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I built a tool to let you export your X bookmarks and categorize them

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Free Twitter/X bookmark exporter

The Chrome extension exports everything on your X bookmarks page to a local file. No login, no data leaving your machine.

If your account gets suspended tomorrow, your bookmarks are gone. This prevents that.

I also built a viewer if you want to search, tag, and browse your exports like an actual library — offline, no account needed. $4.69/year for the viewer, but the exporter is fully standalone if you just want the backup.

It uses only React. If you want to support me, it costs almost nothing. Advice also welcomed.

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Free Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bookmark-exporter...

Viewer: https://x-archive.netlify.app/

Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHj81BOdZ4

Twitter: https://x.com/XArchiveExport

What are x bookmarks? I think I need a concrete example.

Also what are its actual features? What does it export? High resolution media? Author information? Replies?

But also, this feels like a 5 minute vibe coded project you put together on a whim to try to make money. 50% of the description on every page is about paying you. I want a good twitter exporter, but I want something the author is invested in enough that it might conceivably work 5 months later too.

X is Twitter. You bookmark practically anything (post, comment, quote) and can find it later in one place.

I did put it together on a whim because I don't trust that something won't happen to X.com some years in the future with Elon and you legitimately cannot export your bookmarks from X. If that happens, your bookmarks will be lost.

Yes, it is a paid product because I put serious time into it and I designed it to be something I would use myself (even if I make no money off it).

Features are really simple. The annual license is $4.69 because I expect people to export their bookmarks only once every few months.

1. Chrome extension to scrape your bookmark page. You can find plenty of extensions that will do this, but they give you a JSON/CSV file that's not very useful.

2. The viewer is paid. You import the JSON from Step 1 and it loads all your bookmarks.

3. You can tag your bookmarks. You can download the media files embedded into each bookmark. You can delete your bookmarks.

4. You can export your bookmarks as another JSON that you can save or give to a friend (if you trust them with your private data).

5. I may add AI tagging for Claude to suggest tags for your bookmarks.

Sounds useful, but the UX / UI really needs some love here! Maybe good to have a pass with the AI?

I would add AI if I can get people to pay for the regular version as it is (where people just manually tag their bookmarks). Although with the filter, you can filter by a keyword and tag a bunch of them at once.

Yeah, the UX needs work, but I am not an UX practitioner and I intended entirely to prioritize functionality.

I think this would have been restricted if it had a Show HN tag. I flagged it because it's from a new account. My understanding is that new accounts posting to Show HN are recently constrained.

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