Home

trovu.net – Web shortcuts, social, private.

trovu is a spin-off from Serchilo / FindFind.it. Read about the differences.

trovu allows you to define shortcuts for URLs / websites and then quickly access them in a command-line way, e.g.

Privacy: Queries are processed in the client, not server.
Social: Shortcuts are kept in text and YAML files in a public Github repository. Send a pull request to add or edit them.
Freedom: Optionally, create personal shortcuts in your own repository (or anywhere on the web).

First, lets look at the (example) settings:

Namespaces: Site namespaces point to the repository trovu-data.
- o: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trovu/trovu-data/master/shortcuts/o/{%keyword}/{%argumentCount}.yml
- de: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trovu/trovu-data/master/shortcuts/de/{%keyword}/{%argumentCount}.yml
- .de: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trovu/trovu-data/master/shortcuts/.de/{%keyword}/{%argumentCount}.yml

(Optionally, user namespaces can point to forks of trovu-data-user).

Now, lets look at a processing of a query:

A query comes in, e.g. g foobar.
The current namespace setting is o,de,.de.
The query is parsed – in the client by Javascript – into
- keyword: g
- argument: foobar
Based on the query and the namespace settings, the client Javascript tries to fetch 4 URLs:
From the fetches that succeeded, the results are evaluated in namespace order.
Since already the first text file exists, its URL is used for further processing
- https://www.google.de/search?hl={$language}&q={%query}&ie=utf-8
The {$language} placeholder is being replaced with the variable de.
The {%query} placeholder is being replaced with the query argument foobar.
A redirect to the URL is made.

This repository contains all the data, e.g.

Fork this repository to add or edit shortcuts (and send then a pull request).

This repository contains the web frontend.

Future plans.