youversion-download-bookmarks

A way to download all your YouVersion bookmarks in JSON format

Background

I wanted a way to download my +1,000 bookmarks with tags. The dev team said they couldn't do it for me... So I did it myself.

How it works

getAllBookmarks is a promise that returns all bookmarks

How to Use

1. Log into https://my.bible.com/
2. Paste the getAllBookmarks function into the console log
3. Do something with the data

example usage with download of JSON data

getAllBookmarks('scottmforte', true).then((bookmarks)=>{
  
  // explore the data in the console log
  console.log('bookmarks', bookmarks);
  
  // download the data in JSON format
  var dataStr = "data:text/json;charset=utf-8," + encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(bookmarks));
  var dlAnchorElem = document.createElement("a");
  dlAnchorElem.setAttribute("href", dataStr);
  dlAnchorElem.setAttribute("download", "bookmarks.json");
  dlAnchorElem.click();

});

TODO

Eventually it would be cool to do this progromatically with cURL and sessions, but I don't really want to spend more time on this. I have what I need. If you want to do it, happy to merge it here.

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God Bless & Make it a Great Day!

❤️ Scott Forte