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:
plugins=( ... web-search)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:
$ web_search google oh-my-zsh
$ google oh-my-zshAvailable search contexts are:
| Context | URL |
|---|---|
bing |
https://www.bing.com/search?q= |
google |
https://www.google.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= |
Also there are aliases for bang-searching DuckDuckGo:
| Context | Bang |
|---|---|
wiki |
!w |
news |
!n |
youtube |
!yt |
map |
!m |
image |
!i |
ducky |
! |
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_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_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>.