Keywurl A plugin for Safari that adds keyword search to the browser’s location bar.
Keywurl adds simple way of performing searches in Safari by letting you type short keywords as queries. Type a keyword and a query in the address bar, and it will be expanded into a predefined search.
For example, you can map wiki to Wikipedia:
When you hit Return, you will end up here:
Keywurl comes with a handful of such predefined keywords, including:
And it’s really easy to add your own.
Forget the search box. Just type anything in the address bar: Keywurl lets you set up a default search that is used as a catch-all when what you type in the address bar is not an URL. Just type Richard Feynman and it will give you the Google results.
You can also create a new keyword just by right-clicking on any text field in any web page form, and selecting Create Keyword. Keywurl takes care of the dirty details.
There's no magic syntax to set up keywords: Instead, the address field shows the substitutions using nice, friendly, little blue bubble shapes. The available substitutions are shown in a separate box, and you can drag them with the mouse into the address field. Visual editing, yay!
Pssst, Sogudi users! Keywurl is backwards-compatible with Sogudi. You can migrate your existing Sogudi keywords by copying ~/Library/Application Support/SogudiShortcuts.plist into ~/Library/Application Support/Keywurl and renaming the file to Keywords.plist.
Keywurl should now finally work on Snow Leopard in 64-bit mode, thanks to the brilliant... Read more
For Tiger and Safari 3 support, try the older versions:
Interested in the code? Get the Git repository on GitHub.
Found a bug or need support? Use the issue tracker.
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