Import search engine definitions by CLI

README.md

Import Search Engines to Chrome

If your daily life means bouncing between github, JIRA, jenkins, AWS, etc... (and your team), you want to standardize shortcuts

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/30/custom-search-engines-in-google-chrome/

This script will update your preferences, and make for glorious browser efficiency.

Usage

⚠️ shut down Chrome first, otherwise it shall fail due to locking.

cat sample.json | python import-se.py

import-se.py

### Import Search Engines to Chrome

### Python 2; OSX

import os
import sqlite3
import json
import sys

def load(db, *records):
  conn = sqlite3.connect(db)

  c = conn.cursor()
  max_id = int(c.execute('select max(id) from keywords').fetchone()[0])

  for record in records:
    if c.execute('select 1 from keywords where keyword = ?', [record['keyword']]).fetchone():
      print "Record already exists: %s" % (record['short_name'])
      continue

    max_id += 1
    record['id'] = max_id
    keys = list(record.keys())
    values = map(lambda k: record[k], keys)

    c.execute("INSERT INTO keywords (%s) VALUES (%s)" % (",".join(keys), ",".join(["?"] * len(keys))), values)
    print "Record added: %s" % (record['short_name'])

  conn.commit()
  conn.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
  db = os.path.expanduser("~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Web Data")
  data = json.load(sys.stdin)
  if isinstance(data, dict):
    data = [data]
  load(db, data)

sample.json

[
  {
  "short_name": "Github",
  "keyword": "g",
  "favicon_url": "https://github.com/favicon-ent.ico",
  "url": "https://github.com/search?q={searchTerms}",
  "safe_for_autoreplace": 0,
  "date_created": "13162568566000000",
  "usage_count": 100,
  "last_modified": 13162568566000000,
  "last_visited": 13188056277435693
  }
]

Would work for edge also see - https://github.com/jimbrig/PSEdgeKeywords/tree/main