greyteddy / searching_things

Search Things

An extension to search using multiple sites at once!

Features

• It creates a group of tabs of different websites that use the search term provided
  • The group is named after the search term.
• The extension can be shown through a keyboard shortcut.
  • The shortcut can be changed in the Extensions Settings.
  • Defaults:
    • Windows/Linux: Control + Shift + S
    • macOS: Command + Shift + S
• You can add/remove groups and pages in the Options page.
  • When adding a page, you can specify the search_term by adding {{}} in the URL.
    • e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q={{}} to search the term on google
    • It can also be used multiple times if needed
      • e.g. https://www.baidu.com/s?wd={{}}&oq={{}}
    • To add multiple pages at once you can use , as a delimiter.
      • e.g https://www.google.com/search?q={{}},https://www.baidu.com/s?wd={{}}&oq={{}}

Installation

• The extension is currently being reviewed, so availability on the chrome extension store is pending...
• To install manually, you can find the release .crx package in the Releases page.
• To install from source, you can download the source code and Load Unpacked from the root folder.

Bugs/Feature Requests

You can look at Issues for any bugs and feature request that exist already.

If not, then feel free to request something or leave the error, preferably with ways to replicate it. A screenrecording or a screenshot will help a lot!

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I use this to search for news or stock information from multiple sources and I am finding it pretty neat!

searching_things's Issues

Duplicate pages are not deleted correctly

If two pages have the same url, the one that was added first will be deleted, regardless of which one was chosen to be deleted.

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