safari-tabs

name

safari-tabs

description

Interact with Safari browser tabs, reading list, bookmarks, and history via AppleScript. Use when the user asks to analyze, organize, summarize, deduplicate, close, export, or manage their Safari tabs. Also handles reading list, bookmarks, and history searches. Triggers include "my tabs", "open tabs", "Safari tabs", "clean up my browser", "what tabs do I have open", "organize my tabs", "too many tabs", "reading list", "bookmarks", "browser history", "export tabs". Requires macOS with Safari.

Safari Tabs

Safari browser management via AppleScript.

Key Scripts

Script	Purpose
get_tabs.sh	Get tabs with optional window filtering (TSV/markdown/JSON)
close_by_pattern.sh	RECOMMENDED: Close tabs matching URL pattern
close_tabs.sh	Close by window,tab index (advanced)
find_duplicates.sh	Find/close duplicate tabs
domain_stats.sh	Analyze tabs by domain
export_tabs_*.sh	Export as JSON/CSV/markdown/HTML
get_reading_list.sh	Export Reading List
get_bookmarks.sh	Export bookmarks
search_history.sh	Search history
open_urls.sh	Open URLs from file/stdin

Getting Tabs

get_tabs.sh                    # All tabs as TSV
get_tabs.sh markdown           # All tabs as markdown
get_tabs.sh -w 1 markdown      # Window 1 only
get_tabs.sh -m "term" markdown # Window containing "term"

Closing Tabs

Always use close_by_pattern.sh (finds tabs by URL regardless of position):

close_by_pattern.sh "unique-url-substring"

# Examples
close_by_pattern.sh "adrianroselli.com"
close_by_pattern.sh "/article/css-has-guide"

Closes ALL matching tabs across all windows. Use unique substring.

Alternative: close by position (error-prone, avoid unless necessary):

close_tabs.sh "1,5" "2,3"  # Window,tab pairs (1-indexed)

Analysis Workflow

1. Fetch: get_tabs.sh markdown
2. Analyze: group by domain, identify duplicates/clusters, flag stale content
3. Report: stats, categorized list, suggestions
4. Act: close with close_by_pattern.sh "url-substring"

Process-and-close pattern:

1. Fetch tab
2. Process it
3. Close: close_by_pattern.sh "unique-url-part"
4. Next tab

Export Formats

export_tabs_markdown.sh [list|table|checklist|grouped]
export_tabs_json.sh
export_tabs_csv.sh
export_tabs_html.sh > bookmarks.html  # Importable format

Other Features

Duplicates: find_duplicates.sh [--close] Domain stats: domain_stats.sh Reading list: get_reading_list.sh [tsv|markdown|json] Bookmarks: get_bookmarks.sh [tree|flat|json] History: search_history.sh [term] [--days N] Open URLs: open_urls.sh urls.txt or pipe stdin

Privacy: Tab data stays local. Page content not accessed unless explicitly requested.