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Mr Green

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Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

Latest update looks really cool :-)

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deadrabbit

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Registered: 2008-04-26

Posts: 118

Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

The Ubiquity 0.5 update breaks the Arch BBS and AUR search commands . . . when I get a chance, I'll update the command scripts (if someone else wants to beat me to it, please do )

Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

any news on this?? I really enjoyed the ubiquity commands and now I MISS THEM!!
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t3ddy

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 12

Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

You just have to paste them in the ubiquity editor (from hack ubiquity)

CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({
  name: ["archwiki"],
  url: "http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Search?search={QUERY}&go=Go",
  icon: "http://wiki.archlinux.org/favicon.ico",
  description: "Ricerca nel Wiki di Arch."
});

CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({
  name: ["archbbs"],
  url: "http://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?action=search&keywords={QUERY}&author=&forum=-1&search_in=all&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC&show_as=topics&search=Submit",
  icon: "http://wiki.archlinux.org/favicon.ico",
  description: "Ricerca nel forum internazionale di Arch."
});

CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({
  name: ["aur-packages"],
  url: "http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K={QUERY}&SeB=nd&SB=n&SO=a&PP=25&do_Search=Go",
  icon: "http://wiki.archlinux.org/favicon.ico",
  description: "Ricerca pacchetti in AUR."
});

CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({
  name: ["archforumita"],
  url: "http://www.archlinux.it/search.php?action=search&keywords={QUERY}&author=&forum=-1&search_in=all&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC&show_as=topics&search=Submit",
  icon: "http://wiki.archlinux.org/favicon.ico",
  description: "Ricerca nel forum italiano di Arch."
});

I neither remember what I've modified

Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

many thanks (o molte grazie..! sei il teddy del forum italiano?)

t3ddy

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Registered: 2008-01-31

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Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

many thanks (o molte grazie..! sei il teddy del forum italiano?)

eh sì, sono passato un po' per caso qui e ti ho risposto
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Confuseling

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Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 13

Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

Hardly a major contribution, I know.

But some people might not realise that google has its own linux pages.

CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({
  name: ["linux"],
  url: "http://www.google.co.uk/linux?q={QUERY}&btnG=Search&meta=",
  icon: "http://www.google.co.uk/favicon.ico",
  description: "Search Google Linux."
});

Obviously that's the UK mirror - adjust as necessary. Also not entirely sure that all the arguments are optimal, but it works... (suggestions welcome!)

Last edited by Confuseling (2009-08-23 15:42:49)

deadrabbit

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Registered: 2008-04-26

Posts: 118

Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

Finally got around to updating the Arch commands after 3 months . . . check out the wiki for commands that work in Ubiquity 0.5+: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ubiquity_Commands

Please note that the non-Arch commands have not been updated yet

deadrabbit

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Registered: 2008-04-26

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Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

I also updated the man and whois searches, I didn't touch the dictionary and thesaraus . . . in fact, I considered deleting them, since they seem off topic for the Arch wiki. Does anyone else agree?

phar

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Registered: 2009-10-20

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Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

Unfortunately, it looks like Ubiquity development has stalled. Project Founder Aza Raskin and the core Ubiquity team are working on other projects and no one appears to have stepped up to manage this awesome plugin.

Something to consider before investing any time/effort in writing scripts.

LinuxPlanet Report: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6993/1/

Slashdot article: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10 … quity-Dead

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deadrabbit

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Registered: 2008-04-26

Posts: 118

Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

Yeah, I was disappointed to see that a while ago. Ubiquity still works with the current version of Firefox.

I've switched to Chromium, mostly due to the quick start time. Chromium learns which sites have search available, and then lets you search by hitting tab after entering the URL. When it works, it's very nice, but sometimes it randomly doesn't let you hit tab. Most of the time, it works for wiki.archlinux.org and aur.archlinux.org, apparently I have searched bbs.archlinux.org much lately, since that one's not working for me.

skanky

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Registered: 2009-10-23

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Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

There's been some movement in the community though: http://mozillalabs.com/ubiquity/2010/03 … refox-3-6/

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3])

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-10-12

Posts: 215

Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

Awesome plug in, it seems to work like a charm.  Can't update to the latest plug-in update though due to me using a too next-gen version of firefox. Probably also has to do with them stalling their progress at this moment.

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rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

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Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

Unfortunately, it looks like Ubiquity development has stalled. Project Founder Aza Raskin and the core Ubiquity team are working on other projects and no one appears to have stepped up to manage this awesome plugin.

An alternative to Ubiquity (at least partially) is combining bookmark-keywords with bookmarklets. For example create a bookmark with keyword 'h', and the following location:

javascript:void(location.href='http://www.google.com/search?as_q=%s&num=10&btnG=%s&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&cr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch='+location.href.split("/")[2]+'&as_rights=&safe=off')

Then you can go to  some site and do a site specific Google search  by typing "h some searchterms" in the url bar. But the javascript can be used for basically anything, not only for searches.

Last edited by rwd (2010-07-04 15:25:54)

skottish

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Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

Moving to a more appropriate home...

Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Re: Mozilla Ubiquity Scripts for Searching Arch Wiki, BBS, AUR

for those who says that ubiquity development has stalled.. it is not completely true.

Use this release community mantained and enjoy this extension also compatible with latest releases of firefox
https://bitbucket.org/satyr/ubiquity/downloads/tip.xpi