Qutebrowser: Keybinding (or command) to alter current URL (or previous command) in a specified way

Created on 23 Feb 2017 · 3Comments · Source: qutebrowser/qutebrowser

I've been trying to use Duck Duck Go as my primary search engine, but sometimes Google's results are better. So, what happens is that I'll first search for foo on DDG...

:open foo ->
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=foo

...and then I'll redo the same search on Google, usually by pressing :<C-p> to go back to my previous command, then moving leftward until my cursor is before foo, and then adding the DDG bang !g...

:open !g foo ->
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=foo

...which is rather tedious.

Question: Is there an easy way to automate this process --- either with a keybinding/command that adds !g to the previous command, or with a keybinding /command that adds !g to the DDG URL (in the right spot, of course)?

I know that I can edit-url manually with my editor, but is there some way of automatically transforming

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=foo

into

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!g+foo

? (Note that appending !g to the very end of the URL is not a general solution because DDG often adds extra stuff like &xy=bar).

Source

brianbuccola

Most helpful comment

Amazing! This simple bash script seems to do the trick:

#!/bin/bash

new_url=$(echo "${QUTE_URL}" | sed 's/?q=/?q=!g+/')

echo "open ${new_url}" >> "${QUTE_FIFO}"

Thanks!

brianbuccola on 23 Feb 2017

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All 3 comments

You can write an userscript which reads $QUTE_URL, does whatever you want with it, and then writes :open $new_url to $QUTE_FIFO.

The-Compiler on 23 Feb 2017

👍1

Amazing! This simple bash script seems to do the trick:

#!/bin/bash

new_url=$(echo "${QUTE_URL}" | sed 's/?q=/?q=!g+/')

echo "open ${new_url}" >> "${QUTE_FIFO}"

Thanks!

brianbuccola on 23 Feb 2017

👍2

Hats off to Sir Compiler for making this possible!

On Feb 23, 2017 2:32 PM, "Brian Buccola" notifications@github.com wrote:

Amazing! This simple bash script seems to do the trick:

!/bin/bash

new_url=$(echo "${QUTE_URL}" | sed 's/?q=/?q=!g+/')

echo "open ${new_url}" >> "${QUTE_FIFO}"

Thanks!

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