Why?
I sent a bang suggestion to DuckDuckGo. It was something really important (to me), but they don't seem to even check the suggestions people send.
So I made this. It allows you to use your favorite search engine as default (in the absence of a bang) and personalized bangs.
The idea was inspired by mikecrittenden/duckduckgo. If you want something that uses Google and DuckDuckGo bangs at the same time, I recommend using it instead.
Can't you just use your browser's search engine manager?
No. I don't want to waste my time configuring every single browser and that's why I used to use DDG.
You'll need io.js to run it, but you can get over this with the --harmony flag.
As last-shot is meant to personal use, you may run it in your machine (to use pm2 is a good idea, so I will show how here, but you can just use tmux or even nohup):
npm -g install pm2
cd ~/ && git clone https://github.com/underr/last-shot && cd last-shot && npm install
pm2 start index.js
You may edit the bangs.json file or config.js before starting it.
You run queries at /search, for example: http://localhost:3000/search?q=memerap !rbtmu.
There's a optional list of your bangs at /list.
bangs.json is the file where you configure your colletion of bangs. I think its format is pretty much self-explanatory:
{
"bang": "g",
"url": "https://www.google.com.br/search?q=%s",
"name": "Google"
},
{
"bang: "dg",
"url: "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s",
"name": "DuckDuckGo"
}
It's where you configure things like your default engine. Still pretty basic.
If something in the code feels too hackish or wrong to you, feel free to send a pull request or open an issue.