https://github.com/boredsquirrel/weblink
A small bash tool to create GUI desktop links for websites including favicon and .desktop entry
https://github.com/boredsquirrel/weblink
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A small bash tool to create GUI desktop links for websites including favicon and .desktop entry
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/boredsquirrel/weblink
- Owner: boredsquirrel
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2023-10-10T18:00:28.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-10-10T18:09:59.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-22T02:15:19.020Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 16.6 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# weblink
A small bash tool to create GUI desktop links for websites including favicon and .desktop entry
Some people like to launch Websites either from their Appmenu, or from their Desktop.
Even though thats rather weird, it can't harm to help with that!
The tool:
- uses core GNU utils, so it should work everywhere (except Alpine, lol)
- detects if the user uses native for Flatpak firefox
- downloads the matching favicon using the DuckDuckGo favicon search
- Extracts the websites Titles
- Removes Umlauts from the Title
- Creates a Desktop entry with all the parameters, using any given URL
Install:
```
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/DESKTOP-LINKS
mkdir ~/.local/share/applications/DESKTOP-LINKS-ICONS
wget -P ~/.local/bin/ https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/weblink/raw/main/weblink
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/weblink
```
Use:
```
weblink wikipedia.org
```
TODO:
- create a Firefox Addon to do this for the currently visited website
- fix all special characters, not only Umlauts