https://github.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search

Spotlight clone in Electron. It allows user to search Google, Bing and Quora from the application.
https://github.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search

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Spotlight clone in Electron. It allows user to search Google, Bing and Quora from the application.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search
• Owner: riteshkukreja
• Created: 2017-11-22T16:38:30.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-08-06T17:25:57.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-04T22:31:17.783Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: desktop-app, electron, javascript, nodejs, search
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 7.86 MB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# Quick Search

Spotlight clone in Electron. It allows user to search Google, Bing, Quora and Desktop applications from the application.

## Commands

| Task | Command |

| --- | --- |

| See all apps | `apps:` |

| See history | `history:` |

| See configurations | `configs:` |

| Clear history | `history:clear` |

| Search for app | `apps:` or `` |

| Search on default search engine | `` |

| Search on google | `google:` |

| Search on bing | `bing:` |

| Search on quora | `quora:` |

| Execute terminal command | `` press enter or `cmd:` |

## Building from source

It uses `electron-packager` to build native application executable. To build executable, run

```s

npm run package

```

## Screenshots

### Terminal Command Execution

![Terminal Command](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search/master/screenshots/terminal.png)

### All apps

![Terminal Command](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search/master/screenshots/all_apps.png)

### Search app

![Terminal Command](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search/master/screenshots/search_app.png)

### Search Google

![Terminal Command](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search/master/screenshots/search_google.png)

### Search Bing

![Terminal Command](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search/master/screenshots/search_bing.png)

### Search Quora

![Terminal Command](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search/master/screenshots/search_quora.png)

### History

![Terminal Command](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search/master/screenshots/history.png)

### Configurations

![Terminal Command](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search/master/screenshots/config.png)

### Architecture of application

![Architecture](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riteshkukreja/quick-search/dev/screenshots/architecture.png)

## TODOs

-   [x] Remove automatic execution of terminal command with `cmd:` flag.

-   [x] Remove execution of terminal commmand on enter-press.

-   [x] Add hook to handle input on key-press to perform some operations (app search or hints) without delay.

-   [ ] Make search flags more visible to user by showing the options in start screen.

-   [ ] Remove search back-end and move to apis for google, bing and quora.

-   [ ] Allow apis key insertion in configurations.

-   [ ] Allow editibility in configurations.

-   [x] Make app search faster.

-   [ ] Add funtionality for calculator, weather, wikipedia and google translate.

-   [ ] Move from app.cache file to db.

-   [ ] Add directory hierarchy to services.

-   [ ] Move to Typescript?

-   [x] Move from `history:clear` command to gui option to clear history.

-   [x] Add hook to do custom operations such as execute terminal commands, clear history