mz-tab-urls: Get Mozilla Firefox tabs URLs on stdout

mz-tab-urls.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import ConfigParser
import json
import os

"""
Dirty script to get Mozilla Firefox tabs URLs on stdout

source: https://raymii.org/s/snippets/Get_the_current_or_all_Firefox_tab_urls_in_Bash.html
"""

mz_user = os.environ['USER']
mz_profile_path = \
"/home/{0}/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini".format(mz_user)


def LoadProfile(profile_path):
    cp = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
    cp.read(profile_path)
    return cp.get('Profile0', 'Path')

def GetProfilePath(path):
    return LoadProfile(path)

def GetMozillaProfilePath():
    return GetProfilePath(mz_profile_path)

def GetJson(path):
    json_store = ""
    with open(path, "r") as f:
        json_store = json.loads(f.read())

    return json_store

mz_store_path = \
"/home/{0}/.mozilla/firefox/{1}/sessionstore.bak".format(mz_user, GetMozillaProfilePath())

def GetMozillaSessionStore():
    return GetJson(mz_store_path)

if __name__ == '__main__':

    json_data = GetMozillaSessionStore()

    for w in json_data.get('windows'):
        for t in w.get('tabs'):
            i = t.get('index') - 1
            print t.get('entries')[i].get('url')

• I can now open Firefox URLs in chromium like that:

% python mz-tab-urls.py | while read u; do chrome --remote "$u"; done;