Add a bookmark to Chrome browser

add_bookmark.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Prerequisite: add a new bookmark directory in root directory. 
# 
# Usage: ./add_bookmark.sh "https://github.com/roeniss" "my github profile"
#
# Strongly recommend: Quit Chrome compeletely before execution.
#
# This is tested on m1 macbook, Ventura 13.3.1, 2023.
#

URL=$1
NAME=$2
BOOKMARKS_FILE=~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks
TMP=$(mktemp)

# backup
cp "$BOOKMARKS_FILE" ~/Downloads/Bookmarks.backup

# add a single bookmark into the last folder in root directory, then save it to tmp file
jq --arg URL "$URL" --arg NAME "$NAME" '.roots.bookmark_bar.children[.roots.bookmark_bar.children | length - 1].children[
    .roots.bookmark_bar.children[.roots.bookmark_bar.children | length - 1].children | length
    ] |= . + {
               "meta_info": {
                  "power_bookmark_meta": ""
               },
               "name": $NAME,
               "type": "url",
               "url": $URL
            }' "$BOOKMARKS_FILE" > "$TMP"

# update with tmp file
cat "$TMP" >"$BOOKMARKS_FILE"

echo "Done"

How/When I use this: I'm using Alfred5, which can open a specific bookmark page very fast. Recently, I thought that it would be better to add all of my organization's repositories instead of adding one by one when I newly visited. So I added all of them.

gh repo list -L 9999 $MY_ORG > repos.txt

with this file, edited and executed 9999 calls.

./add_bookmark.sh "https://github.com/MY_ORG/foo" "foo"
./add_bookmark.sh "https://github.com/MY_ORG/bar" "bar"
./add_bookmark.sh "https://github.com/MY_ORG/foo-bar" "foo-bar"
...