Credit goes to the suckless website? The author’s name is in the file itself.
Here’s a little script to use your favourite search engine right from your desktop without needing to open a web browser first. As the title says, this script uses dmenu, and in my case, I use brave search.
As the image shows, I have a file saved in a dmenu directory I created, but you can put it anywhere.
Make sure to mark is as executable.
#!/bin/sh
# title: dmenu_websearch <http://efe.kim/dmenu_websearch.html>
# license: CC0
# author: Sunur Efe Vural <efe@efe.kim>
# version: Mar 22, 2019
# dependencies: dmenu, xdotool, hexdump, xprop, setxkbmap, coreutils.
# A browser-independent address bar with bookmark support. When the
# cursor is on a web browser it acts as the address bar of that browser.
browser='firefox'
engine='https://search.brave.com/search?q=%s'
bookmarks="$HOME/.bookmarks"
gotourl() {
if [ "$nbrowser" = surf ]
then
xprop -id "$winid" -f _SURF_GO 8s -set _SURF_GO "$choice"
elif [ -n "$winid" ] && [ -z "$nbrowser" ]
then
#change layout to us cuz xdotool spasms with non-latin layouts
layout=$(setxkbmap -query | awk '/^layout:/{ print $2 }')
setxkbmap -layout us
xdotool key --clearmodifiers "$shortcut"\
type --clearmodifiers --delay 2 "$choice"
xdotool key --clearmodifiers Return
setxkbmap -layout "$layout"
elif [ -n "$nbrowser" ]
then
$nbrowser "$choice"
else $browser "$choice"
fi
}
searchweb() {
#convert search query to percent encoding and insert it into url
choice=$(echo "$choice" | hexdump -v -e '/1 " %02x"')
choice=$(echo "$engine" | sed "s/%s/${choice% 0a}/;s/[[:space:]]/%/g")
gotourl
}
xprop -root | grep '^_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW' && {
winid=$(xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | sed 's/.*[[:space:]]//')
class=$(xprop -id "$winid" WM_CLASS | awk -F'\"' '{ print $(NF - 1) }')
case "$class" in
Firefox) nbrowser='firefox' ;;
#Firefox) shortcut='ctrl+l' ;; # alternative method, uses xdotool
IceCat) nbrowser='icecat' ;;
Chromium) nbrowser='chromium' ;;
Chrome) nbrowser='chrome' ;;
Opera) nbrowser='opera' ;;
Vivaldi) nbrowser='vivaldi' ;; # not tested
Brave) nbrowser='brave' ;; # not tested
Conkeror) nbrowser='conkeror' ;; # not tested
Palemoon) nbrowser='palemoon' ;; # not tested
Iceweasel) nbrowser='iceweasel' ;; # not tested
qutebrowser) nbrowser='qutebrowser' ;;
Midori) nbrowser='midori' ;; # not that good
Luakit) nbrowser='luakit' ;; # uses the last window instance
Uzbl|Vimb) shortcut='o' ;;
Links) shortcut='g' ;;
Netsurf*|Epiphany|Dillo|Konqueror|Arora) shortcut='ctrl+l' ;;
Surf) nbrowser='surf' ; uricur=$(xprop -id "$winid" _SURF_URI |\
awk -F'\"' '{ print $( NF - 1 ) }') ;;
*) pid=$(xprop -id "$winid" _NET_WM_PID | awk '{ print $3 }')
while pgrep -oP "$pid" >/dev/null
do
pid=$(pgrep -oP "$pid")
done
pname=$(awk '/^Name\:/{ print $NF }' /proc/"$pid"/status) ||
winid="" ;;
esac
[ -n "$pname" ] && case "$pname" in
w3m) shortcut="U" ;;
lynx|elinks|links) shortcut="g" ;;
*) winid="" ;;
esac
}
tmpfile=$(mktemp /tmp/dmenu_websearch.XXXXXX)
trap 'rm "$tmpfile"' 0 1 15
printf '%s\n%s\n' "$uricur" "$1" > "$tmpfile"
cat "$bookmarks" >> "$tmpfile"
sed -i -E '/^(#|$)/d' "$tmpfile"
choice=$(dmenu -f -p 'Web Search:' -fn 'JetBrains Mono-20' -nf '#94e2d5' -nb '#11111b' -sf '#fab387' < "$tmpfile") || exit 1
# Detect links without protocol (This is WIP)
protocol='^(https?|ftps?|mailto|about|file):///?'
checkurl() {
grep -Fx "$choice" "$tmpfile" &&
choice=$(echo "$choice" | awk '{ print $1 }') && return 0
[ ${#choice} -lt 4 ] && return 1
echo "$choice" | grep -Z ' ' && return 1
echo "$choice" | grep -EiZ "$protocol" && return 0
echo "$choice" | grep -FZ '..' && return 1
prepath=$(echo "$choice" | sed 's/(\/|#|\?).*//')
echo "$prepath" | grep -FvZ '.' && return 1
echo "$prepath" | grep -EZ '^([[:alnum:]~_:-]+\.?){1,3}' && return 0
}
if checkurl
then
echo "$choice" | grep -EivZ "$protocol" &&
choice="http://$choice"
gotourl
else searchweb
fi
You may use it if you feel like it, and modify it to your heart’s content.
Other dmenu scripts can be found here: https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/scripts/
Note: I copied the code for the script back in December 2023, so if there were any changes made to it by the author since then, it may be better to get it directly from their page instead.
