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For many of my regulars, both exist (!w & w!, !gmaps & gmaps!) but as this isn't standard, it can lead to holes. For example, !hackernews works but hackernews! not.
It would be great if all bangs could have both variants as standard rather than allowing submission of one but not the other.
The only operator I use is "!", which is DDG's version of "I am feeling lucky". And I only use this because Google's silently phasing out the functionality[1]. 1. https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/15794018
I filed a support request with StartPage.com to offer the "I'm Feeling Lucky" functionality and never got a response. Maybe if more people ask...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577
Startpage is now owned by an advertising company (reddit.com)
182 points by rahuldottech 10 months ago | 82 comments
hoverboard !as !gs !target !walmart
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Firefox has a similar feature. You can define your own keyword rule, for example, to macro-expand hn duckduckgo into https://hn.algolia.com/?q=duckduckgo and thus get a shortcut to HN's own site search (Algolia), without involving Google/DDG/etc. To do this, you need simply to bookmark the URL https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%s and set the bookmark's "keyword" property to "hn". Then "hn" becomes a special operator in the o…
This is neat, I hope it will also work with the Tridactyl's search bar
For ages I've wanted DuckDuckGo to add a "!copy" bang, which acts like the "!" operator (automatically navigates to the first search result) but instead of going to the page, it copies the link to my clipboard. There are plenty of projects I'm familiar with but don't know the canonical URL off the top of my head - when I link someone else to them I have to look up their homepage. This would make this process much fas…
Why? I'm seriously curious about cases in which any of these can be useful.
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For many sites, you can probably just guess the bang without much hassle. The easiest example is IMDb, but my success rate guessing is pretty high. Plus, most people tend to spend most of their time on just a few sites. Knowing one or two bangs is useful enough.
I don't use this, but looking at that list, I would disagree. I just looked up some of the top sites I'd want to use and I wouldn't have guessed any of them Wikipedia -> !w Youtube -> !you reddit user -> !reu subreddit -> !reddits also !reddit points to new version, I'd want !redditold Twitter -> !tweet Steam -> !steme (???) Twitch -> !ttv That being said, if you're on DDG, there's pretty good auto complete on bangs…
The same goes for Amazon: !a, !afr, !ade, and so on...
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I just realized I need this for myself and quickly cooked up a solution using tridactyl, ddgr, and jq that fits perfectly in my workflow. Everything is reduced to just typing `:cp ` without moving to a new tab or losing flow. The entire function is basically this (requires Tridactyl native messenger). command cp js -p tri.native.run('cd ~ && ddgr --json -n 1 ' +JS_ARG + '| jq -r ".[0].url" | xclip -sel clip') [1] htt…
Is this dangerous if the link is able to inject Bash commands as the value of JS_ARG? If so, that's RCE and that's bad. Is it possible to do this using the HTML5 clipboard functions instead?
Tridactyl provides a `:shellescape` function for sanitising untrusted input but I don't think it is needed in this case.
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Is this dangerous if the link is able to inject Bash commands as the value of JS_ARG? If so, that's RCE and that's bad. Is it possible to do this using the HTML5 clipboard functions instead?
Maybe, but I'm pretty sure browsers block the clipboard functions unless they were triggered via user input. I don't know if a page load counts as a valid trigger.
!ducky
Bookmark: Python's PEPs
Location: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ducky+site%3Awww.python.org%2Fdev%2Fpeps+%22pep+%s%22
Keyword: pep
pep 8