Python script to automatically install Firefox addons right from your shell

For now, it does the same, albeit it uses AMO (addons.mozilla.org) search's API, and can modify the SQLite database used for addons storage (not indexedDB, yet).

This script depends on (unsurprinsingly) Firefox, and optionally sqlite3 from PyPI, for storage modification support. You can download it using tools like wget or curl, chmod and execute it. The following lines do all this for you:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/demostanis/InstallFirefoxAddon/main/InstallFirefoxAddon.py && \
chmod +x InstallFirefoxAddon.py && pip install sqlite3 && ./InstallFirefoxAddon.py --help

Simply call the script with <addon> argument: ./InstallFirefoxAddon.py "uBlock Origin"

You will then be prompted to choose the correct addon between search results.

If you want not to be prompted and to automatically choose the first addon, use the --first option: ./InstallFirefoxAddon.py -f "Dark Reader"

Once you restart Firefox, the addons will be there.

To get current storage (often containing your settings) of an installed addon: ./InstallFirefoxAddon.py -r "NoScript"

This will show a large JSON dump.

If you redirect this command to a file, it will take storage({...}) form, which can be understood by this script: ./InstallFirefoxAddon.py -r NoScript > NoScript.prefs.py

cat NoScript.prefs.py # OUTPUT: storage({"policy/0":"..." ...})

You can then use --prefs option to replace entries in the storage database by the ones in the file generated by the previous command: ./InstallFirefoxAddon.py -p NoScript.prefs.py NoScript

Licensed under BSD-3-Clause.