Export your entire X.com (Twitter) bookmark collection -- no limits, with folders.
X.com has no bookmark export. The official data archive excludes bookmarks entirely, and the API v2 caps at 800 with no folder support. xarchive is a Chrome extension that uses X.com's internal GraphQL API to export your complete bookmark collection -- every bookmark, every folder, unlimited.
- Unlimited export -- no 800-bookmark cap
- Folder assignments -- includes X Premium bookmark folders
- Rich data -- full text, author info, media URLs, engagement metrics, quoted tweets, entities
- Robust -- handles long-form tweets, deleted tweets, and visibility-restricted tweets
- Pause / resume -- stop mid-run and download what you have so far
- Account-safe -- conservative rate limiting (2.5s+ delays) with automatic backoff
- Built-in viewer -- browse your exported bookmarks in a Twitter-like dark UI
- Zero dependencies -- pure JavaScript, no build step, no npm install
- Privacy-first -- runs entirely in your browser; no data is sent anywhere
- Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/sytelus/xarchive.git
- Load in Chrome -- go to
chrome://extensions/, enable Developer mode, click Load unpacked, select thexarchivefolder - Browse X.com -- visit any page on x.com so the extension can capture auth credentials in the background
- Export -- click the xarchive icon in your toolbar, verify the three status dots are green, and click Start Export
- Download -- when complete, click Download JSON
How long? Each page fetches ~100 bookmarks with a ~3s delay. Roughly: 1,000 bookmarks in ~30s, 10,000 in ~5 min.
cd xarchive && git pullThen go to chrome://extensions/ and click the refresh icon on the xarchive card.
| Button | When available | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Start Export | Idle, stopped, or complete | Clears stored data and begins a fresh export |
| Pause | Exporting | Pauses the current run (can be resumed) |
| Resume | Paused | Continues from where it left off |
| Stop | Exporting or paused | Ends the run; partial data available for download |
| Download JSON | Stopped or complete | Downloads collected bookmarks as JSON |
- Partial downloads -- stop mid-run and still download everything collected so far.
- Folders -- if you have X Premium, folder assignments are included automatically.
- Re-download -- close and reopen the extension tab; the download button persists until you start a new export.
- Rate limiting -- the extension uses 2.5s+ delays between requests. If X.com throttles, it backs off automatically.
viewer.html is a standalone bookmark browser that lets you explore your exported JSON in a dark-themed UI.
Open it:
- Local file -- open
viewer.htmlin any browser and drag-and-drop your JSON file (or click to pick). - From a URL -- append
?url=<json-url>to load a hosted file:viewer.html?url=https://example.com/bookmarks.json
What it offers:
- Folder sidebar with counts and search filter
- Full-text search across tweet text, authors, handles, and URLs
- Sort by newest or oldest
- Virtual scrolling -- smooth even with tens of thousands of bookmarks
- Tweet cards with author info, metrics, media, quoted tweets, and folder tags
- Press
/to jump to the search box - IndexedDB caching -- reload the page without re-parsing
xarchive uses Chrome's Manifest V3 APIs to passively capture auth headers from your normal X.com browsing, then makes paginated GraphQL requests from the extension's options page. Query IDs are discovered dynamically (they rotate every 2-4 weeks), with JS bundle scraping as a fallback. All data is stored locally in IndexedDB via Dexie.
For the technically curious, see PLAN.md for the architecture and FINDINGS.md for research on X.com's internal APIs.
- No external servers -- everything runs locally in your browser.
- No tracking -- no analytics, telemetry, or data collection of any kind.
- Your credentials stay local -- auth tokens are captured from your existing X.com session and never leave the extension.
- Open source -- audit the code yourself.
Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue for bugs or feature requests, or submit a pull request.
Since xarchive is a zero-dependency Chrome extension with no build step, contributing is straightforward: edit the JS files, reload the extension in chrome://extensions/, and test.