How to Export Your X (Twitter) Bookmarks
X gives you no export button. Here are the options that actually exist, and what each one costs you in effort.
X does not let you export bookmarks. The official data archive (Settings → Your account → Download an archive of your data) includes your posts, likes and DMs, but bookmarks are not reliably part of it — and even when data is included, an archive is a wall of JSON rather than something you can read.
So the practical options are these three.
1. Copy them out by hand
Open your bookmarks, open each post, copy the link into a spreadsheet or note. Free, works today, and fine for twenty posts.
The catch is that you end up with a list of URLs, which is the weakest possible form of an archive: if the author deletes the post, locks their account or leaves, your row becomes a dead link with no way to recover what it said.
2. The X API
There is a bookmarks endpoint, and if you are comfortable writing a script it will pull your saved posts programmatically. Realistically this means a developer account, an app, OAuth setup, and paid API access at anything beyond trivial volume. It is the right answer if you are technical and want a repeatable job; it is a lot of work for a one-off.
3. Save them into a tool that exports
The pragmatic middle ground: stop relying on X to give your data back, and save posts into something that will. This is what SocialClipper does — click the extension on a post and it captures the whole thing (text, images, video, and the rest of a thread), then exports to:
- JSON — full structured data, for scripting or import elsewhere
- CSV — opens in Excel, Sheets or Numbers
- Markdown — drops straight into Obsidian or Notion, with the post text quoted and images embedded
The honest limitation: there is no bulk import of your existing X bookmarks, because X does not expose them. Anything already in your bookmarks list has to be clipped once. What this fixes is everything from today onwards.
The backlog is worth less than you think
Most people who worry about exporting a 900-bookmark backlog have not opened it in a year. Clip the handful you genuinely refer back to, let the rest go, and make sure new saves land somewhere you control. The habit matters more than the archive.
The extension is free for your first 50 posts, with no account needed to try it and no time limit.