Re: [Lynx-dev] Keystroke to search via search engine

[Thorsten Glaser]

Tim Chase dixit:

>I usually do this with an alias or shell function to populate the              
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>GET parameters, like                                                           
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>  $ goog() { lynx [2]https://google.com/search?q="$1"; ; }                      
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More escaping needed ☺

# GooGle Search
ggs() {
        local _q _IFS

        _IFS=$IFS
        IFS=+
        _q="$*"
        IFS=$_IFS
        ${BROWSER:-lynx} 
"http://www.google.com/search?hl=la&pws=0&num=100&safe=off&q=$_q";
}

# DuckDuckGo search
ddg() {
        local _q _IFS _p=/ _a=

        _IFS=$IFS
        IFS=+    
        _q="$*"  
        IFS=$_IFS
        case /${BROWSER:-lynx} in
        (*/dillo*)
                # make result page and target links work
                _p=/lite/ _a='&kd=-1' ;;
        (*/links*|*/lynx*)
                # avoid automatic redirect
                _p=/lite/ ;;
        esac
        ${BROWSER:-lynx} 
"https://duckduckgo.com$_p?kp=-1&kl=wt-wt&kb=t&kh=1&kj=g2&km=l&ka=monospace&ku=1&ko=s&k1=-1&kv=1&t=debian&q=$_q$_a";
}

Though some want space (+) to be replaced by %20, and # is still a problem.

bye,
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