Rofi web search

General description

This is a fork of pdonadeo's rofi-web-search with added browser and search engine support.

The script allows Rofi to be used as a search engine when launched with a specific launch script.

The script provides you the ability to ask suggestions to the search engine before actually open the browser. Just close your search string with bang (!) and type ENTER. This ability is not available in all search engines.

Suggestions will be listed by Rofi and you can select one of them or refine your search using CTRL+ENTER (this is the standard Rofi binding) to copy the selected line into the input field, then add a ! and press ENTER again.

When you are using DuckDuckGo you can also use the bangs search, starting the search with a ! and optionally closing it with a ! to get suggestions, as usual.

Requirements

• Rofi
• Python 3.*

Configuration

The script can be configured editing the first couple of lines. You can choose the browser, search engine, and terminal (if using Lynx browser).

Supported browsers are Google Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Chromium, and Lynx.

Supported search engines are Google and DuckDuckGo.

If using Lynx, the supported browsers are st and gnome-terminal

Just open the script and edit the necessary variables:

SEARCH_ENGINE

• google
• duckduckgo
• brave-search

BROWSER

• chrome
• firefox
• chromium
• brave-beta
• lynx

TERMINAL

• st
• gnome-terminal

Launch

Launch with (replace SCRIPT-LOCATION with the path to the script):

rofi -lines 10 -padding 0 -show search -modi search:SCRIPT-LOCATION -i -p "Search: "