Bookmarks with same URLS's

April 1, 2022 7:12 PM

Hi everyone; I have some bookmarks that have the same URL. Sometimes I will find a site,add it to my favs,then later see that I already have the site,but it's a different page from that site,lol.Because I have a lot of favourites,I don't want to check every single one manually. I have edited all my favs with a new name,lol. Is there a scanner out there that will scan all my favs and just find the ones that have the same URL? Already used a bookmark checker,but it just shows me what sites are dead. I'm using Chrome. Thanks in advance for all your help :-)
posted by LOOKING to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Dashing this off before I have an obligation to meet, but can you export them in CSV format? If yes, you could just open that with Google Sheets or Excel and alphabetize the URLs to find duplicates - although the removal would still be manual in your bookmarks manager.

If you have multiple links from websites that aren’t *exactly* the same, but that are close-enough that you want to de-duplicate, you could use =LEFT(B2,25) or similar to get the first significant chunk of each URL (where URLs are in column B, you have a header row in row 1, and you want to compare the first 25 characters of each: that would cover https://www.MetaFilter.com).
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 8:07 PM on April 1, 2022

Linkagogo.com will find duplicates
posted by Sophont at 10:03 PM on April 1, 2022

Just to clarify, it sounds like your issue isn’t finding duplicate URLS (two bookmarks too the same exact page) but finding duplicate domain names (two different pages but on the same domain)?
posted by bitdamaged at 10:12 PM on April 1, 2022 [2 favorites]

As pointed out by @bitdamaged, you do NOT have duplicate bookmarks. You have multiple bookmarks within the same domain.

Chrome can export bookmarks as JSON files, which can then be converted to XLS and sorted in Excel or Google Sheets.

From there you can use a formula to chop off the excess, leaving the domain name, then you can sort them and eliminate duplicates.

This Stackoverflow Q&A discussed the same thing and has similar suggestions.
posted by kschang at 11:30 PM on April 1, 2022

Response by poster: Thanks everyone. I just wanted a simple program that would scan my favs that would point out that 2 or more favs are from the same website.
An example: Say I have a car repair site,and I was looking at brakes. I keep that sight in my favourites.
Next month I see a site that explains exhaust muffler repair-so I keep that site also.
So,now I have two pages I kept-but they are from the same site,and I don't know this,lol.
I seem to have done that several times,and now I don't want to check every site I have.
I don't want to use Google Sheets or Excel,to much for me,lol.
I just had hopes there was a program that would scan,and highlight the fact that I have 2 or more pages from that single site,or domain.
My apologizes for not being clear in what I meant.
posted by LOOKING at 8:09 AM on April 2, 2022

Response by poster: Finally found one that works for me,yippie,lol.

Bookmark Dupes,in the chrome web store.

Works great :-)
posted by LOOKING at 4:30 AM on April 25, 2022