kiwis 🥝

open a keyword in a website's internal search

installation

• install AutoHotkey
• download and extract the latest release .zip file
• run kiwis.menu.ahk
   

usage

• highlight a word
• use ctrlalt + k to open the menu
• (at the top of the menu you will see the word you selected)
• select a website from the list to have it open with the word already searched

if no text is selected then the website will be launched without searching anything

 

adding new sites

• go to a site's internal search and search the word kiwi
• copy and paste the url into the [kiwis] ini section at the top of kiwis.menu.ahk

url example:  https://github.com/search?&q=kiwi&type=  
ini format:   website name = url   

• give the website a name, then add that name to the menu text in the [ezMenu] ini section

right click on the tray menu icon and select "reload this script" to update your changes

 

using ezMenu

the menu in this script is generated using ezMenu.  you can read more about that here but the main things that would be useful to know for this script are:

• lines that are indented by 1 tab or 4 spaces become sub-menus
• lines that contains 3 dashes --- and nothing else will turn into menu separators
• putting a full stop at the start of the line disables it and turns the text grey
   

options

start with windows

to have the script start when windows boots up, select "start with windows" from the tray icon