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Dumb Bookmarks from Uzbl
dumb is a minimalist, command line based, bookmark manager that I'm writing; it is meant to follow the *nix approach and thus should work quite well together with the uzbl browser.
This HOWTO assumes that you have one or more dumb collections in ~/.dumb/collections and that they are valid git repositories, but can be easily adapted to other locations and DVCSs.
Adding Bookmarks
In the uzbl config file (usually ~/.config/uzbl/config) add the following line:
@cbind Ba = spawn /usr/local/bin/uzbl-add-bookmark.sh
note that some default configuration file already binds @scripts_dir/insert_bookmark.sh to the B key: you may want to comment out or delete the line.
You will then need to create the /usr/local/bin/uzbl-add-bookmark.sh script; you can choose between a quick-and-dirty one that simply adds a minimal bookmark, or a more refined one that uses zenity to ask some questions and allow for more data.
If you have no write access to /usr/local/bin you can of course use ${HOME}/bin or some other location.
Quick and Dirty
A minimalist script that simly adds an url and the title is:
#!/bin/sh title=$(echo "$7" | sed 's/\t/ /') url=$6 cd ~/.dumb/collections/my_bookmarks git add `dumb-add -v -t "$title" "$url" ` git commit -m "$url"
This assumes that bookmarks should simply be added to the collection in ~/.dumb/collections/my_bookmarks.
Zenity Based
This allows to select a collection, add tags and a comment to the bookmark, but requres dumb > 0.2 (i.e. currently just git):
#!/bin/sh
DUMB_COLLECTIONS=~/.dumb/collections
TITLE=$(echo "$7" | sed 's/\t/ /')
URL=\'$6\'
if [ x'' != x"$TITLE" ]
then
TITLE="-t '$TITLE'"
fi
COLL=$(ls $DUMB_COLLECTIONS | zenity --list --column="Collection")
if [ x'' == x$COLL ]
then
COLL=my_bookmarks
fi
cd $DUMB_COLLECTIONS/$COLL
KEYWORDS=$(dumb-list-keywords | zenity --list --editable --multiple --separator=' ' --column='Keywords')
if [ x'' != x"$KEYWORDS" ]
then
KEYWORDS="-k '$KEYWORDS'"
fi
COMMENT=$(zenity --entry --text="Comment:")
if [ x'' != x"$COMMENT" ]
then
COMMENT="-c '$COMMENT'"
fi
git add `dumb-add -v "$TITLE" "$KEYWORDS" "$COMMENT" "$URL" `
git commit -m "$URL"
