urlsearch 0.2

perform web searches from the command line

Usage

Usage: URLSEARCH_NAME query
  opens appropriate search query in a browser

urlsearch provides a shortcut to start a web search from the command line. It is designed to be symlinked from command names which refer to the target search engine; several are already included by default:

• google

• bing

• ddg (DuckDuckGo)

• pylib (search Python library reference)

• pypi (search the Python Package Index)

• wiki (search Wikipedia)

Features:

• simple special casing of query path and naming (see ‘wiki’ as an example)

• supports trac ticket searches (e.g. #1234) by omitting the leading ‘#’, which would otherwise be interpreted as a comment by the shell and dropped.

• supports local domains - if name can be resolved locally it will be used in preference to appending a suffix

Examples

These assume ‘google’, ‘wiki’, and ‘trac’ are urlsearch commands:

$ google photon mapping
$ trac r19201
$ wiki path tracing

Default installation

Note the default installation adds a number of new commands to your PATH, as listed in the Usage overview above.

$ pip install urlsearch
$ google python webbrowser  # open web page

Manual installation

Cloning the repository locally and editing the content of scripts by deleting or creating symlinks is recommended to get a more custom set of search links.

~$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/codedstructure/urlsearch
~$ cd urlsearch/scripts
scripts$ rm google
scripts$ ln -s urlsearch trac
scripts$ cd ..
urlsearch$ python3 setup.py install

CHANGES

0.2:

• change to use setuptools

• add pypi search

0.1:

• first release

TODO

Improved support for manually adding search types including simple special casing is planned.

Ben Bass 2012-2014 @codedstructure