Chrome Bookmark Search Workflow

[fruityth1ng]

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

[jdfwarrior]

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

[fruityth1ng]

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

[mercoby]

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! 

[GamerChase]

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.

[ObjT]

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

[Guest nXqd]

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 

[Sridhar Katakam]

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?

[Jb_Bryant]

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

[Sridhar Katakam]

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?

[Jb_Bryant]

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. 

[Sridhar Katakam]

Does the original workflow work for you?

[Jb_Bryant]

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

[Sridhar Katakam]

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.

[Jb_Bryant]

No mine searches names…

[Jb_Bryant]

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]

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.

[W4rl0ck]

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"?>

[JoeyBloggs]

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.

[politicus]

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.

[almai]

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.

[manjaro]

Hi David,

 

I also see the search is not best optimised. Did you get a chance to follow up on this and fix it.

[rolandschuetz]

How can I fix this error?

"Unable to locate bookmarks file"

 

Thanks,

Roland

[jfehlis]

It worked ones for me and now it does not show any results. Any ideas? Thanks!

[Jb_Bryant]

Brow is the way to go for this guys. Only downside is you can't cmd-c to copy the link