golinks

TL;DR: Type go + [tab] in your browser, and type your custom shortcuts for any link. If it doesn't exist, you will be redirected to a page to create it.

Credit

I basically stole everything from this blog post.

Install local server dependencies

virtualenv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Install chrome extension

• Go to chrome://extensions/
• Press the "load unpacked" button and add the chrome_extension dir in this repo

TODO(danielwatson6) need to update manifest.json to "manifest_version": 3

Workflow

Start the server with this command:

./goserver.sh

This will launch a daemon, so feel free to close the shell. To stop the daemon, ./goserver.sh will create a file called PIDFILE containing the pid of the daemon. So you can stop it with kill -9 $(cat PIDFILE), for example.

To not type http:// or be redirected to Google Search:

• Go to Chrome Settings > Search Engine > Site Search
• Add a search engine (name it golinks, with shortcut go, and with this URL: http://localhost:5000/go/%s)
• Now type go and press tab to navigate :) go-tab isn't quite go-slash, but it's good enough!

TODO(danielwatson6) add basic UI and endpoints for listing/editing/deleting golinks. Right now, this can be done manually by editing the links.json file.