List all bookmarks added with hypertarget for named destinations

Question

I add bookmarks to all sections in my project in the following way:
section{Introduction}
hypertarget{intro}{}

Some text.

I use these bookmarks later in URL links https://example.com/my-document.pdf#intro.
Every time I create an URL referring to a certain section, I need to go back to my LaTeX project and look up the bookmark name as I have too many of them. I would like to have a list of all my bookmarks (ideally juxtaposed with the section names they mark).
I know that the list of all bookmarks can be generated with pdfinfo on the command line. However, along with the bookmarks I need, I get all kinds of other bookmarks added by LaTeX and irrelevant for me:
   1 [ XYZ   57  785 null      ] "Doc-Start"
   1 [ XYZ   56  823 null      ] "page.1"
   2 [ XYZ   57  711 null      ] "section.1"
   3 [ XYZ   57  751 null      ] "intro"
   5 [ XYZ   57  666 null      ] "lstlisting.-1"
   5 [ XYZ  104  668 null      ] "lstnumber.-1.1"
   6 [ XYZ   57  785 null      ] "subsection.1.1"

So is it possible to generate a list of bookmarks created by me with hypertarget? I will be happy with any: the command line solution or a LaTeX macro.

f-hollow · Answer

I tried tinkering around myself and came up with some dirty but working solution thanks to this thread and this thread. I wish I could come up with a better one but need more experience. Still hope that somebody might offer a more elegant solution.
My dirty solution:
documentclass{article}

% Corrects issues with compatibility of XeLaTeX
% and hyperref to create bookmarks
special{dvipdfmx:config C 0x0010}

usepackage{hyperref}
usepackage{newfloat}% for listof
usepackage{comment}

%begin{comment}
    % temp code for list of bookmarks
    DeclareFloatingEnvironment[fileext=bkmrk]{bookmark}
    makeatletter
    newcommand*{currentname}{@currentlabelname}
    renewcommand*{hypertarget}[2]{
      addcontentsline{bkmrk}{bookmark}{currentname qquad | qquad #1}%
    }
    makeatother
    AtBeginDocument{listofbookmarks}
    % end of temp code
%end{comment}

begin{document}

newpage
section{First Section}
hypertarget{first}{}

newpage
section{Second Section}
hypertarget{second}{}

newpage
section{Third Section}
hypertarget{third}{}

end{document}

It gives me this:

Just before compiling my final PDF, I do the following:

Uncomment the code for list of bookmarks
Compile the PDF to generate the list of bookmarks
Copy the bookmarks into Excel (this step requires a lot of text editing)
Comment out the code for list of bookmarks

Then I compile the PDF for publishing.

List all bookmarks added with hypertarget for named destinations

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