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Reputation: 771

Access safari bookmarks in macOS Mojave programmatically

Since upgraded to macOS Mojave, I find there are permission restrictions to user from accessing ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist. So is there an alternative way to do it programmatically? Is there a SafariKit or something I can use to import bookmarks to my own program? I tried to search online, but no one mentions anything about it. If you guys know, please help me. Thank you

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1809

Answers (1)

Eric Aya
Eric Aya

Reputation: 70098

You cannot access ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist anymore because of the stricter security rules in Mojave.

I don't think there's an API to do this specific action yet, so the solution for now is to add the application yourself to System Preferences > Security > Confidentiality > Disk access.

For example if you add Terminal.app to this Confidentiality subgroup, this will grant access to the whole disk to all commands executed in Terminal, inluding using cat/vim/... to access ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist.

Upvotes: 4

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