Reviews for Bookmark Dupes
Bookmark Dupes by Martin Väth
Review by B-boy/StyLe/
Rated 5 out of 5
by B-boy/StyLe/, 7 years agoHi,
No, they are not "alternatives". I have some bookmarks from forums topics with same titles but from different pages so the only difference in the url is the page number and it will be a pain in the neck to remove them manually. I hope you got what I meant. :)
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
No, they are not "alternatives". I have some bookmarks from forums topics with same titles but from different pages so the only difference in the url is the page number and it will be a pain in the neck to remove them manually. I hope you got what I meant. :)
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoEdit: In bookmark-dupes-5.5, there will be a special replacement text $TITLE which can be used to find “dupes” with the same title. The github page contains already more detailed instructions and a test version.
With bookmark-dupes-5.4, if you are looking for dupes with a _particular_ title (and not for duplicate titles in general), you can create a “modify” rule which checks for this title and replaces the whole URL by a fixed string. You need to fill the following fields for this rule:
“Name matches”: “\0NAME$” (without quotes; NAME is the name you are looking for; write \ in front of every non-letter).
“Replace URL matches”: “.+” (without quotes; this matches the whole URL)
“By” “x” (here, x can be any nonempty dummy text; in bookmark-dupes-5.5, x can even be empty (which was currently not supported due to misguided “safety” considerations)).
Instead of “Name matches” you can also use an URL match for the part which all bookmarks you want to "match" have in common. Or you can simply replace in your example the page number by an empty string, leaving the (common) rest of the URL as it is.
The latter is IMHO the solution which should be preferred, because it is is least likely to give wrong positives, but you need a rule especially adapted for your URL.
With bookmark-dupes-5.4, if you are looking for dupes with a _particular_ title (and not for duplicate titles in general), you can create a “modify” rule which checks for this title and replaces the whole URL by a fixed string. You need to fill the following fields for this rule:
“Name matches”: “\0NAME$” (without quotes; NAME is the name you are looking for; write \ in front of every non-letter).
“Replace URL matches”: “.+” (without quotes; this matches the whole URL)
“By” “x” (here, x can be any nonempty dummy text; in bookmark-dupes-5.5, x can even be empty (which was currently not supported due to misguided “safety” considerations)).
Instead of “Name matches” you can also use an URL match for the part which all bookmarks you want to "match" have in common. Or you can simply replace in your example the page number by an empty string, leaving the (common) rest of the URL as it is.
The latter is IMHO the solution which should be preferred, because it is is least likely to give wrong positives, but you need a rule especially adapted for your URL.
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Reply to developer's reply: I just used "Bookmarks clean up" by itwillnotbeasy and it worked like a charm. You might reconsider your current algorithm. Asking users to enter an "expert" mode AND advising to proceed with care is really bad UX design.Developer response
posted 3 months agoAre you sure that they have exactly the same URL, symbol by symbol, up to the very end? Otherwise you might need to use the “Expert mode“ to ignore different aspects of the URL or to use another criteria than the URL to determine duplicates. However, I would not advise you to do so unless you exactly understand what you are doing in this mode, as this might consider much more bookmarks as duplicates than you would like to.
Reply to your reply: By design, the extension does what it says, namely removing duplicate bookmarks. If you want something else - removing *similar* bookmarks - you can get this feature in expert mode; but it lies in the nature of things that this is a very dangerous feature. Especially if you do not understand exactly what is "similar" by the regular expressions you chose, chances are high that you remove bookmarks you actually wanted to keep. If it worked for your use case, that's fine for you, but unless you re-check very carefully manually, chances are high that you remove too much this way. - Rated 5 out of 5by spark9, 4 months agoPerfectly works as intended. Can't thank the creator enough! Deleted my copied bookmarks AND my empty bookmark folders!
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