Mozilla shut Pocket down on July 8, 2025, and stopped serving exports on November 12, 2025. If you saved your archive before that deadline, this is how to get those links into Blackmount.
What your export looks like
Most people received a pocket.zip by email. Inside are CSV files holding the URL, title, save date, and tags for every item you saved. A smaller group exported earlier from the legacy getpocket.com/export page and has an ril_export.html file instead — that is already a Netscape bookmarks file, so skip straight to the upload step.
Blackmount's import page (sign in first) accepts bookmarks HTML, the same format Chrome, Firefox, and Safari produce when you export bookmarks. A ZIP of CSVs needs one conversion step first.
Route 1: convert the CSV (best for large libraries)
- Unzip pocket.zip.
- Run an open-source converter over the CSV files — for example pocket-to-bookmark, which turns a Pocket CSV into Netscape bookmarks HTML.
- Confirm the output is a single bookmarks.html file, and sanity-check it before uploading: the number of links in the HTML should roughly match the number of rows in the CSV. Pocket exports often split archived and unread items into separate CSVs, and converting only one of them is the most common way people lose half their library in transit.
- Open the import page in Blackmount.
- Upload the file. Your saved links appear in Blackmount, tags included.
A large library imports as one flat set. If you would rather it arrive already organized, split the CSV by tag before converting and run one file per topic — you end up with a session per subject instead of a single wall of links.
Route 2: batch it by hand (no tools)
Fine for libraries under roughly 200 links, and it has the side benefit of letting you group items into meaningful sessions as you go.
- Unzip pocket.zip and open the CSV in Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers.
- Copy a batch of 20 to 30 URLs from the URL column.
- Open them as tabs — paste and go one at a time, or use a multi-URL opener extension.
- Click the Blackmount extension and save all open tabs as one named session.
- Repeat with the next batch until the list is empty.
What survives the move
| Pocket data | Outcome |
|---|---|
| URLs | Imported as saved tabs |
| Titles | Preserved |
| Tags | Mapped to Blackmount tags |
| Date saved | Mapped to session creation date |
| Highlights | Not in the export — proprietary, no standard format |
| Cached article text | Not in the export — Pocket stored it server-side |
| Read / unread status | No equivalent; Blackmount organizes by session, not a read queue |
If you missed the deadline
There is no recovery path. Mozilla retained nothing after November 12, 2025. What you can do is stop depending on a single service's export button: Blackmount saves sessions with their tabs, notes, and voice recordings, works offline in Guest Mode with no account, and lets you export at any time. Weighing replacements more broadly? See the 2026 Pocket alternatives comparison.
Stuck on a conversion, or holding an export format not covered here? Email support@blackmount.ai — we update this guide as new Pocket export formats turn up.