Brave Browser History Search

[Acidham]

Brave History Search

 

Alfred workflow to search Brave Browser History

 

Required
Brave Browser (Chromium)

 

Download: https://github.com/Acidham/brave-history

[Acidham]

Added Brave Bookmarks Search....

[mattbovett]

Wow, thanks for the quick action! Of course adds another step to pulling up a website, but if I keep using Alfred I'll definitely use this. Thanks again.

[Acidham]

You are welcome, I had this in mind but never implemented it because I am using another Alfred solution to bookmark pages for being independent of Browsers

 

Do you think it would make sense to incorporate the Bookmarks results in history search or is it ok to separate?

[mattbovett]

Definitely separate. Guess there's no way to have it appear in the main results?

[Acidham]

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Definitely separate. Guess there's no way to have it appear in the main results?

 

No because there is some code required to get bookmarks and history entries. Main results in Alfred are indexed data which is not the case here. 

[alextran]

On 3/26/2019 at 3:58 AM, Acidham said:

You are welcome, I had this in mind but never implemented it because I am using another Alfred solution to bookmark pages for being independent of Browsers

 

now that i've switched from chrome to brave, i'm interested in your solution for browser-independent bookmarks.

 

while i could use your workflow, i'm intrigued by a browser-independent solution. 

[deanishe]

On 3/26/2019 at 2:36 PM, mattbovett said:

Guess there's no way to have it appear in the main results?

 

You would need to export each individual bookmark to a filetype the system understands, such as .URL files, and then point Alfred to the directory they're stored in.

[intafon]

Ah, nice one!... now I just want to edit it so that it opens from the browser from which it extracted the bookmark instead of the default browser. (I use Chrome for work stuff and Brave for personal...  😉

Edited February 22, 2020 by intafon

[Acidham]

@intafon Note, this WF is set to discontinued and replaces by this one https://github.com/Acidham/chromium-hist-bookmarks

[intafon]

Yup, I think that is the one I picked up -- the github page for the other one redirected to that one. Thanks!

Edited February 22, 2020 by intafon

[Skone]

You legend! Is there a way to remove the need for the bm script filter to just search for the bookmark direct, like with the native bookmark search?

[deanishe]

16 hours ago, bazerman said:

Is there a way to remove the need for the bm script filter

 

No. Script Filters can't dump their results into Alfred's default search. You can call it via a Hotkey instead.

[Chris Spiegl]

Just for those coming here, apparently this Workflow has been discontinued. However, there is a upgraded version which has multi browser support which can be found at: https://github.com/Acidham/chromium-hist-bookmarks

Its still made by the same person @Acidham but more feature rich.

 

But @deanishe on that note, I hope that this workflow / feature set of having more browsers supported for the "Web Bookmark" default integration would be greatly appreciated. Especially with more and more browsers being available which are better in so many ways than Chrome. Thank you ❤.

 

[deanishe]

1 hour ago, Chris Spiegl said:

But @deanishe on that note, I hope that this workflow / feature set of having more browsers supported for the "Web Bookmark" default integration would be greatly appreciated.

 

I have no influence over which built-in features Alfred does or doesn't get. I'm just repeating the Alfred team's long-held policy that no API means no native Alfred integration.

[Chris Spiegl]

@deanishe understood. One can still be hopeful - but I also understand your point in the other thread. For those wondering about supporting other "Web Bookmarks". Here is a thread with the feature request, which as noted by @deanishe , will not be implemented because there is no public api at this point and thus it is a guessing game. 

 

 

 

I appreciate your updates 🌸