# web-search plugin

This plugin adds aliases for searching with Google, Wiki, Bing, YouTube and other popular services.

Open your `~/.zshrc` file and enable the `web-search` plugin:

```zsh
plugins=( ... web-search)
```

## Usage

You can use the `web-search` plugin in these two forms:

- `web_search <context> <term> [more terms if you want]`
- `<context> <term> [more terms if you want]`

For example, these two are equivalent:

```zsh
$ web_search google oh-my-zsh
$ google oh-my-zsh
```

Available search contexts are:

| Context               | URL                                             |
| --------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| `bing`                | `https://www.bing.com/search?q=`                |
| `google`              | `https://www.google.com/search?q=`              |
| `brs` or `brave`      | `https://search.brave.com/search?q=`            |
| `yahoo`               | `https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=`            |
| `ddg` or `duckduckgo` | `https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=`                |
| `sp` or `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=`         |
| `ask`                 | `https://www.ask.com/web?q=`                    |
| `youtube`             | `https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=` |

Also there are aliases for bang-searching DuckDuckGo:

| Context   | Bang  |
| --------- | ----- |
| `wiki`    | `!w`  |
| `news`    | `!n`  |
| `map`     | `!m`  |
| `image`   | `!i`  |
| `ducky`   | `!`   |

### Custom search engines

If you want to add other search contexts to the plugin, you can use the `$ZSH_WEB_SEARCH_ENGINES` variable.
Set it before Oh My Zsh is sourced, with the following format:

```zsh
ZSH_WEB_SEARCH_ENGINES=(
    <context> <URL>
    <context> <URL>
)
```

where `<context>` is the name of the search context, and `<URL>` a URL of the same type as the search contexts
above. For example, to add `reddit`, you'd do:

```zsh
ZSH_WEB_SEARCH_ENGINES=(reddit "https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=")
```

These custom search engines will also be turned to aliases, so you can both do `web_search reddit <query>` or
`reddit <query>`.
