URL Aliases

About

URL Aliases

Now you can set up aliases for web pages you frequently visit using just one letter (or as many as you want). For example typing just the letter 'n ' in the Omnibox (Chrome's address / search bar), hit enter, and, you could be at nytimes.com.

For short aliases such as a single letter Chrome will usually offer an autocomplete. To use the alias, type space or delete at the end to dismiss the autocomplete.

Filter and Save / Load

Once you get a long list of aliases, you may want to search for specific ones. To filter the list, type a forward slash / in the alias input box. Also, you can save the aliases to an easily editable txt file, and load it into other accounts. If you already have aliases, you can opt to merge the txt file aliases with the existing ones, as opposed to replacing the existing ones with the txt file aliases.

Quick Add

This extension has a quick-add feature: if you're on a page that you want to add an alias for, all you have to do is click the extension icon (or type the keyboard shortcut, Alt+A on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+A on a PC), then type the alias and hit enter. The current page is automatically used as the URL. Of course you can optionally edit the URL; just tab over to it.

Motivation

It used to be that Chrome's Site Search feature could be used in this way, by adding "search engines" with no "%s" placeholder. But a recent Chrome update got rid of this. Now "%s" is required. All my site search entries without %s no longer work. Hence, this extension.

Code

The code is available at github (https://github.com/dazz13/url-aliases). This is a modification of the Web Aliases extension.