Home/ Questions/Q 8174165
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-06T22:22:53+00:00

I want to access the following path on Ubuntu in my python code: ~/.mozilla/firefox/dh4ytbdj.default/bookmarkbackups

  • 0

I want to access the following path on Ubuntu in my python code:

~/.mozilla/firefox/dh4ytbdj.default/bookmarkbackups

which contains Firefox bookmarks

The problem is that the part before the ‘.default‘ is different for every user and machine.
Is there a way that I can specify a general path for this directory and make python access it and retrieve the desired file?

And is it possible to implement the ‘~‘ in python code to access current user’s home?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team
    >>> import os
>>> os.path.expanduser('~/.mozilla/firefox/dh4ytbdj.default/bookmarkbackups')
'/home/username/.mozilla/firefox/dh4ytbdj.default/bookmarkbackups'

    For system-wide access of personal firefox directories (with sufficient rights) you could try:

    >>> import glob
>>> glob.glob('/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarkbackups')

    As @NedBatchelder noted, this can be combined into one command:

    import os, glob
next(glob.iglob(os.path.expanduser('~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarkbackups')))

    which returns one (if existing) path.

    • 0