https://github.com/ahmetsait/firemark
A command line utility for downloading missing Firefox bookmark icons
https://github.com/ahmetsait/firemark
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A command line utility for downloading missing Firefox bookmark icons
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ahmetsait/firemark
- Owner: ahmetsait
- License: mpl-2.0
- Created: 2022-07-22T07:53:48.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-26T15:06:43.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-26T16:22:33.179Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: firefox
- Language: D
- Homepage:
- Size: 2.66 MB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: Readme.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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========
Firemark is a command line program for downloading missing Firefox bookmark icons. It reads `places.sqlite` from the given profile directory and downloads missing favicons into `favicons.sqlite` in the same folder.
Firemark can also be used as a helper utility for extracting favicon links from a given URL as an alternative to various online favicon retrieval services. See the [`--extract` option](#documentation).
Downloads
---------
Prebuilt binaries can be found in [Releases](https://github.com/ahmetsait/firemark/releases) section.
Getting Started
---------------
Navigate to `about:profiles` in Firefox and copy the `Root Directory` path from your default profile and replace `` with it in the commands below. Press `Ctrl+C` to stop Firemark before it completes. You can also press `Ctrl+C` 3 times to immediately shut it down in case Firemark takes too long to respond.
**Close all Firefox instances before using Firemark on your profile directory.**
### Windows
```batch
.\firemark.exe --verbose --profile ""
```
### Linux
```bash
./firemark --verbose --profile ""
```
Documentation
-------------
### Usage
`firemark [options] --profile path/to/profile-folder`
Downloads missing Firefox bookmark icons.
`firemark [options] --extract https://example.com`
Extract favicon URLs from web page with [`link[rel~=icon]` selector](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors) to standard output.
### Options
- `-p`, `--profile=PATH`
Path to profile folder where `favicons.sqlite` and `places.sqlite` exists.
- `-b`, `--backup`
Backup `favicons.sqlite`. (Default)
- `-B`, `--no-backup`
Don't backup `favicons.sqlite`.
- `-e`, `--erase`
Erase favicon table before proceeding.
- `-f`, `--force`
Force downloading icons for all bookmarks instead of just missing ones.
- `-j`, `--jobs=N`
Number of concurrent jobs. Use it to speed up downloading favicons if you have too many bookmarks.
Anything more than `-j 5` is not recommended since servers might block you out because of rate limiting.
- `-x`, `--extract=URL`
Extract favicon URLs from web page with [`link[rel~=icon]` selector](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors) to standard output and exit.
This also includes the root `/favicon.ico` for convenience.
- `-v`, `--verbose`
Print diagnostic messages.
- `--version`
Output version information and exit.
- `--help`
Show this help information and exit.
Known Issues
------------
- Firemark inserts duplicate pages into `moz_pages_w_icons` table.
- Apparently some `icon_url` columns in `moz_icons` table end up with incomplete URLs such as `/favicon.ico`, `/assets/favicons/favicon.ico` or `/static/assets/favicon.ico?v=2`.
See [Issues](https://github.com/ahmetsait/firemark/issues) for bug reports.
Building
--------
You don't strictly need a specific compiler but those listed in Prerequisites are the ones used in build scripts.
Check out the `build.sh` & `build.ps1` files to learn more and tweak as you like.
On Windows, you can also link against `sqlite3.lib` import library instead of the object file directly. In this case the compiled executable will depend on `sqlite3.dll`. See: [How to generate an import library (LIB-file) from a DLL?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9946322/how-to-generate-an-import-library-lib-file-from-a-dll)
### Windows
Prerequisites:
- Microsoft Visual C Compiler `cl`
- Digital Mars D Compiler `dmd`
From PowerShell:
```powershell
.\build.ps1
```
If you're getting "running scripts is disabled on this system" errors, execute the following:
```powershell
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope CurrentUser -Force
```
See [About Execution Policies](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_execution_policies) for more information.
### Linux
Prerequisites:
- GNU Compiler Collection `gcc`
- Digital Mars D Compiler `dmd`
From Bash:
```bash
./build.sh
```
License
-------
Firemark is licensed under the [Mozilla Public License 2.0](LICENSE.txt).