Chromium Bookmarks and History Search

[Acidham]

https://github.com/Acidham/chromium-hist-bookmarks

[Acidham]

v0.9 supports additional Chromium Browsers: Chromium, Brave/Dev, Google Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera

Edited October 5, 2019 by Acidham

[40-02]

@Acidham, thank you! I'm going to use it a lot!

[Acidham]

With new version 0.9.9 I added support for Firefox History. Bookmarks will follow

 

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[Acidham]

Finally version 1.0 including Firefox History AND Bookmarks, plus:

• Improved search: Now supporting white-space and & search
• Now supports special character search like german umlauts

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[Acidham]

New Release (2.1.1) fixes slow search when searching across all browser histories.

In addition, within WF environment variables, the search for each browser can be enabled or disabled optionally.

 

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Edited June 29, 2020 by Acidham

[40-02]

@Acidham, thanks for your workflow! I use it quite often. 

Can you please consider such feature request: to add the keyword which will list results sorted not by number of visits, but by recency - when the url was visited last. 

I believe it can be handy. 

[Acidham]

9 minutes ago, 40-02 said:

@Acidham, thanks for your workflow! I use it quite often. 

Can you please consider such feature request: to add the keyword which will list results sorted not by number of visits, but by recency - when the url was visited last. 

I believe it can be handy. 

 

You mean triggered by a separat keyword e.g. `bhs` which sorts based on recently visitied?

[40-02]

7 minutes ago, Acidham said:

You mean triggered by a separat keyword e.g. `bhs` which sorts based on recently visitied?

yes!

[Acidham]

Done, but I added sort_recent flag in Workflow settings. If set to True search results will be sorted based on recent visits otherwise on number of visits. 

[40-02]

7 hours ago, Acidham said:

Done, but I added sort_recent flag in Workflow settings. If set to True search results will be sorted based on recent visits otherwise on number of visits. 

Many thanks! 🙏🙏🙏

[Acidham]

Upgrade Workflow:

• Added ability to ignore URLs in history with a certain domain
• Added Alfred 5 “configure workflow” feature to set up env variables
• Performance improvement when caching favicons
• Remove support for Firefox Browser

GitHub Release

[modusop]

Hi @Acidham - I've been using this workflow for a while now and really appreciate it. Recently (and I'm not sure if this is associated with moving to Alfred 5 or v3.x of the workflow) the workflow has stopped working for me (i.e. no results returned).

 

Alfred sometimes (seems to be inconsistent & I'm not sure how to reliably recreate) now returns the following error:

Quote

 

Unable to run task!

Reason: working directory doesn't exist.

 

/bin/bash

 

Check that the selected language exists on your system.

 

If you're syncing Alfred's preferences, also check that all related workflow files exist locally.

 

Related Workflow Info...

Name: 'Chromium Bookmarks and History Search'

Folder:/Users/gordonbazeley/src/gjb/alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.39ACD55A-6B54-4EF0-B23F-3E13AD9E34EF

 

... any ideas on how to resolve please? I tried changing /bin/bash to /bin/zsh with no change in behaviour

 

Many thanks,

  Gordon

[Acidham]

Strange, did you try on terminal where bash?

Anyhow, I changed it and released the WF. let me know

[modusop]

Thanks @Acidham In terminal I get the following

Quote

$ where bash
-bash: where: command not found
$ locate bash

WARNING: The locate database (/var/db/locate.database) does not exist.
To create the database, run the following command:

  sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

Please be aware that the database can take some time to generate; once
the database has been created, this message will no longer appear.

$ which bash
/opt/homebrew/bin/bash

The last command returns the same result after

chsh -s /bin/bash

 

I'm getting the same (lack of) result with the new version I'm afraid i.e. 

[Acidham]

I changed to shebang to /bin/zsh. Therefore, what result do you get with where zsh?

What macOS version are you using? Even /bin/bash/ should be available at least.

[modusop]

3 hours ago, Acidham said:

I changed to shebang to /bin/zsh. Therefore, what result do you get with where zsh?

What macOS version are you using? Even /bin/bash/ should be available at least.

I'm using 12.3.1.

 

I deleted the workflow and reinstalled ... and now it's working fine. Thanks again for your help 🙂

[andy4222]

@AcidhamThank you for this workflow. Maybe it's asking too much but any way the performance of this workflow can be improved? Once I trigger the history search, it takes a few seconds for it to return the results.

There used to be another workflow (built-in Go) that would return the history results instantly, but it was only for Chrome 😐

 

I of course prefer this workflow as it has extra features like last visit and hits. LMK if I can help in any way

 

https://github.com/pasela/alfred-chrome-history
 

Doesn't seem like a laptop issue. I'm on M1 Pro

Edited June 7, 2023 by andy4222

[Acidham]

11 hours ago, andy4222 said:

but any way the performance of this workflow can be improved

I am on M1 Pro as well, but search works superfast. Improving performance implies I need to be able to reproduce first or being able to narrow down to one of the browsers. 

 

I suggest starting, narrowing the problem down to one Browser. Delete history files and start from scratch and see when performance gets worse, etc. 

 

Once reproducible, I am happy to look into the issue. 

[andy4222]

Sure. I tried wiping the history from Chrome and only have Chrome and edge enabled, still, there is a lag, probably 2-3 seconds before results show up. The results are accurate though.

 

[taofuns]

is there any way to search safari bookmarks and history in the same time like spotlight do?

Most of times, when I didn’t add one website to bookmark, I can’t get the search result even if I visit that website frequently.

I’ve asked @alfredapp this question on twitter, and got the workflow ”Chromium Bookmarks and History Search”, I’ve installed it, but this workflow allows the search of the two with separate keywords, so how to tweak it to show both at once?

I tried modify the trigger keyword to the same, but it didn’t work.

I am not familiar with creating workflow, so please show step by step.

[json12]

Works great! Thank you. Couple suggestions:

 

1. Is it possible to add search for open tabs? 

2. Anyway to show icon of browser instead favicons of the link? 

[Acidham]

On 6/13/2023 at 11:09 PM, taofuns said:

is there any way to search safari bookmarks and history in the same time like spotlight do?

Most of times, when I didn’t add one website to bookmark, I can’t get the search result even if I visit that website frequently.

I’ve asked @alfredapp this question on twitter, and got the workflow ”Chromium Bookmarks and History Search”, I’ve installed it, but this workflow allows the search of the two with separate keywords, so how to tweak it to show both at once?

I tried modify the trigger keyword to the same, but it didn’t work.

I am not familiar with creating workflow, so please show step by step.

 

Currently, there is no way to merge both searches into one keyword.

[Acidham]

On 6/27/2023 at 12:07 PM, json12 said:

Works great! Thank you. Couple suggestions:

 

1. Is it possible to add search for open tabs? 

2. Anyway to show icon of browser instead favicons of the link? 

 

1. Tab search is not supported for History and Bookmark search. There are other workflows available to perform Tab search.
2. What is the value of the browser icon? The use case is to have an independent search across all browsers in use, but it always opens in the default browser or if you press CMD + ENTER you can open in another browser. 

[json12]

1. It would be nice to be able to search Open Tabs, History, and Bookmarks for Arc in one app. Do you know which one supports this?

 

2. I use Arc browser on Mac and Safari on iOS and I’d like to know which browser I used to visit that particular webpage. Currently it’s showing dark Chrome icon and not many use Chrome.