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Edge browser search engine export & import function
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| // export search engines | |
| // based on https://superuser.com/a/1626575 | |
| // visit edge://settings/searchEngines, run in Developer Tools (F12) | |
| (function exportSEs() { | |
| // auxiliary function to download a file with the exported data | |
| function downloadData(filename, data) { | |
| const file = new File([data], { type: 'text/json' }); | |
| const elem = document.createElement('a'); | |
| elem.href = URL.createObjectURL(file); | |
| elem.download = filename; | |
| elem.click(); | |
| } | |
| let searchEngines = []; | |
| document.querySelectorAll('[role="row"][data-rowid]') | |
| .forEach($el => { | |
| searchEngines.push( | |
| { | |
| name: $el.querySelectorAll('[role="gridcell"]')[0].textContent, | |
| keyword: $el.querySelectorAll('[role="gridcell"]')[1].textContent, | |
| url: $el.querySelectorAll('[role="gridcell"]')[2].textContent, | |
| })} | |
| ) | |
| downloadData('search_engines.json', JSON.stringify(searchEngines)); | |
| }()); | |
| // import search engines | |
| (async function importSEs() { | |
| // auxiliary function to open a file selection dialog | |
| function selectFileToRead() { | |
| return new Promise((resolve) => { | |
| const input = document.createElement('input'); | |
| input.setAttribute('type', 'file'); | |
| input.addEventListener('change', (e) => { | |
| resolve(e.target.files[0]); | |
| }, false); | |
| input.click(); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| // auxiliary function to read data from a file | |
| function readFile(file) { | |
| return new Promise((resolve) => { | |
| const reader = new FileReader(); | |
| reader.addEventListener('load', (e) => { | |
| resolve(e.target.result); | |
| }); | |
| reader.readAsText(file); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| const file = await selectFileToRead(); | |
| const content = await readFile(file); | |
| const searchEngines = JSON.parse(content); | |
| searchEngines.forEach(({ name, keyword, url }) => { | |
| // actual search engine import magic | |
| chrome.send('searchEngineEditStarted', [-1]); | |
| chrome.send('searchEngineEditCompleted', [name, keyword, url]); | |
| }); | |
| }()); |
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