I want to make it easier for a user to import bookmarks to my server. Is there anyway to automate this process using javascript to obtain the user's bookmarks? I'm assuming the browser has to have this feature - and I'm not sure if any browser does due to the inherent security risk.
Nope, that's not possible for security/privacy reasons. The only way is to ask them explicitly through form input to give you but I don't think you want to do that.