Is it possible to develop a Chrome Bookmarks manager app that is not a chrome extension, i.e. that runs independently of the chrome browser?

Question

I understand that the chrome.bookmarks API is meant to be used to develop Chrome extensions (to be used, of course, within the Chrome browser) that access/manipulate my Chrome bookmarks. I have even used that API to write my own extension. However, I am looking for a way to develop an app that does the same thing, but is runnable independently from the Chrome Browser, e.g. as a native app, written in one's favorite language (Python, Java, etc.), that would run on one's favorite OS (Mac OS X, Linux, etc.). To that end, is there an API (e.g. a RESTful API, but I'm not picky) that enables me to access/manipulate my Chrome Bookmarks, which I would then access from outside of the Chrome Browser?

Answer 1

Another option is to load the Chrome Bookmarks file directly from:

~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks

It's a plain json file, so just load it, construct an Object and do whatever you can imagine.

We are pretty like it so far~