https://github.com/przemsen/BookmarksBase

Searching through all bookmarked web sites
https://github.com/przemsen/BookmarksBase

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Searching through all bookmarked web sites

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/przemsen/BookmarksBase
• Owner: przemsen
• License: other
• Created: 2015-05-15T15:54:15.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-26T12:01:30.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T21:42:13.020Z (4 months ago)
• Language: C#
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• Size: 4.9 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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README

        
#### BookmarksBase is a tool that allows for searching in your bookmarks including entire contents of web sites, addresses and titles. ####

![Screen](/screenshot.jpg?raw=true)

## Currently supports only Firefox ##

# How to start? #

- Run `BookmarksBase.Importer`. It reads all your bookmarks, downloads clean text from the bookmarked websites and stores in current folder SQLite database file.

- Please note, that some anti-virus software may consider the importer as suspicious. It opens many connections in parallel to download web sites, which is quite unusual. I personally added whole folder to Windows Defender exceptions.

- Enjoy using `BookmarksBase.Search.exe`. It supports regular expressions and searches in the indexed web page contents. Type `help:` to view some extra features. 

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# 1. Instructions for the user #

- `BookmarksBase.Importer.exe` — **First run this tool** to generate database of bookmarks along with their contents. 

- `BookmarksBase.Search.exe` — **Main application intended for searching.** It searches through text from bookmarked websites

- When application starts, searching box is already focused. Start typing the text and press Enter

- You can use TAB to switch between search box and results list

- You can move up and down using keyboard when results list is focused

- Search is case insensitive and a text you enter is compiled as a regular expression

- If you wish to express any number of any characters use `.*`

- Double click on results list item opens it in a web browser

- Enter while focused on results list also opens selected item in a web browser

- You can switch between grouped and ungrouped view by using option in the context menu

# 2. Source code structure #

- `BookmarksBase.Search` — WPF application to perform searches

- `BookmarksBase.Importer` — Command line utility to import bookmarks from web browser and pull text from web pages

- `BookmarksBase.Storage` — DLL library with the implementation of the search as well as i/o with database file

- *Experimental* `BookmarksBase.Exporter` — Command line utility to export boomarks from SQLite database into MS SQL database. You probably will not need this.

# 3. Release notes #

- All applications are written for .NET6 (at the moment)

- Currently only Firefox web browser is supported. Other implementations can easily be created by inheriting `BookmarksImporter` class (following open-closed principle)

- HTML parsing is done with [Lynx](http://lynx.isc.org) and thus its binaries (included) are required to run the importer