Google Inbox has this great link saving feature that lets you save a link from an extension, the mobile app, or the Google Inbox itself. I really like how you can snooze links for later. I have a ton of links saved through this. Unfortunately, Google Inbox is going away at the end of March 2019.
Gmail does not show any of these previously saved links. Does anyone have a good way to export these links. They don't seem to be listed in takeout. As a bonus, what would you import them into?
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To export 'Save to inbox' links from Inbox mail:
Create an Archive of 'Reminders' on takeout.google.com because all your 'Save to inbox' links are stored in 'Reminders' You will get a zip file of your links to download.
But I don't know how to import them into Gmail. Any idea?
I could not find the "Reminder" Folder in Gmail on takeout.google.com so I used the following strategie:
Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('qH')).concat(Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('pC'))).map((el) => {const href=el.parentNode.href; const pos1 = href.indexOf('www.google.com/url?q='); if (pos1!==-1){const pos2=href.indexOf('&');return decodeURIComponent(href.substring(pos1 +'www.google.com/url?q='.length, (pos2===-1?href.length:pos2)))} else {return href}}).join("\r")
The script is searching the open page for all "VIEW"-buttons and will extract the urls. Additional it will unpack all urls which would need a redirect thru google.
if you miss links ensure that you scrolled until all your saved links have been visible.
'[href*="//www.google.com/url?"]'. Here's a version that found all my links: Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[href*="//www.google.com/url?"]')).map(el => decodeURIComponent(el.search.replace(/.*q=([^&]+).*/, '$1'))).join('\n')
– medmunds
Mar 23 at 21:23
