# Install chrome-export with Homebrew, Nix

Convert Chrome's bookmarks and history to HTML bookmarks files. Version 2.0.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#chrome-export.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:chrome-export
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install chrome-export
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#chrome-export
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ch/chrome-export/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:chrome-export
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.0.2
- **Source summary:** Convert Chrome's bookmarks and history to HTML bookmarks files
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/bdesham/chrome-export>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bdesham/chrome-export>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- export-chrome-bookmarks (alias)
- export-chrome-history (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.0.2
## Project history and usage

chrome-export is a small Python command-line utility for exporting Google Chrome bookmarks and history to the browser bookmarks HTML format.

### Project history

The project began in 2011 as py-chrome-bookmarks. Its README explains that Chrome already offered an interactive bookmark export, but the script existed to make bookmark and history export usable from cron or other automated workflows.

Version 2.0 in 2018 renamed the project to chrome-export and renamed the executables to export-chrome-bookmarks and export-chrome-history without changing functionality.

### Adoption history

The official README documents Homebrew and Nix installation paths in addition to manual installation, while the supplied package facts confirm Homebrew and Nix package names.

### How it is used

The package provides export-chrome-bookmarks and export-chrome-history. If an input file is omitted, the tools try to open Chrome's default bookmarks or history file and write an HTML bookmarks-format output file.

### Why package nerds care

Its package-nerd value is modest but real: it turns browser profile files, including Chrome's SQLite history database, into scriptable exports without depending on browser UI automation.

### Timeline

- 2011: Initial release as py-chrome-bookmarks.
- 2011: Version 1.1 started counted releases.
- 2017: Version 1.2 added Python 3 support and optional default input-file discovery.
- 2018: Version 2.0 renamed the project and executables to chrome-export.
- 2019: Version 2.0.2 added man pages.

### Related projects

- Related surfaces include Google Chrome profile data, the browser bookmarks HTML export format, Homebrew, and Nix.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/bdesham/chrome-export#readme>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/bdesham/chrome-export>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/bdesham/chrome-export/releases>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - chrome-export: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ch/chrome-export/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/chrome-export.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/chrome-export.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph