PowerShell Core Module for Configuring, Backing Up, and Managing Microsoft Edge Search Engine "Keywords"

NOTE: This project was inspired by erbanku/custom-search-engines-backup.

View the repo's Changelog for details on the progression of the codebase over time.

• Edge Custom Search Engines Settings URL: edge://settings/searchEngines

• Edge User Profile Directory: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge\Default

• Edge Database: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge\Default\Web Data

• Edge keywords table is held withing the sqlite database mentioned above.

• PowerShell Scripts:

  • Invoke-ExportEdgeKeywords.ps1: Export Microsoft Edge's keywords or custom searchEngines to a SQL file using sqlite3.
  • Invoke-ImportEdgeKeywords.ps1: Import Microsoft Edge's keywords or custom searchEngines from a SQL file using sqlite3.

• SQL Scripts:

  • bin/sql_import_script.sql: Ran by sqlite3 to import the EdgeKeywords.sql file into the Web Data database's keywords table.
  • bin/sql_export_script.sql: Ran by sqlite3 to export current Web Data database's keywords table to a SQL DDL script: EdgeKeywords.sql.

Output .sql files are exported to output/EdgeKeywords.sql. This same SQL script can be used for importing back into Edge.

Note that all scripts rely on a dependency for having sqlite3 installed on your system and on the PATH environment variable. Easy installation via scoop:

scoop install sqlite

Another useful tool for viewing the Web Data database contents is sqlitebrowser which can be installed via:

scoop install sqlitebrowser