# osnr/TabFS

🗄 Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem.

Repository: https://github.com/osnr/TabFS
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tabfs
Homepage: https://omar.website/tabfs/
Language: JavaScript
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2024-12-28T14:36:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2745, "days_push": 613, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3937, forks 117 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:30.098125+00:00)

## What it is
TabFS is a browser extension that mounts your open browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer, mapping each tab to a folder whose files reflect and control tab state. It lets you script and manage the browser with ordinary command-line tools, file managers, and scripting languages instead of writing extensions.

## Use cases
- list titles of all open browser tabs from the terminal
- close tabs with rm or a file manager
- script browser control with Python and bash
- extract text and URLs from open tabs into files
- automate opening tabs by writing to a file
- manage browser tabs from Emacs Dired

## When to choose
- you want to control or inspect the browser using standard Unix file tools and shell scripts
- you want to automate tab management without writing a browser extension
- you're on macOS or Linux using Chrome, Firefox, or Safari

## When to avoid
- you need Windows support
- you need a polished, actively developed product with guaranteed compatibility across browser updates
- you only need simple tab automation that a normal extension provides

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: file-system, browser-extension, developer-tools, workflow-automation, cli
- domain: browser-extensions, developer-tools
- platform: browser-extension, browser
- tags: fuse-filesystem, browser-automation, tabs-as-files, scripting, automation, command-line, macos, linux, safari

## Member repositories
- osnr/TabFS (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:30.098125+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:24:38.888099+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/osnr/TabFS (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:30.098125+00:00, sha 75f4818089f0)
  - homepage: https://omar.website/tabfs/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:18:40.405130+00:00, sha 815e18813ec0)
  - site_page: https://omar.website/tabfs/routes.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:18:40.415143+00:00, sha cffbcb277375)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.