Use bookmarks with keywords as search providers

[lericah]

would love to see the ability to use search keywords set in the firefox config ie. "t g panda bears" to search panda bears on google.

[cmcaine]

We want this too, but we don't get access to the search keyword list in firefox or in the bookmarks.

We'll make the search provider map configurable soon...

[dannycolin]

I know this isn't THE solution but a workaround would be to add the possibility to have parameters in the search engine. Actually, we can set a search engine like so :

searchsetkeyword esa http://www.esa.int/esasearch?q=

As you can see there's no %s. So when we type : open [searchengine] [my search] the second part is only append to the search url. But with a variable we can do stuff like.

https://%s.example.com/ or https://example.com/?search=%s&var=test etc...

In other word, it emulate the functionnality of bookmark's keywords.

[bovine3dom]

@dannycolin is that necessary for anything? Nobody has mentioned it being missing yet so I didn't bother adding it.

As an aside: we could potentially have an import wizard that gets all bookmark URLs with %s in them and allow people to assign keywords to them.

[dannycolin]

@bovine3dom As an aside: we could potentially have an import wizard that gets all bookmark URLs with %s in them and allow people to assign keywords to them.

Could be nice.

is that necessary for anything?

For example, I use a bookmark for reddit.com with the keyword "r" and the url : "https://reddit.com/%s". So if I type "r" it goes straight to the main page but if I type "r r/linux" it goes to that specific sub.

I do the same with an other website but where I need to add the second part in the middle of the URL. So when I type "u moodle" it goes to the moodle instance of my university (https://moodle.myuniurl.com).

As you can see, the actual code doesn't support my second example. The result is "https://.myuniurl.com/moodle". That's why I think adding support for the %s would be nice. :)

[bovine3dom]

Cool, I've made a new issue for it: #253.

[fredrikhl]

Is there any progress on this?

I have a few (~100) keyword searches that I've grown dependant on. The advantage of having these as bookmarks with keywords, is that they are synced between browsers, and are importable/exportable from the bookmarks menu.

[homeworkprod]

I personally use "keywords" (i.e. those strings one can add to a bookmark, e.g. using the -keyword option in Vimperator after pressing 'a') a lot.

I don't exlusively use them for searches (like wp foo would translate to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/foo), though, but also for lots of sites without a placeholder/%s in the bookmark URL (e.g. just t for https://www.twitter.com, so t t<Enter> would open Twitter in a new tab in Vimperator).

I might be mixing some things up, but as I understand it, keywords are not necessarily coupled to searches/search providers/search engines.

So yeah, it would be great (for me: almost essential) to get keywords working in Tridactyl as well.

[cmcaine]

Bug opened with Mozilla for this functionality:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435466

[bovine3dom]

@cmcaine Mozilla have closed your bug in favour of a different closed bug which was resolved, essentially, as WONTFIX because bookmark keywords are going to get the chop. (I could have sworn I had linked to that bug and said that Mozilla weren't going to do it somewhere, maybe it was on Matrix...)

[cmcaine]

Yeah, bugzilla search is terrible.

I don't know if they are getting rid of keywords or not, there are active bugs about changing the keywords internal API and I don't know why they'd do that if they were going to cut them soon.

Worst case, someone can write a thing to extract existing keyword bookmarks and import them to tridactyl.

[bovine3dom]

Closing as this is WONTFIX'd by Mozilla.

[GHolk]

Firefox can export/import all bookmarks to/from a JSON file, which contain bookmarks' keyword. How about provide a command to export/import firefox's bookmark json?

[cmcaine]

Can Tridactyl trigger the export with our permissions? If not, this sounds like a good candidate for a quick and dirty script with jq or your favourite programming language to generate a file that you'd then source from your .tridactylrc or whatever?

[GHolk]

Currently, I just manually export bookmarks, and I did not find any api. Maybe I can post my script in the wiki.