web-search.fish

A plugin to do a web search via fish. Inspired by oh-my-zsh/web-search

Requirement

• xdg-open(1): xdg-utils

Installation

Install with Fisher:

fisher install veirt/web-search.fish

Usage

web-search google nyahello, world

You can also define aliases in your fish config:

alias google="web-search google"
alias stackoverflow="web-search stackoverflow"
alias github="web-search github"

And now, you can also do it like this:

google nyahello, world

Available search contexts:

Context	URL
google	https://www.google.com/search?q=
youtube	https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=
bing	https://www.bing.com/search?q=
yahoo	https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=
duckduckgo	https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=
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=
nixpkgs	https://search.nixos.org/packages?query=
nixoptions	https://search.nixos.org/options?query=
aur	https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=
gpo	https://gpo.zugaina.org/Search?search=
searx	https://searx.org/search?q=
brave	https://search.brave.com/search?q=
urbandict	https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=
deepl	https://www.deepl.com/translator#auto/auto/
dockerhub	https://hub.docker.com/search?q=
npmpkg	https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=
packagist	https://packagist.org/?query=
gopkg	https://pkg.go.dev/search?m=package&q=

Custom Search

Additionally, you can set up a custom search with a different URL by defining a new environment variable with a WEB_SEARCH_ prefix and a unique context name. Simply set the URL you desire as the value for this new environment variable.

For example, if you want to make a search to the URL https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ with the context dict, you can use the following command or put it directly in your config.fish:

set -gx WEB_SEARCH_dict 'https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/'

You can now search with:

web-search dict word

Or, with an alias:

alias dict='web-search dict'
dict word

Credits

• oh-my-zsh/web-search. Licensed under MIT

FAQ

Why is it not opening my browser of choice?

Run this command in your shell. For example, if you want to change it to Firefox:

xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.desktop

You can replace firefox.desktop with whatever the name of your browser desktop entry:

• Google Chrome: google-chrome.desktop
• Chromium: chromium.desktop

You can find your browser's desktop entry in /usr/share/applications/ or in ~/.local/share/applications/

License

GNU GPLv3