Search Google Chrome/Chromium bookmarks

[mdreizin]

This workflow helps search your Google Chrome/Chromium bookmarks realy fast with unicode support.

 

For more info please see: http://mdreizin.github.io/alfred-workflows/#chrome-bookmarks

[LiamW]

Works excellent. Just had to edit the path as I don't use the default profile in Chrome as I created a new one.

 

But flawless so far, so thanks. The other ones always gave issues.

[samvlu]

Works perfectly!

Finally, Chrome Bookmarks done right!

Good work sir.

[mixterdee]

I have been using Brow for OS X for my bookmarks as it works well with Alfred and, IMO, is better than current bookmark workflow, but I have just tried this and will use this instead of Brow. Thanks.

[mdreizin]

Thank you very much for your feedbacks.

 

I'm going to add profile support within a couple of days.

[40-02]

It works just perfect!

 

Is there any way to add support of chrome's history? I would almost forget about url bar in chrome, If I have history in alfred. 

[dan_djorgi]

Great workflow, thanks mdreizin! 

[mdreizin]

It works just perfect!

 

Is there any way to add support of chrome's history? I would almost forget about url bar in chrome, If I have history in alfred. 

 

 

I did quick research and here is some technical details:

 

Google Chrome/Chromium application locks "History" database  when it is running and it means that if you try to open and search something via database you will get:

$ sqlite3 "/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History"
SQLite version 3.7.12 2012-04-03 19:43:07
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite> select * from urls;
Error: database is locked
sqlite> 

From my point of view this feature wouldn't useful, because you have to remember to close the application before searching.

[phyllisstein]

 

 

I did quick research and here is some technical details:

 

Google Chrome/Chromium application locks "History" database  when it is running and it means that if you try to open and search something via database you will get:

$ sqlite3 "/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History"
SQLite version 3.7.12 2012-04-03 19:43:07
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite> select * from urls;
Error: database is locked
sqlite> 

From my point of view this feature wouldn't useful, because you have to remember to close the application before searching.

 

 

Thanks so much for this workflow! (Also, your Alfred site is lovely.) I worked around this problem with my Things workflow by copying the database to a temporary directory, extracting what I needed, then deleting it; it's a hack, but it did the trick with Things.

[twinpeaks]

Truly impressed. Well thought out and executed without too much hype following the process.

 

verdict: BADASS - Thank you!!

[raguay.customct]

The workflow link does not work. Does anyone have a copy?

[mdreizin]

The workflow link does not work. Does anyone have a copy?

Could you please try again? Probably there was something wrong with github.io site.

[raguay.customct]

Could you please try again? Probably there was something wrong with github.io site.

 

It worked this time. Thanks.

[stonefury]

Works great. Perfect.

[politicus]

Amazing (Fastest) Alfred's Google Chrome workflow!

 

Some feature requests:

 

Is there a way one can search in a specific folder (ie typing workflow keyword, then the folder's name, then the bookmark we are looking for)?

Would be very useful when one have 10000+ bookmarks classified in small folders of 20 or so bookmarks.

 

Would love to be able to delete one or a selection of bookmarks from Alfred 

Edited November 24, 2013 by politicus

[pavel.sakun]

Didn't dig into implementaion, but this one seems to be copying chrome's db and...just works https://github.com/manifestinteractive/alfred-workflows/tree/master/Chrome%20History

[politicus]

This one browse through your history not your bookmarks.

[mdreizin]

I have completely refactored it and you can grab new version from https://github.com/mdreizin/chrome-bookmarks-alfred-workflow/releases

[kitharington]

Actually searching Google is pretty easy. Just type what you’re interested in finding into the search box on the Google web site or into your toolbar!

 

[hstandaert]

Hi,

 

Is there a way to change the keyword that triggers this workflow? 

I'd like to change the 'canary' keyword to 'b' or something like that. 

[mdreizin]

54 minutes ago, hstandaert said:

Hi,

 

Is there a way to change the keyword that triggers this workflow? 

I'd like to change the 'canary' keyword to 'b' or something like that. 

 

Hello,

 

Please download the latest version from https://github.com/mdreizin/chrome-bookmarks-alfred-workflow/releases and choose the keyword that you want.

[urandom]

Was not working for me on chrome 56, osx sierra, alfred 3.3

Had to apply this patch https://github.com/Kelym/chrome-bookmarks-alfred-workflow/commit/0c00e65bae427be2f6cd6bbf12323afabee6e749