HowTo print a nice list of your installed Gnome Shell Extensions

How? I don’t know, I am just asking ;)

Average joke I guess! Anyway, Daniel Sandman wrote a small script that prints in a Zenity Text Box a list of the extensions you have currently installed. Also it displays the links of the extensions, which is very handy!

Print a nice list of your installed extensions

This is totally cool if you want to share the extension you are using with the rest of the people in a blog or in a forum. Daniel shared this on Forums (thanks).

It takes some time to load, and if you close the window with <Ctrl+C> as I usually do, it won’t wipe the temp.txt file, so next time it will append in the previous (it will just show your extensions twice).

The Script

You can find it at GitHub and this is how it looks for now. It needs some improvements and if you want to give some feedback ..is welcome :)

#!/bin/bash

#We want the new-line to remain
old_ifs=${IFS}
IFS=$'
'

#Get the names of the extensions
EXT=$(grep "name\":" ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/*/metadata.json /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/*/metadata.json | awk -F '"name": "|",' '{print $2}')

echo "[Looking up extensions...]"
echo

#Find urls to the extensions
for n in ${EXT};
do
EXTFIND=$(grep -l "${n}" ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/*/metadata.json /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/*/metadata.json)

#Curl don't like blank spaces so use %20
i=$(echo "${n}" | sed 's/ /%20/g')

URL=$(curl -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0' --silent "https://www.google.com/search?q=site:extensions.gnome.org%20${i}" | grep -io "<a href=\"https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/.*(this,'','','','1'," | awk -F '<a href="|"*' '{print $2}')

#If urls not on extensions.gnome.org use the one in metadata.json
if [ "${URL}" = "" ]; then
URL=$(grep "url\":" ${EXTFIND} | awk -F '"url": "|",*' '{print $2}')
fi

#Print out the nice list
echo "$n - (${URL})" >> temp.txt
done

zenity --text-info --width=850 --height=800 --title="My extensions" --filename=temp.txt
rm temp.txt

echo
echo "[Done!]"

IFS=${old_ifs}

How to Run it

If you are not familiar with Git and not sure how to use this script:

1. Copy all the text in gnomeExtGet

2. Open terminal, make a new file and paste text there

$ gedit gnomeExtGet

3. Make the file executable

$ chmod +x gnomeExtGet

4. Run it

$ ./gnomeExtGet

Get it @ https://github.com/Almehdi/gnomeExtGet/blob/master/gnomeExtGet