How to perform backup of browser-favorites in MS edge with powershell

Question

our users are working with microsoft edge. the business-account is logged in automatically in the browser and favorites are synched into ms azure.
nevertheless we would like backup our users browser favorites. in the old-IE-days we could easily grab the favorites-folder in the user-profile...

is there a supported solution to properly backup automatically the edge favorites from our AD-users? (for example with a powershell script?)
as far as we know, there is no possibility to view, manage or backup the favorites in the ms-azure-cloud....

Answer 1

Hi @SandroDlnc-0330

The Edge favorites data is in this file: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Bookmarks. So you only need to get data from this file.

I found a similar thread and tested the powershell script in the answer, it can work well with Edge 86.0.622.69. You can also try the PowerShell-Script EdgeChromium-Bookmarks-Backup-JSON-to-HTML.ps1. Please note to change the Path to EdgeChromium Bookmarks File to the following if you're using Edge stable version:

$JSON_File_Path = "$env:localappdata\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Bookmarks"  

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Yu Zhou

Answer 2

Hi Yu Zhou

i already knew the script from gunnar. but it was wrote for the edge V79 beta-release. in my case i have tested the script, but icons in the favorites-bar are gone or merged with the standard-favorites. the folder-structure was also gone.
so for me its not the perfect solution actually :-/

Answer 3

I just updated that script work, for the Favorites Bar. Tested with Edge v98
https://github.com/gunnarhaslinger/Microsoft-Edge-based-on-Chromium-Scripts/blob/e049f1ef1ec957f9c74bd893ffb8cb09ad1c4be0/EdgeChromium-Bookmarks-Backup-JSON-to-HTML.ps1