a CLI chrome bookmark parser, with tab completion.
[sudo] gem install booker
booker --install
Alternatively, the installation can be done incrementally:
booker -i comp # adding tab completion (ZSH only)
booker -i conf # generate default config (~/.booker.yml)
booker -i book # locating bookmarks file
booker [your_search_term]<TAB>
booker github.com/jeremywrnr/booker
booker how to use the internet
This is a tool that allows you to tab complete (in zsh only) google chrome (gc) bookmarks, and then open them in the browser of your choice. gc stores the users bookmarks in a large json file locally, so this can be read/parsed by the tool, and combined with an autocompletion mechanism (i used a zsh script, in completion) to easily open your bookmarks from the command line.
I was inspired by the kill autocompletion that ships with oh-my-zsh, where
you are shown a list of the current processes, and you can tab through to
select which one you'd like to kill. The completion actually is somewhat
complex - if I search for 'System', it will only show processes whose name or
group match against that, but it tab through these matches numeric process IDs,
which is the argument that kill actually takes. I learned that zsh
autocompletion has a large learning curve, despite the good amount of
documentation out there on it.
You can also edit the ~/.booker.yml config file manually.
booker will also try to determine which command should be used to open your
browser based on your operating system, but you can also explicitly choose
which command you want use, by adding the following:
:browser: 'your-browser-command '
There are some tests in /spec. If you clone this repo you can run them with
rake. There is also a Makefile to install the gem, so you can run make and
that will build the gem locally. To develop the zsh completion script, clone
this repo, and run this command in /completion:
make && unfunction _booker && autoload -U _booker
- parse all args, then if number open bookmark
- tab completion for other shells (bash, fish)
- support opening multiple bookmarks: 1 1 1
- fix failure on link w/ parens
- implement more rspec testing
- support other browsers? (firefox, safari)