fruityth1ng Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) This is decidedly low tech, but this is working for me (albeit, without any live text prediction) - and the other flows in this post, I can't get to work. I got them to *run* by adding a ~ to the "/Library/..." bit in the PHP though. <Keyword>+argument >>> chrome://bookmarks/?#q={query} (Force open in Chrome) http://www.nimbling.com/temp/Chrome%20Bookmarks.alfredworkflow Edited April 11, 2013 by fruityth1ng Link to comment
jdfwarrior Posted April 11, 2013 Author Share Posted April 11, 2013 This is decidedly low tech, but this is working for me (albeit, without any live text prediction) - and the other flows in this post, I can't get to work. I got them to *run* by adding a ~ to the "/Library/..." bit in the PHP though. <Keyword>+argument >>> chrome://bookmarks/?#q={query} (Force open in Chrome) http://www.nimbling.com/temp/Chrome%20Bookmarks.alfredworkflow In the process of rewriting this workflow. It was one of the first I made for Alfred 2 Link to comment
fruityth1ng Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 In the process of rewriting this workflow. It was one of the first I made for Alfred 2 I meant mine is low tech, not yours But I would much rather use yours once I can Link to comment
mercoby Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Actually, I was looking to make it so I could browse a specific folder of bookmarks, but no others. I've adapted David's workflow for my own purposes (imported that folder of bookmarks into Chrome, and load in Safari with the modified keyword), and it does precisely what I wanted. It's here, if you're interested. This is exactly what I was looking for! But your link actually links to "TV Episodes Wikipedia List"... any chance you can link the chrome bookmark folder search workflow? Thanks! Link to comment
GamerChase Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 This is exactly what I was looking for! But your link actually links to "TV Episodes Wikipedia List"... any chance you can link the chrome bookmark folder search workflow? Thanks! I just tested it by bookmarking this page in Chrome, and using the workflow to pull up the bookmark. It should work on anything in Chrome, you just need to change the descriptors for your own purposes. Besides, this was never intended to take away from David's original workflow. Just a customization that fit my own purposes. Link to comment
ObjT Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 (edited) Any news on this? I love it, but the first version was a bit slow for me, and I didn't like that I needed to spell out whole words to find something:-) EDIT: Ah, I just realized the change by Jb_Bryant above does exactly what I need! Thanks! Edited April 16, 2013 by ObjT Link to comment
Guest nXqd Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Do you have this workflow uploaded somewhere [ github preferred ]. I want to contribute a bit to change browser to Chrome or Chrome Canary Thanks for great extension Link to comment
Sridhar Katakam Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I personally think you should revert the workflow to the matching algorithm it used before. I can't stand how matching works now. Anyways, I added in a fallback search option to the workflow if anyone is interested: http://cl.ly/1X1z1f211f1L I am trying this but it's not working for me. When I type the name of a Chrome bookmark, it doesn't come up in Alfred. Any ideas? Link to comment
Jb_Bryant Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I am trying this but it's not working for me. When I type the name of a Chrome bookmark, it doesn't come up in Alfred. Any ideas? Are you referring to the fallback option in particular? You have to actually add it as a fallback and then press enter to trigger the workflow like you normally would: http://cl.ly/image/250Y3U2E3v1x Link to comment
Sridhar Katakam Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I added it only now: I have a bookmark named Readability. I bring up Alfred, type reada and select the option to search Chrome bookmarks, and do not see the bookmark. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Link to comment
Jb_Bryant Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I added it only now: I have a bookmark named Readability. I bring up Alfred, type reada and select the option to search Chrome bookmarks, and do not see the bookmark. Any idea what I am doing wrong? That looks like an issue with the original workflow. All I did to it is add a fallback option. I don't know enough about programming to know why it's not working. Link to comment
Sridhar Katakam Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Does the original workflow work for you? Link to comment
Jb_Bryant Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Does the original workflow work for you? Yep. Works just fine. Is your bookmarks path in the location where the PHP script looks? It looks at ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks Link to comment
Sridhar Katakam Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 aaaaaaaa I got it. I was thinking that the workflow would search Chrome bookmark names, it is the actual URLs that are searched and shown!! The original workflow works fine now that I know this. Link to comment
Jb_Bryant Posted April 26, 2013 Share Posted April 26, 2013 All - I saw this posted on Twitter and personally I like this solution a lot better than a Chrome workflow. It uses a utility called Brow to make Chrome and Firefox bookmarks searchable in Spotlight: http://blog.timschroeder.net/2013/04/15/Bring-Brow-to-Alfred/ Sridhar Katakam and JoeyBloggs 2 Link to comment
Sridhar Katakam Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 All - I saw this posted on Twitter and personally I like this solution a lot better than a Chrome workflow. It uses a utility called Brow to make Chrome and Firefox bookmarks searchable in Spotlight: http://blog.timschroeder.net/2013/04/15/Bring-Brow-to-Alfred/ Works great! Thank you. Link to comment
W4rl0ck Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 The workflow stopped working for me, looks like it generates a php warning: php -f bookmarks.php -- "tv" Warning: SQLite3::exec(): near "Two": syntax error in /Users/username/Dropbox/MacJunctions/alfred2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.65680E36-530D-4E19-83E3-7629D74E3345/extension_utils.php on line 269 <?xml version="1.0"?> Link to comment
JoeyBloggs Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 All - I saw this posted on Twitter and personally I like this solution a lot better than a Chrome workflow. It uses a utility called Brow to make Chrome and Firefox bookmarks searchable in Spotlight: http://blog.timschroeder.net/2013/04/15/Bring-Brow-to-Alfred/ Thanks for this. Link to comment
politicus Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 I just tested it by bookmarking this page in Chrome, and using the workflow to pull up the bookmark. It should work on anything in Chrome, you just need to change the descriptors for your own purposes. Besides, this was never intended to take away from David's original workflow. Just a customization that fit my own purposes. I don't get how I can search in a specific bookmark's folder. I thought I would click on the link, download a new workflow and would be done Could you be more precise on how I can accomplish it. Thank you. Link to comment
almai Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I have an issue with Google Chrome Profiles. Since the Chrome Bookmark Search Workflow only searches in $home.'/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks ... it doesn't show bookmarks from other profiles. So I had to customize the path in bookmarks.php by hand. Link to comment
manjaro Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Hi David, I also see the search is not best optimised. Did you get a chance to follow up on this and fix it. Link to comment
rolandschuetz Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 How can I fix this error? "Unable to locate bookmarks file" Thanks, Roland Link to comment
jfehlis Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 It worked ones for me and now it does not show any results. Any ideas? Thanks! Link to comment
Jb_Bryant Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Brow is the way to go for this guys. Only downside is you can't cmd-c to copy the link Link to comment
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