SCOUT — Forum Search Tool

A lightweight GTK3 desktop app that searches Arch Wiki, Arch BBS, Manjaro, EndeavourOS and Mabox forums simultaneously and presents results sorted by date.

quickview for already made questions on the forums and history

Features

• Multi-source search — Arch Wiki, Arch BBS, Manjaro, EndeavourOS and Mabox in one query

• Results sorted by date — newest topics first, across all sources

• Bookmarks — save topics with timestamp, open or copy link anytime

• Search history — latest searches at the top, re-run with one click

• Color-coded forums — consistent colors across Results and Bookmarks tabs

• Hover tooltip — full title and URL on mouse-over, no link column clutter

• Persistent settings — window size, hits per source and active forums saved on exit

• Keyboard shortcuts — Ctrl+L focus search · Escape clear · F5 re-run

• Multilingual — English, Dutch, Spanish, Polish (auto-detected from $LANG)

• Dropdown search keywords - Fills in similar questions from discource forums,

  quickview for allready made questions on the forums and history [use space]

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Sources

Forum	API
Mabox	Discourse JSON
EndeavourOS	Discourse JSON
Manjaro	Discourse JSON
Arch Wiki	MediaWiki JSON
Arch BBS	DuckDuckGo site-search (off by default)

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Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• GTK3 (python-gobject)
• requests

sudo pacman -S python-requests

# or with pip
pip install requests

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Usage

chmod +x scout.py
./scout.py

Install to your favorite bin location like...

cp scout.py ~/.local/usr/bin/scout

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Files

Path	Contents
~/.config/scout/settings.json	Window size, hits per source, active forums
~/.cache/scout/bookmarks.log	Saved bookmarks
~/.cache/scout/history.log	Search history

Tip: Use jumpapp to toggle scout and keep just one window.

yay -S jumpapp

Command for .desktop

exec=jumpapp -f scout