Exporting/Importing Bookmarks

[user-64bit]

I've been using Hackertab from past few weeks. I'm using it in my work laptop as well as my personal laptop.
So the issue happens when I try to get the bookmarked article from one laptop to another one. or wants to share the bookmarks with someone.

Exporting/Importing bookmarks will help anyone to organize there favorite articles.

Hope you got the point :)

[idebenone]

Hey @medyo !
Can I work on this feature?

[medyo]

@idebenone with pleasure,
Can you provide a compact tech spec for the feature, explain your proposed implementation method, and share any available UIs if available.

[idebenone]

Hey @medyo !
I was thinking of using storage.sync which is a part of Chrome/Firefox extension API and have an option to sync bookmarks.

[idebenone]

Update !
I tried to do with storage.sync , but its not reliable. IMO it would be better to do it from backend(ex: OAuth) and plus we can save a lot metadata like UI state and user preferences which will be in sync across devices. I think backend is not available to work on as of now ryt?
Please let me know what you think of this @medyo.

[user-64bit]

Hello @idebenone
You might be right. If will be better if we can implement it from the back end.
But I guess for now we can at least provide a feature of Import/Export.
We can Optimize or make it better later on.
Tell me, If I'm missing something here?

What do you say? @medyo

[medyo]

@arth2002 @idebenone did you check the chrome.bookmarks API?

[idebenone]

@medyo
Interesting! Will look into it.

[idebenone]

Hi @medyo,
I wanted to work on this feature, but apparently I'm getting an error. Tried re-installing the packages, still no luck.

[medyo]

Hi @medyo, I wanted to work on this feature, but apparently I'm getting an error. Tried re-installing the packages, still no luck.

I think react-icons has removed or changed the icon name, please replace in the project GoPrimitiveDot by GoDotFill and push the fix (to develop)

[medyo]

@idebenone Fixed, feel free to pull the last changes

[idebenone]

@medyo
I have created a function which will create a folder(bookmark's folder) in browser and adds all the hackertab bookmarks. Is this sufficient?

[medyo]

yes sounds good, do you ask for the bookmarks permission on click ?

[idebenone]

Not at the moment, but I will include if that's required.

[user-64bit]

Hey @idebenone
Are you working on this issue? 👀
If not then I would like to do it myself if possible. 🙂
Thanks 😊
cc: @medyo

[idebenone]

Hey @us3r64bit
Yeah sure, my hands are full at the moment.

[user-64bit]

Hello @medyo
It might be so stupid to ask for this type of doubt but I'm very bad with setting up projects on local. 😅
I was getting error and I don't know WTH is VITE_API_URL and where to get it from. (I've never used VITE too 😵‍💫)
Please guide me about how can I get VITE_API_URL and other env variables if there are any.
Thanks 🙂

[medyo]

Hi @us3r64bit, Actually I forgot to update the README,

create an .env at the root of the project with the following vars:

VITE_BUILD_TARGET=extension
VITE_API_URL=https://api.hackertab.dev/

[user-64bit]

Pinging you in case you miss my message on PR. 🙂
@medyo