https://github.com/mrpandey/omnibang
Browser extension for searching popular websites directly from address bar
https://github.com/mrpandey/omnibang
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Browser extension for searching popular websites directly from address bar
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mrpandey/omnibang
- Owner: mrpandey
- License: mit
- Created: 2018-07-09T16:27:35.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-01-25T14:39:59.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-27T09:12:35.235Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: accessibility, browser-extension, chrome-extension, duckduckgo, firefox-addon
- Language: HTML
- Homepage: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blmikombemiddkippgjijjgpdofliogo
- Size: 216 KB
- Stars: 34
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 4
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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Note: This is no longer maintained. But feel free to use it if it works in your browser. I don't maintain it anymore because Vivaldi is now my main browser, where I can have a search bar next to the URL. URL bar has Google as the default search, and the search bar has DDG as the default. So I can now easily access the bangs without using this extension.
# Omnibang
A very simple Chrome/Firefox extension that enables a user to search websites directly from the address bar.
It is based on [bangs](https://duckduckgo.com/bang) provided by DuckDuckGo and works in a similar way. The two main differences are:
- DuckDuckGo follows the format `!bang search-term`, whereas Omnibang follows `! bang search-term`.
- Omnibang works even if DuckDuckGo isn't your default search engine.
FAQ: Chrome and Firefox already provide custom search engines. What's different here?
- Browser custom search works when the website you want to search is already present in your history and cache.
Bangs works independent of history and cache.
- The keywords of custom search by default are the complete domain names. You can shorten them, but its manual work.
DuckDuckGo provides 100s of predefined short-codes (bangs) which are easy to remember. Some bangs are listed at the bottom of this page.
| Some | Popular | Bangs|
| --- | --- | --- |
| GitHub: `gh` | Stack Overflow: `so` | Stack Exchange: `se` |
| Mozilla Developer Network: `mdn` | MS Developer Network: `msdn` | Codepen: `cpen` |
| Reddit: `r` | Quora: `q` | Amazon: `a` |
| Wikipedia: `w` | Medium: `med` | Bing: `b` |
| Google: `g` | DuckDuckGo: `ddg` | Yahoo: `y` |
| Google Maps: `maps` | Facebook: `fb` | Twitter: `tw` |
| Spotify: `spt` | SoundCloud: `sc` | YouTube: `yt` |
See the complete list of bangs [here](https://duckduckgo.com/bang).
## Installation
Follow these links:
- [Omnibang for Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blmikombemiddkippgjijjgpdofliogo)
- [Omnibang for Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/omnibang/)
## To-Do List
- [ ] Port to Opera
- [ ] Port to Vivaldi
## License
Copyright (c) 2018-19 [Avinash Pandey](http://mrpandey.com). Licensed under [MIT License](https://github.com/mrpandey/omnibang/blob/master/LICENSE).