opentab 0.0.6

Opentab groups browser tabs and let you open it whenever needed

OPENTAB

Tired of having hundreds of tabs open in your browser? Tired of saying: I'll keep this tab open so that tomorrow I can study this thing better? Tired of being sad when closing them all after forgetting why you opened them lately?

Then Opentab is the bash utility made for you!

Opentab should:

Open a group of tabs

• open a group groupname of tabs specified by the group name groupname

Be smart

• automatically collect a group of tabs based on a common pattern name (?????)

Add/remove tabs to/from a group

• add a tab URL to a specific group groupname
• remove a tab URL from a specific group groupname
• remove an entire group specifying the group name

Group listing

• list the groups registered
• list the groups registered with their URLs
• list a specific group with every URL in it

Usage example:

• opentab add groupname [URL]...

  • if no URL is provided, only a group with name groupname is added
  • if one or more URLs are provided, a group groupname and the corresponding URLs are added to the tabs.yaml file.

• opentab rm groupname [URL]...

  • if no URL is provided, the group is deleted along with each URL in it.
  • if one or more URLs are provided, their are removed from the group groupname

• opentab groupname --browser firefox --keep-alive where: devops is the name of the group of tabs containing a related subject --browser firefox is the chosen browser for opening the tabs --keep-alive is the flag for telling opentab to not close the tabs when the browser session is closed

• opentab ls [groupname]

  • if no group is provided, it shows the list of the saved groups.
  • if the group name is provided, it shows the URL(s) in that group.

DEFAULT VALUES AND CONFIG FILE

A config file should be created. In the config file, the user should insert:

• the preferred browser
• the preferred way to handle multiple calls to opentab: open multiple sessions of the same browser or open every new tab in the same session?

Config file structure (should be yaml):

config: browser: #keep-alive: launch-multiple-sessions:

USE CASE

devops has 10 tabs

opentab devops

options:

1. opentab removes entirely devops group from its DB
2. user has to remove manually the URLs
3. if user provides the -k/--keep-alive flag, opentab does not remove anything from the group
4. CHECK IF THERE EXIST A WAY TO DETERMINE THE TABS USER CLOSES. IF YES: opentab removes every page the user closes and puts it into an internal recycle bin

firefox opens 10 tabs

GROUP FILE

One of the most important file for both the user and opentab is tabs.yaml file. It stores the groups the user adds, and the URLs inside of each group. tabs.yaml can be found in the home directory under .opentab folder for Linux systems. It is recommended to not delete it in any case, as it would compromize the whole stability of the tool.

If the file has been mistakenly deleted, you can call:

opentab restore

• It should be a YAML file opentab: devops: - - -

• Every group is a directory --- .opentab |_______ | devops |________ | devops.txt -> URLs

        | restaurants
        | devel
  

REFERENCES

open browser sessions: https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html