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module to read IE favorites

miyagawa on 2006-06-15T10:03:55

Lazyweb,

aren't there any module to read Windows IE favorites? Namely, lookup windows registry for a profile directory, then opendir Favorites directory, loads URI shortcut files from there.

I searched "favorites" and "Bookmark" on search.cpan.org but couldn't find any.

URI::Collection

miyagawa on 2006-06-15T10:44:33

Hmm, looks like Gene's URI::Collection would do it. http://search.cpan.org/user/gene/URI-Collection-0.08/lib/URI/Collection.pm

The problem for now is that Netscape::Bookmarks can't parse my firefox bookmarks.html. Weird.

Reading IE favourites

Ron Savage on 2006-06-16T02:46:13

MSN's browser is a version of IE: http://savage.net.au/Perl.html#msn_2_html

Re:Reading IE favourites

ology on 2006-06-16T17:18:31

Ha. Good find.

My URI::Collection is closely coupled with the old Netscape::Bookmarks module. I would like to abstract that dependency away... I will make time to either freshen it, so it's useful again and document the superior alternatives. :-)