Google bookmarks anyone?

[sanzoghenzo]

Hi all,
first of all thanks to everyone involved in this great project.
I came back to QS few days ago, after trying google QSB. (Since QS was
not SL ready.)
Now I miss the ability to load my bookmarks from google bookmarks (i
don't like delicious...).
I know I can get my bookmarks (after logged in) at
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/bookmarks.html . is there a way to
make QS read that file?
Thanks in advance and sorry for my english.
Cheers from Italy!

[Rob McBroom]

On Dec 7, 2009, at 4:08 PM, sanzoghenzo wrote:

> Now I miss the ability to load my bookmarks from google bookmarks (i
> don't like delicious...).
> I know I can get my bookmarks (after logged in) at
> http://www.google.com/bookmarks/bookmarks.html . is there a way to
> make QS read that file?

With most URLs, once you have it up in Quicksilver (by typing it or pulling it out of your browser bookmarks), you can hit → or / to have QS look at it and give you a list of links on the fly. But as far as I know, there is no support for authentication or cookies, so for something that needs to identify you to be useful, this won’t work. I hope someone will tell me I’m wrong. If not, I was thinking of filing a feature request on this anyway.

In your case, it doesn’t sound like you want to be able to arrow into the URL. You want the bookmarks themselves to be available in Quicksilver’s catalog. This is a good candidate for a plug-in.

Possible workaround: I don’t know anything about Google Bookmarks, but if there’s a way to sync it with the bookmarks in a desktop browser, you could set it up to sync and just have Quicksilver index the local copy. If you don’t want it messing with the local bookmarks in your main browser, maybe you could sync with one you don’t use. Quicksilver can pull bookmarks from at least 3 browsers and I don’t think they need to be running to get indexed.

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Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>

[sanzoghenzo]

Hi Rob,
thanks for your answer.
I didn't know of the url browsing feature of QS, it could be a good
way to browse my bookmarks.
I like the plugin idea, basically it could be a modified version of
old firefox bookmarks plugin, with an authentication feature. The
problem is I don't know where to start!
Happy new year from Italy!

[Rob McBroom]

On Jan 2, 2010, at 12:53 PM, sanzoghenzo wrote:

> I like the plugin idea, basically it could be a modified version of
> old firefox bookmarks plugin, with an authentication feature. The
> problem is I don't know where to start!

Depending on what you mean by “don’t know where to start”, I might be able to help. I couldn’t have told you much at the time of my last reply, but I’ve written a [new plug-in][1] since then. It was frustrating, so I’m writing a reference to help plug-in developers. I’ll most likely share the first draft next week.

It will only help if you have programming experience though.

[1]: http://github.com/skurfer/RemoteHosts