tballas / BarLauncher-WebApp

BarLauncher plugin to start a URL in a webapp mode. Modified to accept search terms for more functionality.

Modified to accept search terms for more functionality

This is a modified version of the plugin to add the ability to search with commands. It adds the ability to use "{q}" or "%s" when adding new URLs, that will be replaced with terms for web search query when using that command.

Example:

wap add https://duckduckgo.com/?q={q} ddg [default]

When using that command:

wap ddg banana split

Resulting URL used:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=banana%20split

Another example:

wap add https://time.is/?q={q} time [default]

When using that command:

wap time paris

Resulting URL used:

https://time.is/?q=paris

Yet another example:

wap add https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term={q} ud urban urbandictionary [default]

When using that command:

wap ud snooze

Resulting URL used:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snooze

To install in Wox

Follow the original method to install:

wpm install WebApp launcher

Find your plugin directory

• Open Wox settings
  • In the system tray find the Wox Icon
  • Right click on it
  • Click "Settings"
• Click on the "Plugin" tab
• Find and click "WebApp launcher" in the list on the left
• Click "Plugin directory" on the right

Installing modified files

• Exit Wox first
• Download the WebApp-launcher_Modified_plugin_files_only.zip
• Extract that file over the files in the WebApp launcher... folder
• Start Wox and add new commands to WebApp launcher as desired, see examples above

Full modified plugin files provided if needed in WebApp-launcher_Full_modified_plugin.zip

Wox WebApp plugin

A Wox plugin to start url in a "Web app" mode.

Require Chrome installed to work out of the box.

Can be configured to work with another "web app launcher"

Example

Basic usage

Enter the following command to learn wap few url to transform into webapps:

wap add https://maps.google.com/ directions
wap add https://youtube.com/ video google
wap add https://google.com/ search engine
wap add https://bing.com/ microsoft ms search engine

Now search for url:

wap list

You'll see some url:

You can select https://maps.google.com/ and it will start the url using Chrome in WebApp mode:

Filters

you can obviously filter on url

wap list google.com

or on keywords

wap list video

or both

wap list google

Quick filter

You don't need to write list if the query is not ambiguous. All the previous examples may have been written as:

wap google.com
wap video
wap google

Advanced configuration

If you want to use something else to start your urls as a webapp, you can configure the plugin using wap config.

Imagine you have a file called mylauncher.exe that can start webapps given an url as argument. You can then type to edit the default profile:

wap config default mylauncher.exe "{0}"

You can also add a new profile named "edge":

wap config edge msedge.exe --app="{0}"

You can list the profiles by typing:

wap config

Then, by selecting a profile, it will auto-complete with current configuration.

wap config default chrome.exe --app="{0}" --profile-directory="Default"

Default configuration is :

wap config default chrome.exe --app="{0}" --profile-directory="Default"

Multiple browsers

You can use the profiles to open some webapp with Chrome, and other webapp with Edge:

wap config default chrome.exe --app="{0}" --profile-directory="Default"
wap config edge msedge.exe --app="{0}" --profile-directory="Default"

And then the following url will be opened by Chrome (default profile):

wap add https://www.google.com/ search engine google

But the following url will be opened by Edge (edge profile):

wap add https://www.micrsoft.com/ ms [edge]

Multiple profiles inside Chrome

You can use the profiles to open some webapp with a Chrome profile, and other webapp with another Chrome profile

wap config default chrome.exe --app="{0}" --profile-directory="Default"
wap config pro chrome.exe --app="{0}" --profile-directory="Pro"

And then the following url will be opened by Chrome profile "Default":

wap add https://www.google.com/ search engine google

But the following url will be opened by Chrome profile "Pro" (pro profile):

wap add https://www.micrsoft.com/ ms [pro]

Starting some webapp with private mode

You can use the profiles to open some webapp with standard mode, and other webapp with private/incognito mode

wap config default chrome.exe --app="{0}" --profile-directory="Default"
wap config private chrome.exe --app="{0}" --profile-directory="Default" --incognito

And then the following url will be opened in standard mode:

wap add https://www.google.com/ search engine google

But the following url will be opened in private mode:

wap add https://www.micrsoft.com/ ms [private]