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diff --git a/oh-my-zsh/plugins/web-search/README.md b/oh-my-zsh/plugins/web-search/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0bf9f26 --- /dev/null +++ b/oh-my-zsh/plugins/web-search/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +# web-search plugin + +This plugin adds aliases for searching with Google, Wiki, Bing, YouTube and other popular services. + +Open your `~/.zshrc` file and enable the `web-search` plugin: + +```zsh +plugins=( ... web-search) +``` + +## Usage + +You can use the `web-search` plugin in these two forms: + +* `web_search <context> <term> [more terms if you want]` +* `<context> <term> [more terms if you want]` + +For example, these two are equivalent: + +```zsh +$ web_search google oh-my-zsh +$ google oh-my-zsh +``` + +Available search contexts are: + +| Context | URL | +| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | +| `bing` | `https://www.bing.com/search?q=` | +| `google` | `https://www.google.com/search?q=` | +| `brs` or `brave` | `https://search.brave.com/search?q=` | +| `yahoo` | `https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=` | +| `ddg` or `duckduckgo` | `https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=` | +| `sp` or `startpage` | `https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=` | +| `yandex` | `https://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=` | +| `github` | `https://github.com/search?q=` | +| `baidu` | `https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=` | +| `ecosia` | `https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=` | +| `goodreads` | `https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=` | +| `qwant` | `https://www.qwant.com/?q=` | +| `givero` | `https://www.givero.com/search?q=` | +| `stackoverflow` | `https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=` | +| `wolframalpha` | `https://wolframalpha.com/input?i=` | +| `archive` | `https://web.archive.org/web/*/` | +| `scholar` | `https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=` | +| `ask` | `https://www.ask.com/web?q=` | + +Also there are aliases for bang-searching DuckDuckGo: + +| Context | Bang | +|-----------|-------| +| `wiki` | `!w` | +| `news` | `!n` | +| `youtube` | `!yt` | +| `map` | `!m` | +| `image` | `!i` | +| `ducky` | `!` | + +### Custom search engines + +If you want to add other search contexts to the plugin, you can use the +`$ZSH_WEB_SEARCH_ENGINES` variable. Set it before Oh My Zsh is sourced, +with the following format: + +```zsh +ZSH_WEB_SEARCH_ENGINES=( + <context> <URL> + <context> <URL> +) +``` + +where `<context>` is the name of the search context, and `<URL>` a URL of +the same type as the search contexts above. For example, to add `reddit`, +you'd do: + +```zsh +ZSH_WEB_SEARCH_ENGINES=(reddit "https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=") +``` + +These custom search engines will also be turned to aliases, so you can +both do `web_search reddit <query>` or `reddit <query>`. |