How can I export shortcut sets and shortcut links in Drupal 7?
Finally, managed to programmatically create the shortcut sets and links with the following php script:

&lt;?php
echo 'populating shortcuts...';
$shortcut_set = new stdClass();
$shortcut_set-&gt;title = 'Default';
$shortcut_set-&gt;set_name = 'shortcut-set-1';
$shortcut_set-&gt;links = array(
    array('link_path' =&gt; 'admin', 'link_title' =&gt; 'Admin',),
);
shortcut_set_save($shortcut_set);
echo ' shortcuts population finished';
?&gt;


as mentioned in this drupal post.

A also had to apply this patch in shortcut module, which fixes the shortcut_set_save function called by the script.