INSTANT Pinboard search from Alfred 2

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INSTANT Pinboard search from Alfred 2

I've had a Python script that makes an HTML Bookmarks file for LaunchBar.
Now that I use Alfred 2, I modified it to make XML for Alfred.
This allows me to search my bookmarks with GREP SPEED!

Installation

First, add your token (from pinboard.in/settings/password) to ~/.netrc

machine pinboard.in
  password username:T0K3N11111111111

Then:

1. Get pinboard-xml (I've also attached it to the gist in case I change something in my dotfiles repo)
2. Put in the folder where you keep your scripts (eg. ~/bin)
3. chmod +x it
4. Add to crontab (eg. */30 * * * * ~/bin/pinboard-xml)
5. Make a workflow in Alfred 2 with the following Script Filter (using /bin/bash) to Open URL:

echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>"
echo "<items>"
cat $HOME/.bookmarks.xml | grep "{query}"
echo "</items>"

Enjoy!

pinboard_xml.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Made by Val Packett, ages ago in a past life
# https://gist.github.com/valpackett/5189568   <- also on gist
# Feel free to steal it, but attribution is nice
import os
import sys
import json
import netrc
import errno
import urllib2

def die(msg, err):
    sys.stderr.write(msg)
    sys.exit(err)

login = netrc.netrc().authenticators('pinboard.in')
if not login:
    die('pinboard.in not found in netrc; add token as password', errno.ENODATA)

try:
    getreq = urllib2.urlopen('https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?format=json&auth_token='+login[2])

    if getreq.code == 429:
        die('too often', errno.EPERM)
    if getreq.code != 200:
        die('http error %s on getting, maybe wrong password?' %
                getreq.code, errno.EACCES)

    items = json.loads(getreq.read())

    res = '''<?xml version="1.0"?>
<items>'''

    for item in items:
        href = item['href'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '').replace('&', '&amp;')
        desc = item['description'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '').replace('&', '&amp;')
        res += '<item uid="%s" arg="%s"><title>%s</title><subtitle>%s</subtitle></item>\n' % \
        (href, href, desc, href)
    res += '</items>'

    open(os.environ['HOME']+'/.bookmarks.xml', 'w').write(res)
except urllib2.HTTPError:
    die('connection error', errno.ECONNREFUSED)

Thanks for this!

Thank you so much for this little tool! I really like it!

However, whenever there is a & (ampersand) in the URL or the description, the grep command return couldn't be correctly parsed by Alfred, therefore this particular item won't show up in the search result.

Also, it was working fine until today. When I run

/opt/local/bin/python2.7 /Users/xiaoning/Scripts/pinboard_xml.py

these are the error messages:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/xiaoning/Scripts/pinboard_xml.py", line 16, in <module>
    login = netrc.netrc().authenticators('pinboard.in')
  File "/Applications/Canopy.app/appdata/canopy-1.3.0.1715.macosx-x86_64/Canopy.app/Contents/lib/python2.7/netrc.py", line 35, in __init__
    self._parse(file, fp, default_netrc)
  File "/Applications/Canopy.app/appdata/canopy-1.3.0.1715.macosx-x86_64/Canopy.app/Contents/lib/python2.7/netrc.py", line 113, in _parse
    " the owner", file, lexer.lineno)
netrc.NetrcParseError: ~/.netrc access too permissive: access permissions must restrict access to only the owner (/Users/xiaoning/.netrc, line 3)

I may have updated some python packages today. Did that somehow broke the script? I'd greatly appreciate if you can help me fix this. Many thanks!

chmod 600 ~/.netrc

solved it!

To solve the "&" issue, try changing:

href = item['href'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '')
desc = item['description'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '')

to

href = item['href'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '').replace('&', '&)
desc = item['description'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '').replace('&', 'and')

In case there are "&" present in your pinboard bookmark description or url.

Lookup https://github.com/jmjeong/alfred-extension/tree/master/pinboard

Updated to use urllib2 (no deps!) and API token auth instead of password auth.

Thank you