Web Searches

A Quicksilver Web Search List

This is a list of web searches designed to be used with Quicksilver’s Web Search Module in lieu of http://docs.blacktree.com/quicksilver/web_search_list. To use it, you will need to modify ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Plugins/Web Search Module/Contents/Info.plist.

Modifying Info.plist

You need to replace the chunk of Info.plist that provides the settings for QSPresetDocWebSearches with the following:

<dict>
	<key>ID</key>
	<string>QSPresetDocWebSearches</string>
	<key>enabled</key>
	<string>YES</string>
	<key>name</key>
	<string>Web Searches (from http://wiki.github.com/tiennou/blacktree-elements/alternate-web-searches)</string>
	<key>settings</key>
	<dict>
		<key>contentPrefix</key>
		<string>&lt;h1&gt;Start of Web Searches&lt;/h1&gt;</string>
		<key>contentSuffix</key>
		<string>&lt;h1&gt;End of Web Searches&lt;/h1&gt;</string>
		<key>path</key>
		<string>http://wiki.github.com/tiennou/blacktree-elements/alternate-web-searches</string>
	</dict>
	<key>source</key>
	<string>QSWebSource</string>
</dict>

Guidelines for Adding to this Page

Let’s not make this into an unmanageable link dump. The searches that are here should be broadly useful. If a link is here that doesn’t meet that criteria, perhaps it should be deleted.

Github’s Textile processor tends to muck things up. It won’t accept qss-http:// style links, so just use http:// style links. It also can’t handle the ‘*’ quicksilver uses as a placeholder for the search query. So use the Firefox style ‘%s’ instead.

It is picky about what can go in a URL: trailing pound signs, for example, don’t get included. So replace them with their hex codes: * = %2A; # = %23. http://www.mikezilla.com/exp0012.html will generate codes for symbols that cause you problems.

Google dominates search and web services in so many ways: lets give it its own section. The rest of the links are organized by topic.

Links should go in the most general appropriate category. For example, amazon should go under “books”, not “shopping”.

Start of Web Searches

Please don’t edit the previous line! The Web Search Module needs it!

Google

• Google Search%s
• Search Gmail%s
• Search Google Maps%s
• Google News Search%s
• Search Google Books%s
• Search Google Video%s
• Google Image Search%s
• Google Scholar Search%s
• Google Calendar Quick Add%s+&action=TEMPLATE&pprop=HowCreated:QUICKADD
• Google Groups Search%s&qt_s=Search+Groups

Other Search Engines

• Bing Search%s
• Yahoo Search%s
• Scroogle Search%s
• ixquick Search%s
• Search YubNub%s
• Search Wolfram|Alpha%s

Social

• Search Twitter%s
• Search Facebook%s&n=-1
• Search Del.icio.us%s

Media

News

• Search the Economist%s&area=&Submit2=o

Books

• Search BookMooch%s&search.x=0&search.y=0
• Search PaperBackSwap%s

Video

• YouTube Video Search%s&search=Search

Images

• Search Flickr%s
• Search Picasaweb%s&psc=G&filter=1%23

Movies

• Search Metacritic%s&ty=0
• Search IMDb%s
• Search NetFlix%s
• Search Google Movie Times by US City or Zip%s
• Search Rotten Tomatoes%s
• Search Subscene%s

Music

• Create Pandora Artist Station%s&searchFilter=artist
• Create Pandora Song Station%s&searchFilter=song
• Search Last.FM for Everything%s

TV

• Search Tivo TV Listings%s

Maps

• Search Openstreetmap%s

Torrents

• Search btjunkie%s
• Search Demonoid%s&uid=0

Code

• Search Github%s&type=Everything&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1
• Search Perl CPAN%s&mode=all
• Search Ruby%s
• Search Gists%s&page=1
• Search Snipplr%s&btnsearch=Search
• Search Comprehensive Tex Archive Network%s&metadataSearchSubmit=Search

Mac

• Search Mac OS X Hints%s&type=stories&mode=search&keyType=all
• Search VersionTracker%s
• Search MacUpdate%s&descr=&developer=&license=&os=macosx&results=25

Academic

• Search arXiv%s/
• DOI%s
• WorldCat.org Search%s&submit=Search

Reference

• Search Acronym Finder%s&Find=find&string=exact
• Search the Merriam-Webster Dictionary%s
• Search the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus%s
• Search the Oxford English Dictionary%s
• Search the UrbanDictionary%s
• Search Wikipedia with Google%s&sitesearch=wikipedia.org
• Search Wikipedia%s&go=Gon
• Search Snopes.com%s&sp-a=00062d45-sp00000000&sp-advanced=1&sp-p=all&sp-w-control=1&sp-w=alike&sp-date-range=-1&sp-x=any&sp-c=100&sp-m=1&sp-s=0

Shopping

• Search Chapters.Indigo.ca%s
• Search Amazon.com%s&mode=blended&Go=o
• Search eBay%s
• Search BugMeNot%s

Weather

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Weather%s
• Weather Underground%s&wuSelect=WEATHER

Food

• Search Epicurious%s
• Search Cooks Illustrated%s

Web Services

• Mailinator%s
• Create TinyURL from URL%s
• WHOIS%s
• WHOIS%s&type=domain
• Feed Validator for Atom and RSS%s
• W3C Validator%s
• Search W3 Schools%s
• View URL in Coral Cache%s
• View URL in Google Cache%s
• View URL in Internet Archive Wayback Machine%s

Google Webbits

• Google MP3 Webbit%s+mp3+intitle:%22Index+of%22&btnG=Search
• Google PDF Webbit%s+pdf+intitle:%22Index+of%22&btnG=Search

End of Web Searches

Please don’t edit the previous line! The Web Search Module needs it.