I use Pocket mainly to save articles for later reading, and archive them if they are worth a reference at a later time. You can pretty much Pocket anything such as links, videos, and images. My bookmarks now only contain sites that I frequent, and financial sites to lessen the chance of link hijacking when searching for the site on Google.

Similar to my last post Export Pushbullet Pushes, I wanted to export all my Pocket data in text format so I wrote this bash script:

#!/bin/bash

# see https://getpocket.com/developer/docs/v3/retrieve

consumerkey=$1
accesstoken=$2

curl \
--header "Content-type: application/json" \
--request POST \
--data "{\"state\": \"all\", \"sort\": \"newest\", \"detailType\": \"complete\", \"consumer_key\": \"$consumerkey\", \"access_token\": \"$accesstoken\"}" \
https://getpocket.com/v3/get > export

jq ".list[] | {sort_id: .sort_id, title: .resolved_title, url: .resolved_url, excerpt: .excerpt}" export > pocket-export.json