[qutebrowser] new protocols

Ryan rcore at fastmail.fm
Wed Jan 23 17:04:30 CET 2019


A searchengine is essentially a string substitution. A userscript is a full-fledged executable with infinite possibilities. These infinite possibilities include infinite possible bugs and security risks :)

If a searchengine works for your use case, keep it simple and stick with that. Userscripts are useful for advanced processing or integration with external tools, like a password manager.

You might glance at some if the scripts included in qutebrowser if you're curious.

-Ryan

On January 22, 2019 9:46:33 PM EST, Luis Mochan <mochan at icf.unam.mx> wrote:
>Another question,
>I found out about the userscripts in qutebrowser. I guess they could
>also be used, as well as the solution below, for translating from a
>doi number to an access into the doi webpage and the actual article. 
>What would be the advantages/disadvantages of a userscript solution as
>compared to the c.url.searchengines one?
>Regards,
>Luis
>
>
>On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 03:54:26PM -0600, Luis Mochan wrote:
>> Hi Patric,
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 01:07:47PM +0100, Patric Schmitz via
>qutebrowser wrote:
>> > ...
>> > could it be sufficient to define a search engine for this? So
>create an
>> > entry in c.url.searchengines in your config.py like
>> > 
>> > 'doi': 'https://doi.org/{}',
>> > 
>> > which will allow you to just write
>> > 
>> > doi ...
>> > 
>> > in the address line? It won't be possible to click URL links of the
>form you
>> > mentioned, but maybe that's enough for your usecase?
>> 
>> Yes, indeed. Thanks!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Luis
>> 
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