"An amanuensis is a person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
There's a problem I'm constantly facing: I can't restart my computer or update stuff that might ask for restart because there's always a ton o open tabs in my browser. Copy each url to a file would be tedious (and we know that programmers are lazy). I've tried a third party solution as well and didn't like. So I decided to implement a solution myself.
Amanuensis combine a Bash script and a Python script to save the urls of open tabs in your browser and later restore them.
- The scripts were written on a Linux environment but I'm working on a Windows version
- At this point, Firefox is the only browser that you can save urls from, but is possible to restore the urls saved from Firefox on Chrome
- You must have Python 3 installed
Make sure that both Bash and Python scripts are in the same directory. Then run:
bash amanuensis.sh save firefox to save the urls
bash amanuensis.sh restore [firefox | chrome] to restore the tabs
When saving, a text file called "saved_urls.txt" will be created. Make sure this file exists when trying to restore.
Tip: You can also export the Bash script as an environment variable so you can call it anywhere.