export-android-tabs

export-android-tabs is a PowerShell tool to export open tabs in a Chrome browser on an Android phone to a computer on Windows. Saves tabs in JSON and CSV formats.

Prerequisites

• enabled USB debugging on your Android device
• Windows computer with PowerShell (installed by default starting with Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1)
• Installed Google Chrome Browser of course
• * Android Debug Bridge (we need the minimal version - the platform tools ~6 Mb. It has the adb.exe executable)
• ! no root required !

Connect an Android phone to a Windows PC. While connected you may need to tap "OK" on your phone to make the connection trusted between your PC and the phone.
* ADB will be downloaded and extracted during script execution if you don't have it locally.

Usage

Open export-android-tabs.ps1 in a text editor (i.e. Notepad++) and modify paths:

• to the output folder where to store a file with tabs: variable $outFolder
• (optional) path to adb.exe: variable $pathToADB (the script downloads it if not found at the location specified)
• (optional) names of the output files: $pathToJsonFile and $pathToOutputFile

Then save and run the script and execute it in PowerShell or copy-paste script contents to the PowerShell window.

After the script is executed, you will get two files:

• tabs [datetime].json with information about all your tabs in a raw JSON format.
• tabs [datetime].csv suitable for Excel or any other spreadsheet processing software.

Example output

The output in a JSON file has the following fields (with sample values):

• "description": ""
• "devtoolsFrontendUrl": "https://chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com/serve_internal_file/@6aa76cc02752c25ffead4a19a03e13cdda08db6a/inspector.html?ws=localhost:9223/devtools/page/19939",
• "id": "19939",
• "title": "Удачный переход Netflix на GraphQL / Хабр",
• "type": "page",
• "url": "https://habr.com/ru/companies/otus/articles/785672/",
• "webSocketDebuggerUrl": "ws://localhost:9223/devtools/page/19939"

Basically, we need title and url.

Notes

The script has an -Encoding utf8 parameter which is critical to properly read UTF8 symbols from the title field in the JSON file. These are umlauts ä ö ü, accents é â ê, cyrillic привет, etc.

On my phone (Xiaomi 11T), the script is working while the phone is locked. But you may need to keep it unlocked with active Chrome browser on the screen.

Credit

This script was inspired by this StackExchange answer and following comments.