Exporting from Bitwarden

When managing collections and organizations, it’s useful sometimes to only export a single collection. This must be done by CLI.

bw config server https://vault.domain.com

bw login

export BW_SESSION="ABC...."

bw unlock

bw sync

bw list organizations | jq .

bw list collections --organizationid $ORG_ID | jq .

bw list items --collectionid $COLLECTION_ID > filename.json

The exported file has all items (including passkeys) except for attachments.

The json file must be properly conditioned for import. See Bitwarden’s documentation for more information.

To condition:

  1. Add metadata to the beginning of the file:
{
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "UUID",
      "organizationId": "UUID",
      "name": "Collection Name",
      "externalId": null
    }
  ],
 	"items":
  1. Add a single closing bracket to the end of the file:
...
}
  1. Import into Bitwarden/Vaultwarden as type Bitwarden (json)