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

• xdg-open(1): xdg-utils

Install with Fisher (recommended):

fisher install veirt/web-search.fish

or manual installation:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Veirt/web-search.fish/main/install.fish | fish

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:

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

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

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/

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