mareklangiewicz / abishortcuts

Google chrome extension that automate some needed tasks.

ABI Shortcuts

This little project is a Google Chrome extension with a few commands activated by keyboard shortcuts.

Now it contains only four commands (translate, bookmark, shorturl, copytodrive), but it will grow with my needs to automate more operations.

I guess it will be more useful as a base code for other developers, not as a finished product, so I will not publish it on Chrome Web Store.

list of commands:

• Translate (default key: Ctrl+Shift+A)

  Takes the text selected on active tab, and opens a Google Translator in a new tab, with this text entered for translation. There you have fast access to your favorite Google Translator features like a listening the pronunciation, or starring the word in your own dictionary, or checking examples of this word in sentences :-)

• Bookmark (default key: Ctrl+Shift+X)

  It is useful if you have too much tabs open (again). It just adds all inactive tabs to your bookmark bar, and then closes them all. It leaves the active tab untouched.

• ShortURL (default key: Ctrl+Shift+S)

  It is useful if you want to write somewhere an URL address to active page, but it is too long. It uses Google URL Shortener API to create new short URL (like: goo.gl/ABCDE) that leads to the same page the long URL does. Check the Google URL Shortener API documentation for more info.

• CopyToDrive (default key: Alt+Shift+C)

  It copies selected text on active page, and saves it as a "clipboard.txt" file on your google drive. (you can have more than one such file there)

If some shortcut does nothing at all, check the chrome://extensions page. At the bottom of this page there is a link to keyboard shortcuts settings...