How to backup and access iOS Safari's reading list?
Assuming you have your backup under $backup_dir, the reading list is stored in the sqlite database file $backup_dir/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.db, under the table bookmarks.

This table also contains favourites, which can be distinguished from reading list bookmarks by the fact they have no value for the column extra_attributes. Therefore, we can use the following query:

select url,title
from bookmarks
where url not like '' and extra_attributes not like '';


To import these in browsers, we can transform the entries into Netscape Bookmark File Format. You can use, for example, the following AWK script:

#!/usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN { print \
    "&lt;!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1&gt;\n" \
    "&lt;!--This is an automatically generated file.\n" \
    "It will be read and overwritten.\n" \
    "Do Not Edit! --&gt;\n" \
    "&lt;META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Content-Type\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\"&gt;\n" \
    "&lt;TITLE&gt;Bookmarks&lt;/TITLE&gt;\n" \
    "&lt;H1&gt;Bookmarks&lt;/H1&gt;\n" \
    "&lt;DL&gt;&lt;p&gt;"
}
/^[[:space:]]*$/ { next }
{
    split($0, parts, "|")
    url = parts[1]
    title = separator = ""
    for (i=2; i in parts; i++) {
        title = title separator parts[i]
        separator = "|"
    }
    print "&lt;DT&gt;&lt;A HREF=\"" url "\"&gt;" title "&lt;/A&gt;"
}
END { print "&lt;/DL&gt;&lt;p&gt;" }


In sum, you can do all this with the following bash "one-liner":

echo "
select url,title
from bookmarks
where url not like '' and extra_attributes not like '';
" | \
sqlite "$backup_dir"/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.db | \
./"$awk_script" &gt; bookmarks.html