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Firefox extension [https://github.com/odebroqueville/contextSearch/ ContextSearch] provides customizable select-rightClick searches. | |||
The user selects a piece of text on a page, right clicks, and chooses the search engine they want to use. The very basic functionality is available in many browsers at least for the default search engine, but ContextSearch allows you to add additional search engines, and also to use this for sites that aren't search engines at all but encode actions in their URL | The user selects a piece of text on a page, right clicks, and chooses the search engine they want to use. The very basic functionality is available in many browsers at least for the default search engine, but ContextSearch allows you to add additional search engines, and also to use this for sites that aren't search engines at all but encode actions in their URL | ||
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* for [[Mediawiki Extension PageForms|PageForms]] edit: <code> https://your.wiki's.URL/index.php?action=formedit&</code> | * for [[Mediawiki Extension PageForms|PageForms]] edit: <code> https://your.wiki's.URL/index.php?action=formedit&</code> | ||
Of course if you do this for a selected text that doesn't have a page on the mediawiki yet, it will try to create a new page for you. | Of course if you do this for a selected text that doesn't have a page on the mediawiki yet, it will try to create a new page for you. | ||
Latest revision as of 16:20, 2022 January 12
Firefox extension ContextSearch provides customizable select-rightClick searches.
The user selects a piece of text on a page, right clicks, and chooses the search engine they want to use. The very basic functionality is available in many browsers at least for the default search engine, but ContextSearch allows you to add additional search engines, and also to use this for sites that aren't search engines at all but encode actions in their URL
Search use cases
General
- go straight to google maps for an address search
- search string
https://maps.google.com/?q=
- search string
- go straight to google translate to see the translation of the selected foreign word
- search string
https://translate.google.com/?sl=da#auto/en/
- search string
- go straight to wikipedia for a search that would otherwise be polluted with sales spam
- search for the word on your own mediawiki
- search string
https://your.wiki's.URL/index.php?search=
- search string
- find out more about a book on goodreads:
- earch string
https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=
- earch string
Specific to Winnipeg - but similar would apply elsewhere
- add your local library catalog to see if a book is available for loan, rather than being launched to amazon with a generic search
- search string for eBooks
https://winnipeg.overdrive.com/search?query= - search string for paper catalogue
https://winca.ent.sirsidynix.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?q=
- search string for eBooks
- Winnipeg reddit - often they will have local news and info before "the news" do
Stretch use cases
Right-click edits on mediawiki
ContextSearch can do some other things in cases where the URL encodes actions, and the actions don't need to be in a specific order. For example, usually mediawiki opens a page in edit mode by appending action=edit to the end of the URL, like
https://wiki.squirrelslair.ca/index.php?title=Internal:Firefox_Add-on_ContextSearch&action=edit
but it will treat it the same if the URL has the action=edit before the title, e.g.
https://wiki.squirrelslair.ca/index.php?action=edit&title=Internal:Firefox_Add-on_ContextSearch
This means you can use the following search string to select-rightClick open a page in mediawiki using the following "search" string:
- for regular edit:
https://your.wiki's.URL/index.php?action=edit& - for PageForms edit:
https://your.wiki's.URL/index.php?action=formedit&
Of course if you do this for a selected text that doesn't have a page on the mediawiki yet, it will try to create a new page for you.