Steps to transfer Chrome Custom Search Engines to Alfred

instructions.markdown

Step 0: Quit Chrome

Step 1: Get a dump of your search engines

> pwd
/Users/jonathankim/Desktop

> sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Web\ Data
sqlite3> .output chrome_export.sql
sqlite3> .dump keywords
sqlite3> .quit

Step 2: Grep through and find the search engine name, keyword and url string.

You're kind of on your own here...

Step 3: Create an array of settings objects

Again, you're on your own here...

Step 3: Use the sync script

Make sure to pass in your own search engine settings data from step 3.

sync_alfred.py

from os import environ
from os.path import join
import shutil
import plistlib
PLIST_FILE_PATH = join(os.environ['HOME'], 'Library/Application Support/Alfred/customsites/customsites.plist')


custom_searches = [{
    'name': 'Bing',
    'keyword': 'bing.com',
    'url': 'http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q={query}'
}, {
    'name': 'TechCrunch',
    'keyword': 'techcrunch.com',
    'url': 'http://techcrunch.com/?s={query}'
}, {
    'name': 'behance.net',
    'keyword': 'behance.net',
    'url': 'http://www.behance.net/?search={query}&header-search-content=projects'
}, {
    'name': 'Flickr',
    'keyword': 'flickr.com',
    'url': 'http://www.flickr.com/search/?q={query}'
}, {
    'name': 'Yelp',
    'keyword': 'yelp.com',
    'url': 'http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc={query}&src=opensearch'
}, {
    'name': 'Bottlenose',
    'keyword': 'bottlenose.com',
    'url': 'http://bottlenose.com/search/{query}'
}]


def get_plist_settings():
    if len(custom_searches) <= 0:
        return

    plist_settings = []
    for search in custom_searches:
        data = {
            'keyword': search['keyword'],
            'spaces': False,
            'text': search['name'],
            'url': search['url'],
            'utf8': False
        }

        plist_settings.append(data)

    return plist_settings


def backup_plist_file(plist_file_path):
    shutil.copyfile(plist_file_path, join(plist_file_path, '.bak'))


def write_plist_file(plist_settings, dest):
    plistlib.writePlist(plist_settings, dest)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    backup_plist_file(PLIST_FILE_PATH)
    write_plist_file(get_plist_settings(), PLIST_FILE_PATH)