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== Search use cases == | == Search use cases == | ||
=== General === | |||
* go straight to google maps for an address search | * go straight to google maps for an address search | ||
** search string <code> https://maps.google.com/?q= </code> | ** search string <code> https://maps.google.com/?q= </code> | ||
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* search for the word on your own mediawiki | * search for the word on your own mediawiki | ||
** search string <code> https://<your wiki's URL>/index.php?search= </code> | ** search string <code> https://<your wiki's URL>/index.php?search= </code> | ||
=== 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 <code> I NEED TO ADD THIS FOR BOTH OVERDRIVE AND PAPER </code> | |||
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/new/ Winnipeg reddit] - often they will have local news and info before "the news" do | |||
** search string <code> https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/search/?restrict_sr=1&sr_nsfw=&q= </code> | |||
== Stretch use cases == | == Stretch use cases == | ||
Revision as of 22:03, 2021 December 11
Firefox extension ContextSearch provides customizable select-rightClick searches.
You select a piece of text on a page, right click, and choose the search engine you 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 to this. Some use cases:
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
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
I NEED TO ADD THIS FOR BOTH OVERDRIVE AND PAPER
- search string
- Winnipeg reddit - often they will have local news and info before "the news" do
Stretch use cases
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&
- for regular edit:
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.