If you've ever tried to export your X (Twitter) bookmarks, you already know the bad news: X doesn't give you a built-in export option. No download button, no settings toggle, no API endpoint you can hit from your account page. Your bookmarks live inside X's app — and that's it.

That's a problem if you treat bookmarks like a personal knowledge base. A single account suspension, a bug, or a quiet feature deprecation can wipe years of saves. So in this guide, we'll cover every working way to back up and export your X bookmarks in 2026 — both manual and automated.

Why exporting your X bookmarks matters

Before we get into the how, let's be clear on the why. There are four reasons people want to export their bookmarks:

Backup against loss. Bookmarks aren't replicated anywhere outside X's servers. If you lose access to your account, you lose them all.
Search and rediscovery. X's bookmark UI is a flat, reverse-chronological list with no real search. Once you have hundreds, finding anything is impossible.
Portability. You may want to move your saved content into a notes app, a research tool, or a personal database.
Preservation. Tweets get deleted. Accounts get suspended. The post you bookmarked in 2023 might already be a 404. Exports let you preserve the content as it existed when you saved it.

Option 1: Export X bookmarks with XSaved (recommended)

The fastest way to export your X bookmarks in 2026 is to use a dedicated bookmark manager extension. XSaved is a free Chrome extension that does exactly this:

Install XSaved from the Chrome Web Store.
Open x.com/i/bookmarks and let XSaved sync your bookmarks (it's local-first — they never leave your browser).
Click Export in the XSaved UI and pick JSON or CSV.

That's it. You'll get a structured file containing every bookmark with the tweet text, author, date, URL, and any tags or notes you've added. JSON is best if you want to import the data into another tool. CSV is best if you want to open it in a spreadsheet.

XSaved also keeps a local cache, which means deleted tweets you previously bookmarked are still readable inside the extension — even if the original is gone from X. That alone is worth the install.

Option 2: Manual export (the hard way)

If you don't want to install anything, you can technically scrape your bookmarks page yourself, but it's painful:

Open x.com/i/bookmarks in your browser.
Scroll all the way to the bottom — X loads bookmarks lazily, so you have to keep scrolling until everything is loaded.
Use browser DevTools (Cmd/Ctrl + Option + I) to inspect the rendered HTML and copy out the tweet content.
Paste it somewhere structured.

This works for maybe 20–50 bookmarks. Beyond that, it's hours of manual work and you lose all metadata (date saved, tags, etc.). Not recommended unless you only have a handful.

Option 3: The X API (developer-only)

If you have a developer account, X's API does technically expose bookmarks via the GET /2/users/:id/bookmarks endpoint. You'll need:

A paid X API tier (the free tier no longer covers bookmarks).
OAuth 2.0 user context authentication.
A script to paginate through results and write them to disk.

This is the "official" way, but in 2026 the X API is expensive and rate-limited. For most people it's not worth it when a free Chrome extension does the same thing in two clicks.

What format should you export to?

Format	Best for
JSON	Importing into other tools, scripting, structured queries
CSV	Opening in Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion
HTML	Reading offline, sharing as a static archive

XSaved supports JSON and CSV out of the box. JSON is the more future-proof option — every metadata field is preserved exactly, and any tool can read it.

How often should you back up?

If you're a heavy bookmarker, once a month is a reasonable cadence. If you only save a few things a week, once a quarter is fine. The point is: don't wait until you need the backup to make one. Set a calendar reminder, run the export, and forget about it until next time.

TL;DR

X doesn't give you a way to export your bookmarks natively. The simplest 2026 solution is XSaved — install the Chrome extension, click export, done. If you'd rather not install anything, the X API works but costs money and effort. Manual scraping only works for tiny libraries.

Whichever option you pick: back up your bookmarks. They're more valuable than you think, and X can take them away tomorrow.