golinks is a web app that allows you to create smart bookmarks, commands and aliases by pointing your web browser's default search engine at a running instance. Similar to bunny1 or yubnub.

$ go get github.com/prologic/golinks

There is a formula provided that you can tap and install from prologic/homebrew-golinks:

$ brew tap prologic/golinks
$ brew install golinks

NB: This installs the latest released binary; so if you want a more recent unreleased version from master you'll have to clone the repository and build yourself.

Run golinks:

$ golinks -bind 127.0.0.1:8000 -fqdn localhost:8000

Set your browser's default golinks engine to http://localhost:8000/?q=%s

• Instructions for Chrome
• Instructions for Firefox

Then type help to view the main help page, g foo bar to perform a Google search for "foo bar" or list to list all available commands.

To add a bookmark (or overwrite an existing one), enter add [name] [url] as your search query, where name is the shortcut for the bookmark and url the URL:

add imdb https://www.imdb.com

Now you can just enter imdb in your search bar to go straight to imdb.com.

You can also add %s to your URL, which will be replaced with your search query:

add ddg https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

Now you can use ddg [query] to search via DuckDuckGo, e.g. ddg free stuff to find yourself some free stuff.

To remove a search, use remove [name], so remove ddg will remove the above search.

Use list to see all your bookmarks and commands (golinks comes with several useful built-ins) and help to view the online help page.

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golinks is considered "production" software and is used daily. If you find this interresting or useful please fork and contribute back via pull-requests! If you find bugs or have ideas for new features, please file an issue!

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