Idea: Stupidly Simple Search Shortcut

[luvnbeast]

I hope I can get some help with a tiny program that could read search URLs from a separate text file, I would be creating of 5 to 15 search engine URLs. Then upon starting the program in Win 10:

Create an input text box for the user to enter a keyword several keywords into.
then create a drop-down box or radio buttons to allow the user to select which an image search engine or engines to use (I could use more than 1).
Depending on the user's selections, open the corresponding image search engine pages in the default browser.
Display a prompt asking the user whether to repeat search again with a different engine or engines or keyword or to stop.

This would be a great time saver especially when searching for images across multiple engines or even search web engines as the program could probably be used to enter multiple keyword searches at once.  If you have any questions please reach out to me I would gladly answer all inquiries. Thanks for your support in advance...

[publicdomain]

Hi @luvnbeast, this is pretty doable & I'm on it (GUI)

Cheers!

I hope I can get some help with a tiny program that could read search URLs from a separate text file, I would be creating of 5 to 15 search engine URLs. Then upon starting the program in Win 10:

Create an input text box for the user to enter a keyword several keywords into.
then create a drop-down box or radio buttons to allow the user to select which an image search engine or engines to use (I could use more than 1).
Depending on the user's selections, open the corresponding image search engine pages in the default browser.
Display a prompt asking the user whether to repeat search again with a different engine or engines or keyword or to stop.

This would be a great time saver especially when searching for images across multiple engines or even search web engines as the program could probably be used to enter multiple keyword searches at once.  If you have any questions please reach out to me I would gladly answer all inquiries. Thanks for your support in advance...

-luvnbeast (March 30, 2023, 08:38 AM)

[luvnbeast]

Thank you so much, I hope this won't be too difficult... 

[publicdomain]

Thank you so much, I hope this won't be too difficult... 

-luvnbeast (March 31, 2023, 01:38 AM)

It's very doable. We have similar "click to edit" functionality from other GUI's and the keyword search is just a regex substitution.

Chances are it's a weekend project.

Source code @ https://github.com/p...main/search-shortcut

Stay tuned! Cheers!

[luvnbeast]

Ummm I'm sorry but did you forget about me?

[publicdomain]

... did you forget about me?

-luvnbeast (April 06, 2023, 07:18 AM)

Hi! Of course not!

Yours is our very next release

Cheers!

[publicdomain]

Good day! Code will begin making its way to public view via GitHub 

Display a prompt asking the user whether to repeat search again with a different engine or engines or keyword or to stop.

-luvnbeast (March 30, 2023, 08:38 AM)

I take it's okay to have it be a sequential pressing of "search" button instead of multiple prompts...


Also, if possible please mention what's your favorite browser (e.g. Chrome, Firefox, Edge...) to add an option to open in tabs (when triggering 10+ simultaneous searches, some browsers may actually open the same number of new Windows/Instances unless the appropriate command line flags are used).

Cheers!

[luvnbeast]

This is wonderful news! My usual browser has been Chrome... so new tabs shouldn't be too much of a problem, however I use giphy sometimes as well as duck duck go image search engines but I wanted to be more flexible so that's why I thought of a separate text file containing the search links to be reread every time the program restarted... So this way it could read how many engines there were to ask for and change the dialogue box automatically... or just an easier way to update the engine search prompt.... I hope this isn't too complicated.. and I do deeply thank you for your efforts so far...

I've included an old actona script I wrote a long time ago, that I couldn't change into ahk, that did the same kinds of actions I'm describing, yet the actona is now defunct, and windows is giving me a headache over it. Plus updating it with new possible search engines are a pain. So I thought of this simpler way to search for images for my students in a flash...

I hope you can find it as a useful guide so you wouldn't be starting from scratch entirely...

[publicdomain]

Hello & good day!  Code continues being pushed to GitHub & the program is shaping finely!



Think it performs what you require: multiple search terms + multiple search engines by user selection.

Adding a new search engine, is done by searching the keyword "publicdomain" and adding the resulting link, hence it's quite easy

[luvnbeast]

  It is looking awesome! Is the program a tray runner or can it shut down after the search? This is starting to look beautiful by the way

[publicdomain]

Glad you like the GUI, it's taking longer since it's being crafted with love

There are two dynamic counters for checked terms and engines on the status bar plus some "bells & whistles" customization/options.









Code keeps on being pushed to GitHub. We're getting closer to a fully-working release 

Let's first have you confirm it does what you need before making it a permanent tray runner 

Cheers!

[luvnbeast]

  This is looking really cool so far but I'll need to beta test it before I can add any meaningful input though... It's great to hear you are on this case though... 

[publicdomain]

For sure, your testing/input is most-valuable: this is your program!

Initial beta version is about to be published can be downloaded now

[publicdomain]

Hello again! Your program's code IS finished 

You can download & test  @ https://github.com/p.../releases/tag/v0.1.0

[publicdomain]

UPDATE: Three modes for handling search terms added:



Download @ https://github.com/publicdomain/search-shortcut/releases/tag/v0.1.0

We can consider this version feature-complete  Official release imminent made! @ SearchShortcut - Search across multiple engines (v0.1.0)

[luvnbeast]

  It is a win in my book!