Python code to save selected safari bookmarks to png images in a defined folder. The motivation for this project is my 'recipe book' which is actually a series of organised bookmarks i've tried and liked and those which I am yet to try. I've sometimes lost dishes to 404 pages or when there was the threat of BBC Good Food shutting down. Therefore the aim of this project is to replicate a bookmarks folder in png's in a permanent location on my computer.
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
If running on python3 all required library's that aren't default are included in the requirements.txt file which can be installed with the following command. pip install -r requirements.txt
Whilst the main bulk of the code will run on any operating system the initial reading of the bookmarks file has only been designed for reading the bookmarks.plist on macOS and the webkit2png module is also macOS only (alternatives to webkit2png seem to be available, though I have not tested them), some slight changes will be needed to re-implement this project for further browsers/operating systems.
If you have installed webkit2png through homebrew there is an error introduced in the update to .... where non-HTTPS sites are rejected and the ignore-ssl flag does not work. Follow this link for simple instructions on how to correct this, further information is available here.
To run simply fill in, if desired a sub directory to start from in the reducedTitle variable and a destination folder for the png images which will be saved.
Once run the result will be a folder with a png for every bookmark and a single text file containing details of any bookmarks that could not be saved.
To run in CLI mode outputting to json the -j flag must be added along with a destination for text files
for example python SafariBookmarkSaver.py -j -t ./
I combine the above CLI operation with another so that I can have recipe ideas selected on a weekly basis from the saved pool this can be done by a cron job if you know when your computer will be on or can be an aliased function on your profile For the function
alias giveFood="python ~/Documents/Python\ Projects/Food\ Saver/SafariBookmarkSaver.py -S -n 6 -r 70 -t ~/Desktop
or for the cron job, the osascript at the end is used to create a notification on MacOS
0 18 * * MON . $HOME/.bash_profile; python ~/Documents/Python Projects/Food Saver/SafariBookmarkSaver.py -S -n 6 -r 70 -t ~/Desktop && osascript -e 'display notification "New Recipes Identified" with title "Recipes"'
These scripts can be installed for you by running the setup.sh script provided you are using a bash or zsh shell.
- Andrew Godley - All Work - AG Labs
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details