PowerToys-Run-WebSearchShortcut

This is a simple PowerToys CmdPal plugin for quickly selecting a specific search engine to perform searches via keyword prefixes.

If you are looking for the Powertoys Run plugin, please check: WebSearchShortcut run plugin

Preview

Installation

Run the following command with administrator privileges:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Daydreamer-riri/PowerToys-Run-WebSearchShortcut/main/CmdPalWebSearchShortcut/Install.ps1'))"

Due to sign reasons, this plugin cannot be installed via winget for now. I will do my best to resolve this issue.

Configuration

• Access the command shown in the image:

• Complete the form's content and save it.

Configuration fields

Url

The URL template for performing the search. Use %s as a placeholder for the search query. If the URL does not contain %s, the URL will be opened directly when you press enter.

{
  "Google": {
    "Url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s"
  }
}

ReplaceWhitespace

With ReplaceWhitespace, you can specify which character(s) to replace a space with when performing a search. This is useful for some websites, such as Wikipedia, which don't use plus signs ("+") to separate words in the URL.

Value	Result
" " or ""	Example+search
"-"	Example-search
"_"	Example_search
"+"	Example%2Bsearch

Note: As the string is converted to a URL, any spaces in the string (or ReplaceWhitespace) will be replaced with plus signs. Any other characters that are not allowed in a URL will be encoded with percent-encoding.

SuggestionProvider

Used to set the search suggestion provider.

The currently supported search suggestion providers are:

• Google
• Bing
• npm
• CanIUse

Planned:

• DuckDuckGo
• Yandex
• Baidu
• Youtube
• Wiki

PRs welcome!

You can also set a Provider to another search engine. For example:

Credits

• This project can only be completed under the guidance of this article. Thanks to @hlaueriksson for his great work.

• The search suggestion feature of this project is based on the relevant implementation of FlowLauncher, thanks @Flow-Launcher!

Thanks

Thank you to @thatgaypigeon for writing the excellent documentation!

License

MIT License © 2023 Riri