safari-bookmarks-cli

A cli to manage bookmarks in the Safari web browser.

This utility interacts with Safari's Bookmarks.plist file. When it detects changes it is reloaded without intervention.

Note macOS 10.14+ requires Full Disk Access for the application being used. ie. Terminal, iTerm, etc.

Installation

You can install safari-bookmarks-cli via pip:

pip3 install safari-bookmarks-cli

# verify installation
safari-bookmarks --version

Usage

The following assumes the default location for Safari's bookmarks, which is ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist. If this is not the case you can specify an alternate location by passing the arguments -f <elsewhere>.

For a full list of commands and options just run:

safari-bookmarks --help

To list all bookmarks run

safari-bookmarks list

To list all bookmarks in the menubar

safari-bookmarks list "BookmarksMenu"

Add a new bookmark to the menubar

safari-bookmarks add --title "New bookmark" --url "http://example.com" "BookmarksMenu"

Add a new bookmark to the menu

safari-bookmarks add --title "New folder" --list "BookmarksBar"

Move a bookmark to a different folder

safari-bookmarks move "BookmarksMenu" "New bookmark" --to "BookmarksBar" "New folder"

Remove a bookmark or folder

Note removing a folder will also remove all bookmarks and folders within it.

safari-bookmarks remove "BookmarksBar" "New folder"

Empty a folder

safari-bookmarks empty "BookmarksBar" "New folder"

Testing

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/evilmarty/safari-bookmarks-cli.git

Install pytest and flake8

pip3 install pytest flake8

Run them

pytest && flake8