Awesome
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:
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:
$ 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= |
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= |
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_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_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>
.