blenderskool/untab

Plugin with user-defined rule for using "tweak url" products

rohitner opened this issue · 6 comments

rohitner commented

Few examples

  1. appending outline.com/ before a web article removes all the clutter from the page
  2. replacing github.com/user/repo with github1s.com/user/repo opens the repo in an online vscode editor
  3. appending ss before a youtube link leads to page where the video can be downloaded

#35 is a special case of this functionality

blenderskool commented

Interesting use case, are these expected to be configured by the user or we just provide them out of the box?

rohitner commented

There are multiple ways to do it

  1. We provide them the actions out of the box (code in #61)
  2. User configures the actions creating a javascript bookmarklet(examples below) and use untab to trigger it (no change needed in code)
    javascript: window.location.href = window.location.href.replace(/github(1s)?.com/, function(match, p1) { return p1 ? 'github.com' : 'github1s.com' })
    javascript: window.location.href = "https://outline.com/" + window.location.href
  3. Using untab gui plugin which facilitates method 2

Benefit of 2. is user will be able to export the bookmarks to other devices

blenderskool commented

@rohitner Interesting, I did not know bookmarks could store javascript scripts too! Is this supported in Firefox?

I think this is how we can go about this:

  • Provide some rules out of the box.
  • Pro users(who are familiar with JS) can create JS bookmarklet with their own features, that UnTab can pick up and trigger them.
  • Maybe in the future, make a separate interface (probably something like UnTab settings page) which makes this process of adding these bookmarklets easier.

Open to suggestions 🙂

rohitner commented

Firefox does support javascript bookmarklets!

  • As of now, I have added the implementation of outlining articles in #61. Let me know if you are thinking of something else regarding the implementation.
  • I am trying to figure out how to download youtube videos using a single button instead of redirecting to another website.

It would be great to know about rules you would like to have out of the box :).

blenderskool commented

@rohitner Great to hear that Firefox supports them too!

#61 looks good, I'll do the code review on the PR soon.

I'm not fully sure which ones we can add out of the box. Here are a few that came to my mind:

  • https://tinyurl.com/create.php?url= for shortening current page link
  • outline.com and github1s.com that you suggested also seem cool.
    (The github1s.com should only show up when user is on a GitHub repo though)
  • one for wayback machine? (I don't know if this is any helpful though)

Not sure how I feel about YouTube video downloading support out of the box, it sounds like it'll go against their terms.

blenderskool commented

Closing this as some of the actions discussed here have been added.
Discussion on user-configured actions using bookmarklets/normal JS scripts can now be on #85