Tested on VSCode 1.77.3. Cautions! May become invalid in a future version.

VSCode Web (like VSCode Remote, GitHub Codespaces) saves user data in IndexedDB which will be lost if you clear the browser storage.

This code snippet enables you to export and import the user data. Run on DevTools, please save your work before doing anything!

Code

(async function exportData() {
  const json = {};
  const decoder = new TextDecoder();
  for (const { name: dbName } of await indexedDB.databases()) {
    json[dbName] = {};
    const req = indexedDB.open(dbName);
    await new Promise((r) => (req.onsuccess = r));
    for (const storeName of req.result.objectStoreNames) {
      json[dbName][storeName] = {};
      const transaction = req.result.transaction(storeName);
      const store = transaction.objectStore(storeName);
      const keysReq = store.getAllKeys();
      const valuesReq = store.getAll();
      await new Promise((r) => (transaction.oncomplete = r));
      for (const k of keysReq.result) {
        const v = valuesReq.result.shift();
        const item = { type: v.constructor.name }; // String | Uint8Array
        const str = item.type === "String" ? v : decoder.decode(v);
        item.value = encodeURIComponent(str);
        json[dbName][storeName][k] = item;
      }
    }
  }
  const link = document.createElement("a");
  link.download = `vscode-web_${Date.now()}.json`;
  link.href = "data:text/json," + encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(json));
  link.click();
})();

(async function importData() {
  const input = document.createElement("input");
  input.type = "file";
  input.click();
  await new Promise((r) => (input.onchange = r));
  const reader = new FileReader();
  reader.readAsText(input.files[0]);
  await new Promise((r) => (reader.onload = r));
  const encoder = new TextEncoder();
  for (const [dbName, dbData] of Object.entries(JSON.parse(reader.result))) {
    const req = indexedDB.open(dbName);
    req.onupgradeneeded = ({ target: { result: db } }) =>
      Object.keys(dbData).forEach((name) => db.createObjectStore(name));
    await new Promise((r) => (req.onsuccess = r));
    for (const [storeName, storeData] of Object.entries(dbData)) {
      const transaction = req.result.transaction(storeName, "readwrite");
      const store = transaction.objectStore(storeName);
      store.clear(); // Avoid config conflict
      for (const [key, { type, value }] of Object.entries(storeData)) {
        const str = decodeURIComponent(value);
        store.put(type === "String" ? str : encoder.encode(str), key);
      }
      await new Promise((r) => (transaction.oncomplete = r));
    }
  }
  location.reload();
})();

• To reduce backup size, try to delete log storages manually.

Change Log

20220107

• Shorter file name.

20210729

• Reduce code.

20210728

• Update for VSCode 1.58.

20210405

• First version.