Metasearch.el allows to simultaneously use the same search string in multiple search engines (see also Metasearch engine - Wikipedia). I define search engine in this context as a website that executes a search when passed the correct URL. Depending on your browser configuration, for each of these websites either a new tab or a new window is opened (using open and an URL). Search engines can be organized and called in sets.
0.1.2
- Fix for Linux, which uses xdg-open
0.1.1
- Includes a small fix for “Trailing garbage following expression” bug
0.1
- first public version
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/rtrppl/metasearch
To run Metasearch, you need to load the package by adding it to your .emacs or init.el:
(load "/path/to/metasearch/metasearch.el") You should set a binding to metasearch-search-set. All my search and dictionary bindings start with “C-c d”, hence my choice below.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c d m") 'metasearch-search-set)If you want to add a binding to a specific search set, you could use this template:
(defun metasearch-search ()
(interactive)
(metasearch-search-set "Locations"))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c d M") 'metasearch-search)Or, if you use straight:
(use-package metasearch
:straight (:host github :repo "rtrppl/metasearch")
:bind
(:map global-map)
("C-c d m" . metasearch-search-set))These are the primary functions of Metasearch.el:
metasearch-add-search-engine and metasearch-remove-search-engine will, as their name implies, add and remove search engines from a list stored in ~/.metasearch-search-engine-list, a local JSON file.
The same file is used to store information about search sets. A set is a user-created group of different search engines. For example, I have a set called “Locations” that includes “Accuweather, Apple Maps Beta, Bing Maps, Google Maps, OSM, Pinboard, Reddit, Tiktok, Tiktok via Google, Wikipedia EN, Youtube”, which gives me a pretty good understanding of a location. Modify or create search sets with metasearch-modify-set (see the screenshot below). When a set is empty, it is removed.
metasearch-search-set will allow you to pick a set for any search. metasearch-search-all will use all available search engines for a search. If a region is active, it will be used as the search query, otherwise a search query is needed.
As you need to manually add search engines to Metasearch, here are the URLs for some common search engines to get you started:
- Baidu: https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=
- Baidu Baike: https://baike.baidu.com/item/
- Baike via Baidu: https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=site:baike.baidu.com+
- Bing: https://www.bing.com/search?q=
- Brave: https://search.brave.com/search?q=
- Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=
- FastGPT: https://kagi.com/fastgpt?query=
- WeChat via Baidu: https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=site:qq.com+
- Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=
- OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=
- Apple Maps Beta: http://beta.maps.apple.com/?q=
- Bing Maps: https://maps.bing.com/search?q=
- Accuweather: https://www.accuweather.com/en/search-locations?query=
- Github: https://github.com/search?q=
- Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/search?q=
- LinkedIn via Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:linkedin.com+
- LinkedIn via Bing: https://www.bing.com/search?q=site:linkedin.com+
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/search?q=
- Telegram via Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:telegram.me+
- TikTok via Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:tiktok.com+
- Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/s?k=
- Wirecutter: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/search/?s=
- Idealo: https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/MainSearchProductCategory.html?q=
- Check24: https://www.check24.de/suche/?q=
- The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/search?q=
- Bing News: https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=
- Google News https://news.google.com/search?q=
- NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=false&lang=en&sort=newest&query=
- 人民网: http://search.people.cn/s?keyword=
- CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/search?q=
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=