download youtube videos with conkeror

As internet is scarce in my new $HOME, now, when I have some, I tend to download lots of things in my $COWORKING-PLACE and schedule them for watching/reading later.

So I tried to automate the process a little bit. Obviously, using conkeror.

• install youtube-dl  .
• put this in your .conkerorrc file.
• M-x youtube-dl RET

Done.

smart-browser

Since I discovered conkeror, I'm not using w3m that much, because conkeror works great :)

The issue is that doing any kind of web dev in conkeror is suboptimal. Its support for firebug is quite basic. One option is opening different browsers depending on the url. That makes sense, and I used this technique when I was using w3m.

But I wanted to explore a different approach. My problem is the following. Usually I want to open a url in conkeror, but if chromium is already opened, it's probably that I'm using some of the devtools, and I want to keep using it during this 'session'.

What I don't want is to have 2 browsers opened.Unless I open them manually, then, follow the preferences. Although being complex to explain, it just feels right when I use it.

So I hacked some elisp to give priorities to browsers, and use a default one when there's nothing opened.

The idea is quite simple: Just look for the browsers in order of preferences, and open the first one that is already opened. The last one is a hack, to open conkeror by default.

It's an ugly hack, but hopefully you'll learn some elisp API you didn't know :)

Switching gmail accounts in Conkeror

Here I come with another hack for conkeror.

I've been using gnus on and off during the last year, but I keep comming to gmail web interface quite often.

The page mode for gmail is quite nice but there's one thing you can't do using the keyboard (AFAIK). That is changing accounts.

So I wrote a couple of functions to switch along N different gmail accounts you might be logged in.  In the end, I simplified the functions to a single one that just swaps between the zeroeth account and the first one. here we go.

conkeror go to buffer

In conkeror, you're trying continuously to think emacs, so many commands and shortcuts just make sense when you're browsing.

A nice way to move through buffers is obviously c-x b, but from time to time I was typing M-g M-g as if it was a 'goto-line' in emacs, but meaning goto-buffer. 

So let's go and use js to have this goto-buffer 

github + emacs + conkeror = m-x github-clone-repo

Well, after a month of no activity in this blog (too many real life
issues to attend like european lisp symposium, european CL meeting or Barcelona Music HackDay and Sonar2013 itself), Whatever, I'm back to blogging.

Conkeror

Lately I started to use conkeror as my main browser. That means using
it for most of the tasks, and trying to configure it properly for all
my needs.

It feels really nice when the same shortcuts you'd use in emacs work
in your browser, and in fact, it has a very emacsy approach also on
the code. The browser is written in javascript, and it also has
page-modes, interactive functions, minibuffer, etc...

Awareness

When you use an extensible software you start becomming aware of your
movements.  I had that feeling and wrote org-protocol-github-lines to
add links in github pages that pointed to emacs.

Another feature of org-protocol-github-lines is that you have a new
button on top of github urls where you can clone a repo to your machine.

So what?

Since I have m-x in my browser, I try to write commands for repetitive
tasks (the same I'd do with emacs). So I wrote this little snippet
that you can put in your .conkerorrc and m-x github-clone-repo to get the repo on your box
. provided you have emacs-server running and
org-protocol-github-lines.el evaluated .

If you want to give it a try, you just have to get conkeror, org-protocol-github-lines, and this snippet. And configure them Probably I'll add the snippet to the repo. Pull Requests are also very welcome.