Control your browser's tabs from the command line
Project description
Control your browser’s tabs from the terminal.
About
No command has been specified usage: bt [-h] {move,list,close,activate,search,open,words,dup,windows,clients} ... bt (brotab = Browser Tabs) is a command-line tool that helps you manage browser tabs. It can help you list, close, reorder, open and activate your tabs. positional arguments: {move,list,close,activate,active,search,index,open,words,text,dup,windows,clients,install} move move tabs around. This command lists available tabs and runs the editor. In the editor you can 1) reorder tabs -- tabs will be moved in the browser 2) delete tabs -- tabs will be closed 3) change window ID of the tabs -- tabs will be moved to specified windows list list available tabs. The command will request all available clients (browser plugins, mediators), and will display browser tabs in the following format: "<prefix>.<window_id>.<tab_id><Tab>Page title<Tab>URL" close close specified tab IDs. Tab IDs should be in the following format: "<prefix>.<window_id>.<tab_id>". You can use "list" command to obtain tab IDs (first column) activate activate given tab ID. Tab ID should be in the following format: "<prefix>.<window_id>.<tab_id>" active display active tab for each client/window in the following format: "<prefix>.<window_id>.<tab_id>" search Search across your indexed tabs using sqlite fts5 plugin. index Index the text from browser's tabs. Text is put into sqlite fts5 table. open open URLs from the stdin (one URL per line). One positional argument is required: <prefix>.<window_id> OR <client>. If window_id is not specified, URL will be opened in the active window of the specifed client words show sorted unique words from all active tabs of all clients. This is a helper for webcomplete deoplete plugin that helps complete words from the browser text show text form all tabs dup display reminder on how to show duplicate tabs using command-line tools windows display available prefixes and window IDs, along with the number of tabs in every window clients display available browser clients (mediators), their prefixes and address (host:port), native app PIDs, and browser names install configure browser settings to use bt mediator (native messaging app) optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit
Demo [TBD]
Features to show:
list tabs
close multiple tabs (fzf)
move tabs, move, same window
move tabs, move, different window
move tabs, move, different browser (NOT IMPLEMENTED)
move tabs, close
words, complete in neovim
open tabs by url
open tab by google query, search (should be extendable, NOT IMPLEMENTED)
integration with fzf:
activate tab
close tabs
integration with rofi:
activate tab
close tabs
show duplicate tabs and close them
Installation
Install command-line client: pip install brotab
Install native app manifests: bt install
Install Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brotab/
Enjoy! (try bt clients, bt windows, bt list, bt words)
Testing extension
To perform integration tests for the extension, chromium and firefox have different approaches to load it upon the start.
chromium: google-chrome-stable –disable-gpu –load-extension=./firefox_extension
firefox: use web-ext run https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Getting_started_with_web-ext
License
MIT
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