Perhaps you use Safari's Reading List feature to save various Web articles for later reading. But maybe your Reading List is so overwhelming that you'd prefer to export a simple list of URLs to keep track of—or to open in an app besides Safari.

Over at StackExchange, Rob Mathers offers up a quick Python script to do just that. Copy Mathers's Python script into a plain text document, and name it something like readinglist.py. Next, make it executable; you can use the Terminal command chmod +x readinglist.py.

Run the script—which loops through the proper section of the ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist file where those URLs are stored—and it will generate a list of the URLs in question. If you'd like to save the URLs to a file, use a command like ./readinglist.py > urls.txt to do so.