konoui / alfred-bookmarks

alfred bookmarks

The workflow is a cross-browser bookmark searcher across Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.

Install

• Download and open the workflow with terminal.

$ curl -O -L https://github.com/konoui/alfred-bookmarks/releases/latest/download/alfred-bookmarks.alfredworkflow && open alfred-bookmarks.alfredworkflow

• Build the workflow on your computer.

$ make package
$ ls
alfred-bookmarks.alfredworkflow (snip)

Usage

Please type bs <query> and select your desired bookmark to open on default web browser.

Customize Configuration

Please create configuration file as .alfred-bookmarks.yaml in home directory (~/) or config directory (~/.config/) if you want to customize.

firefox:
    enable: true
    profile_name: "default"
    profile_path: "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles"
chrome:
    enable: true
safari:
    enable: false
remove_duplicates: true

If the configuration file does not exist, the workflow try to use available bookmark files of web browsers.

Feature

• Supports fuzzy search.
• Supports following web browsers.
  • Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Safari
• Supports options
  • filter by folder name.
    • e.g. bs -f <folder-name> <query>
  • clear cache data.
    • e.g. bs --clear <query>

Limitation

Firefox

The workflow reads latest bookmark data from ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<xxxxx>.default/bookmarkbackups/ directory. If you register a web site to bookmarks, the workflow does not search the web site immediately.

License

MIT License.