dmenu-websearch

Shorthand for web search based on each own query with dmenu.

📦 Dependencies

dmenu, is a dynamic menu for X
jq, is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor

🌎 Web Search Queries

.urlquery

[ "Arch:Manpage",        "https://man.archlinux.org/search?q=" ],
[ "Arch:Wiki",           "https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?search=" ],
[ "Arch:Packages",       "https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=" ],
[ "Arch:Packages:AUR",   "https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=" ],
[ "DuckDuckGo:Search",   "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=" ],
[ "GitHub:Search",       "https://github.com/search?q=" ],
[ "Google:Search",       "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!g+" ],
[ "Google:Search:Image", "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!gi+" ],
[ "Google:Translate",    "https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=id&text=" ],
[ "Ruby:Gems",           "https://rubygems.org/gems/" ],
[ "Ruby:Toolbox",        "https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/search?q=" ],

🏗️ How to add new query?

Just add new URL query via Add:New:Query menu. It will asking about value of prefix menu & URL query.

🍱 How to use?

Call dmenu-websearch. Choose your prefix menu, or you able to complete the perfix menu with Tab, and write down your keywords.

The form should be like this,

Arch:Packages libreoffice still
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 prefix menu      keywords

TIP: You're free to define the prefix menu. My example is just for ease to explaining.

💃 Demo

🗒️ TODO

Create a menu to add a query
Retrieve query url value from urlquery file
Create urlquery.example and enter the urlquery into gitignore
If urlquery does not exist, create new from urlquery.example
Do not put in the urlquery file if the menu prefix & query url are empty
Create a menu to delete the selected data url query from the urlquery file
Create a menu to edit the selected data url query from the urlquery file

🍻 Related Project

* NOTE: Feel free to add your project (if related) here.

link:https://github.com/m0rphism/haskell-dmenu-search[haskell-dmenu-search^], dmenu script for searching the web with customizable search engines.
link:https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw/[surfraw^], Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web.

🏛️ Copyright and License

Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the MIT License.

See LICENSE for details.

sboysel / dmenu-websearch