Web searching and bookmarks using Rofi
Inspired in a recent DT video and his Gitlab repository, I revamped my websearch shell script I’ve been using with Rofi.
I already had something very similar to this, but I took this opportunity to review the code and to separate my old websearch script into two scripts:
- websearch: web searching in an handful of sites
- bookmarks: quickly open bookmarks
websearch
This script allows for searching in a number of sites.
You can add your own sites by adding a new ‘options’ line.
1cat ~/.local/bin/websearch
2
3 #!/usr/bin/env bash
4
5 DMBROWSER="$BROWSER"
6
7 declare -A options
8 options[searx]="https://searx.tuxcloud.net/?q="
9 options[amazon]="https://www.amazon.com/s?k="
10 options[kindlebooks]="https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A154606011&ref=nb_sb_noss&k="
11 options[youtube]="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="
12 options[goodreads]="https://www.goodreads.com/search?q="
13 options[archaur]="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K="
14 options[archpkg]="https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q="
15 options[archwiki]="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?search="
16 options[audible]="https://audible.com/search?keywords="
17 options[duckduckgo]="https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q="
18 options[github]="https://github.com/search?q="
19 options[gitlab]="https://gitlab.com/search?search="
20 options[google]="https://www.google.com/search?q="
21 options[reddit]="https://www.reddit.com/search/?q="
22
23 while [ -z "$engine" ]; do
24 engine=$(printf '%s\n' "${!options[@]}" | sort | rofi -dmenu -p 'Choose search engine:') || exit
25 url="${options["${engine}"]}" || exit
26 done
27
28 while [ -z "$query" ]; do
29 query=$(echo "$engine" | rofi -dmenu -p 'Enter search query:') || exit
30 done
31
32 $DMBROWSER "$url""$query"
I then add to my ~/.config/i3/config file:
1bindsym $mod+f exec --no-startup-id websearch
bookmarks
UPDATED: I have a reviewed script here.
I use this script to quickly open my bookmarks.
I keep the bookmarks in 2 files:
- quickmarks.txt: with a short list of my most used bookmarks
- bookmarks.txt: all of my bookmarks
1cat ~/.local/bin/bookmarks
2
3 #!/usr/bin/env bash
4 default_browser="$BROWSER"
5
6 cat $HOME/.local/bin/quickmarks.txt | grep -v "^#" > /tmp/quickmarks.txt_tmp
7 cat $HOME/.local/bin/bookmarks.txt | grep -v "^#" > /tmp/bookmarks.txt_tmp
8 quickmarks_file="/tmp/quickmarks.txt_tmp"
9 bookmarks_file="/tmp/bookmarks.txt_tmp"
10
11 readarray -t qmarks < "${quickmarks_file}"
12 readarray -t bmarks < "${bookmarks_file}"
13
14 qmlist=$(printf '%s\n' "${qmarks[@]}" | awk '{print "["$1"] - "$NF}' | sort)
15 bmlist=$(printf '%s\n' "${bmarks[@]}" | awk '{print "["$1"] - "$NF}' | sort)
16
17 separator="================================================================================"
18 choice=$(printf '%s\n' ">> Quickmarks ${separator}" "$qmlist" "" ">> Bookmarks ${separator}" "$bmlist" | rofi -dmenu -i -l 20 -theme ~/.config/rofi/themes/gruvbox-dark.rasi -p 'open url:' "$@" ) || exit
19
20 if [[ `echo "$choice" | grep -c "^>>"` -eq 0 && "$choice" ]]; then
21 url=$(echo "${choice}" | awk '{print $NF}') || exit
22 nohup ${default_browser} "$url" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
23 fi
1cat ~/.local/bin/quickmarks.txt
2
3 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 📚books/Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/
5 📚books/Audible https://www.audible.com/
6 📚books/Kindle_Store https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks/b/?ie=UTF8&node=1286228011&ref_=sv_kstore_1
7 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
8 headspace https://www.headspace.com/login
9 reddit https://www.reddit.com/
10 youtube https://www.youtube.com/
11 paapereira.xyz https://paapereira.xyz/
1cat ~/.local/bin/bookmarks.txt
2
3 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 📚books/Deadhouse_Gates_Guide https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-Rqhn-lK66YQKPwZQNbHmuCLBc0d7zwvRLUJFkM3s50/edit#slide=id.g3fd7d324ec_0_0
5 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6 🏦banking/cgd.pt https://www.cgd.pt/
7 🏦banking/big.pt https://big.pt/
8 🏦banking/sodexo https://www.sodexobeneficios.pt/
9 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I then add to my ~/.config/i3/config file:
1bindsym $mod+Shift+f exec --no-startup-id bookmarks
