here. The shell script just parses the pocket output to fish out the html URLs.

[deanishe]

Nice solution. (I use something similar to import URLs from Pinboard.)

Would you add this to the wiki? It's a useful tip and I think more people will find it there.

[dchakro]

Hi @deanishe
Thank you for taking responsibility of this lovely project.
I have happily added the instructions to the wiki.
https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori/wiki/Usage#improved-import-from-pocket

Marking this issue as closed.

[z3cko]

Sadly the current importer does not take into account the title of the URLs as exported by pocket. I created a issue #292 describing the problem.

[robflate]

I ran this and it correctly imported my bookmarks with images and the title but it did not import my tags.

I also ran the built in shiori pocket method which correctly imported my tags but not the title or images.

How can I get titles, images and tags from Pocket? Thanks.

Note: I'm running the latest version in docker using a MYSQL database.