Export your reading list

Save to Chrome reading list and read it later

Chrome has a built-in reading list feature, located at the top right of your browser.

At any point of the day, you may stumble upon an article that catches your attention. You want to deep dive into it, but maybe you've been working on something else. In such cases, you can add the current page to your reading list. Like so:

reading-list

What if you want to share a couple of links with your friends or colleagues? Or organize your reading list in creative ways?

Chrome offers a way to export it easily with a few clicks. The prerequisite to using this service is that your google account should be synced. Click Turn on sync to enable this feature if you haven't.

turn-on-sync

Now, creating a new export consists of two steps: Selecting data to include & Choose file type, frequency, and file destination. Follow the next 10 steps to export your reading list.

  1. Visit Google Takeout page.
  2. First, click Deselect All on the top right corner.
  3. Scroll to the Chrome section; or search for Chrome with ⌘ + f (or ctrl + f).
  4. Mark the checkbox on the right. This will activate the link All Chrome data included.
  5. Click this link and Deselect All.
  6. Then select "ReadingList" and "OK".
  7. Scroll to the bottom and click the blue button "Next step".
  8. Choose file type, frequency, and file destination. If leave it as is, it will stick to the defaults.
  9. Finally, click Create export.
  10. Check your Downloads folder. Unzip the file and open the requested html document.
> Downloads
.
├── Takeout
│   ├── Chrome
│   │   └── ReadingList.html
│   └── archive_browser.html
└── takeout-20220908T143446Z-001.zip

And my reading list for today:

reading-list-output