advanced-library-search

Provides an advanced search for browser bookmarks and histories.

Install

Installation via Mozilla ADD-ONS
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/advanced-library-search/

Usage

If you want to search for bookmarks, start with b: or bookmark: and you want to search for history, start with h: or history:. Also, can be show each search options by appending -h after these prefixes.

Bookmark

• Help

  b: -h
  

• Default search. Attempts match to the Title and URL.

  b: something
  

• Words containing apostrophes must be enclosed in double quotes.

  b: "It's show time!"
  

• When don't use the regular expression, can use an asterisk as a wildcard. Will probably match to www.example.com and blog.example.com

  b: *.example.com
  

• Fuzzy-search. If the words are separated by a space, fuzzy search.

  b: hello world
  b: 'hello world'
  

• AND-Search. Use an asterisk or regular expression instead of a space.

  b: hello*world
  b: hello\sworld -r
  

• Search by Title

  b: -t 'hello world'
  

• Search by URL

  b: -u example.com
  

• Use different search terms for title and URL

  b: -t 'hello world' -u example.com
  

• Regular expression

  b: -r ^hello-[0-9]
  b: -r -t ^hello-[0-9]
  b: -r -t ^hello-[0-9] -u [^.]+\.example\.com
  

• Date added

  Before
  b: -d -2021
  
  After
  b: -d 2021/10/1
  
  Between
  b: -d 2021/12/1-2022/1/1
  

• Folder path. Can use like a 'glob' pattern. **, *, ?, []

  b: -f /foo/*/baz/**
  

History

Almost the same as the example of bookmark. so, the differences are indicate.

• Help

  h: -h
  

• Visit count

  Visited more than 5 times.
  h: -c 5
  
  Visited less than 5 times.
  h: -c -5
  

• The maximum number of results to retrieve. The default is set to 500.

  h: -m 1000
  

Use as a search engine

In firefox, you can use it as a search engine by adding it to your bookmarks as follows.

• bookmark

  moz-extension://[ADDON-ID]/index.html?t=b&q=%s
  

• history

  moz-extension://[ADDON-ID]/index.html?t=h&q=%s
  

Development

Build procedure

1. Download dependencies

   npm i
   

2. Build addons

   npm run build-firefox
   

Debug procedure

1. Download dependencies

   npm i
   

2. Run webpack(watch)

   npm run webpack-watch
   

3. Debugging

   npm run debug
   

4. Test

   npm test