How to export Twitter bookmarks when X has no button

If you want to export Twitter bookmarks, before you leave X, to clean them up, or to turn years of saved posts into a reading list, there's no button for it. X's help page on bookmarks covers saving, viewing and removing them, and nothing else. This guide covers what X does offer, then the route that works: saving your bookmarks to a sheet by hand, one screen at a time, and cleaning the result into columns.

Not with a feature of X's. Per X's help, you bookmark a post with its Bookmark icon and see everything you saved in the Bookmarks tab of the navigation menu. Your bookmarks are private: X says they are viewable only to you. The page describes no export, so what you can take away is what that tab shows you.

One warning before you start: the ⋯ menu at the top of your Bookmarks lets you remove all your bookmarks at once. Stay clear of it until your copy is saved.

X's page on downloading your archive, read on 27 October 2026, doesn't mention bookmarks. It describes the archive as a snapshot of your X information starting with your first post, requested from Settings and privacy, under Your X data in your account settings, and says preparing it may take a few days. Since the page doesn't list bookmarks among what you get, don't count on the archive for them: the copy by hand below is the route you can rely on.

1. Open Bookmarks in a browser on a computer. A wide window shows more posts per screen, and so fewer rounds of copying.
2. Copy a screen at a time. Click just before the first post, scroll down a screen or two, Shift-click just after the last post you can see, and copy.
3. Paste into a Raw tab as plain text (Ctrl+Shift+V, or Cmd+Shift+V on a Mac), each paste under the last.
4. Repeat to the end. The list loads more as you scroll, and on a long one the top can drop away, which is why you copy in chunks rather than all at once.

For a few dozen bookmarks this takes minutes. For thousands, set aside an evening, or keep only the ones worth reading again as you go.

A pasted feed comes out as one long column: a name, a handle, a date, the text, then the counts, and the next post. To turn it into rows with the name, date and text in columns of their own, use the fold-back method for lists laid out as cards in our guide to exporting a list from any site. Posts with a picture or a quote have extra lines, so scan a column that should look the same all the way down, such as the handle, to find where the rows shift.

The links don't survive a paste. For the posts you want to keep, open the post, copy its address from the address bar, and paste it into a Link column. Then remove duplicates (two pastes that overlap repeat a few posts) and save the sheet as CSV.

X lists bookmark folders as a Premium feature, included from its Basic tier. If you use them, each folder is a list of its own: open one, copy it as above, and add a Folder column to your sheet with the folder's name, so the rows from every folder can share one sheet and still be told apart.

If you're clearing out your X account, save your bookmarks before anything else: once your posts or your account are gone, so is the place to read them. Our guide to how to delete all tweets covers the rest of the cleanup, starting with your archive.

Some services connect to your X account to do this. Check what they can access before you connect one, and revoke its access when you're done.

Tabless is a browser extension that builds what you ask for from the sites you allow; nothing is typed or submitted without your OK. It isn't open yet. An export like this one is the kind of job we're building it for: asking in plain words for "my bookmarks, with the author, the date, the text and a link to each", and getting it as a CSV or XLSX file.

It's designed to read through the session your browser already has, so there are no API keys or passwords to hand over, and to ask before it reads each site. It's for lists you're entitled to see, for your own work, and the site's own rules still apply. You sign in to Tabless with a Wix account.

No. X says bookmarks are private and viewable only to you, in your account.

No. Bookmarks are private to the account that saved them, so the only bookmarks you can save to a sheet are your own.

Not yet. Tabless isn't open, and exports like this one are among the jobs we're building it for. Join the waitlist, and we'll let you know when you can try Tabless.