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Exporting / importing Chrome/Chromium's search engines through command line + sqlite3

Posted 04-08-2017 at 03:01 PM by the dsc
Updated 04-08-2017 at 03:05 PM by the dsc

I don't know anything about it, except that it seems to have worked without problem:

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OK . . . you can do this on a Mac (or a Linux box, I presume) by manipulating a SQLite database. Presumably you could do the same thing on a PC with a command line tool euqivalent to sqlite3 that's available in a *nix environment.

Here's the steps (with Chrome quit in each case):

(1) Open a terminal; get to the Chrome application data "Default" directory. (On a Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default ; on a PC <User>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\CHrome\User Data\Default)
(2) Execute the command: sqlite3 "Web Data" .dump keywords > keywords.sql
This will dump the SQL commands necessary to recreate the search settings into the "keywords.sql" file.
(3) Grab the keywords.sql file and take it with you.

On the import machine:
(1) Open a terminal; get to the Chrome application data "Default" directory.
(2) Copy the keywords.sql file into that directory.
(3) Execute the command: sqlite3 "Web Data"
This will give you the sqlite interactive shell
(4): Execute the following commands in that shell
DROP TABLE keywords;
.read ./keywords.sql
.quit

In order, that wipes out the existing search settings entirely, reads in the new ones you're importing, and then closes the sqlite environment.
From user sjsawyer's answer on google groups:

https://productforums.google.com/d/m...o/Y_YKy0MgrHcJ

I guess theoretically you could just copy the database file if you have just a fresh install of one of them, but perhaps if you already used it for a while and then thought "gosh, I can't believe I haven't set up search engines like I had on the other browser/install", it could be useful, as it theoretically copies only more or less what's actually needed. I'm not sure but I guess it may be copying also log-ins and passwords, though, I just browsed it a little bit in a SQL GUI thing, but I can't really tell. The whole file also contains stuff related with extensions and more stuff in general, so it could corrupt other stuff, if you copy the entire database into a non-fresh install. But one could always copy the entire "default"/other profile sub-folder, anyway. I guess.

Obviously also works for the same machine, if you have different-but-similar browsers installed for some reason, or dual boots with another distro, or perhaps even windows, but I'm not sure on the latter. I guess the SQL thing is probably the same still.
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