Comments on: Export Safari RSS feeds via OPML

By: NicolaD’Agostino.net » Applicando » Dal Mac a Google

NicolaD’Agostino.net » Applicando » Dal Mac a Google — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:37:20 +0000

[...] caso i feed siano in Safari la soluzione migliore si trova all’indirizzo dcostanet.net/wordpress/2005/06/13/export-safari-rss-feeds-via-opml/ sotto due forme: uno script .sh da usare nel Terminale oppure un file per [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:08:26 +0000

I just wrote an app that makes this all easier:

http://www.tempel.org/SafariFeedToOPML

Would appreciate if you’d link to it. Your script was helpful in making mine work, i.e. it showed me the format I needed use put into the opml file. Thanks for that!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:54:33 +0000

Actually,
the script also is useless with Safari 5, it appears: It produces a list of some older RSS bookmarks, not the current ones Safari 5 uses.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:23:46 +0000

Uh, update:
vincent’s post mainly need fixing with the “smart quotes”. Turning all “ and ” into ” will get the script to work.
However, vincent’s script doesn’t read Safari’s bookmarks but those from Mail, so that’s not useful for most of us, probably.

Also, running your script in Terminal does still work in 10.6.4, only the Automator action appears to be having trouble as described.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:17:04 +0000

Sameer,

this doesn’t work with 10.6.4 and Safari 5.0.1: The automator deletes the interim file again after completion, and a Safari.opml is nowhere to be found then.

The updated script by vincent would be nice to have, but it got apparently corrupted here.

Could you please re-post vincent’s post properly quoted, or update yours with his code, then test on 10.6?

By: How to make Safari fast again | The choice to be rational is arbitrary

How to make Safari fast again | The choice to be rational is arbitrary — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:23:53 +0000

[...] 1. Moved all my Safari RSS feeds to Google Reader, which has a superior interface anyway, using this tool <http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2005/06/13/export-safari-rss-feeds-via-opml/>. [...]

By: vincent

vincent — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:44:18 +0000

hi,
I couldn t get the script working on my 10.5.8 . I just wanted to export my 71 rss flow out of mail.app so I change some little thing to make the scritp work ($BASH_ARGV problem).
I am sharing it with you , if this can help someone.

cat << HEADER

Safari OPML Export

HEADER
##sqlite3 ~/Library/Syndication/Database3 ‘select * from Sources;’ | \
## sed -e ‘s/&/\&\;/g’ -e ‘s//\>\;/g’ -e ‘s/”/\"\;/g’ -e ‘s/\x2C/\'/g’ | \
## awk -F”|” ‘{printf “\
## “, $4, $2 }’

cat << FOOTER

FOOTER

this pass opml validation on all my flow, support https flow, title with reserved caracters . hope it helps.

Vincent.