Adds the option to search selected text on external websites, like Google and Wikipedia. You can add your own websites! They’ll open in iframes by default.
For each website, fill in the following three fields:
Name: The name of the search. This will be displayed in the search bar and the context menu.
URL: The URL to open. {{title}} will be replaced by the current notes title. This is used as the ‘query’.
Tags (optional): A list of tags for notes to display the search option on.
In the example screenshot, this is used to only add the IMDB search on notes tagged with #actor, #movie or #director (in Dutch!)
It’s recommended to assign the command: “Search on Internet: Perform search” to a hotkey:
Thanks! That’s what customizable is for. Google and Wikipedia are mostly provided as examples, anyways (I do wonder why you think Wikipedia sucks though!)
Tried your plug-in really like it works very well.
And about why I don’t like Wikipedia:
Wikipedia is quite biased politically (the co-founder, Larry Sanger denounced Wikipedia because of that) and for general info it’s only good for surface level information. Anything more in depth will be misrepresented in some way, so it’s better to do your own research on the topics.
For political/cultural events a lot of their sourcing relies on basic opinion pieces or for the mostly partisan spun news that tends to misrepresent events or might even push propaganda. Wiki for the most part uses those sources as evidence for their political entries even non-political entries as well. On top of that most Wiki articles are heavily opinionated based and there is enough info to suggest it’s politically biased, not centrist or non-partisan at all.
If you want analysis, facts or primary sourcing Wikipedia is the worst website to read, (unless you will go to each wiki source yourself reading those and skipping the entire wiki article as well as other sources you found yourself)
But even if you disagree with what I said above, Wikipedia themselves admits that they are not a reliable source to look at or quote from.
Indeed, this is a Google cookie wall, I think. For some reason, I don’t have it… I think I managed to remove it by logging in to Google Calendar. If this is a common issue I’ll have to change the default search engine.
Hi @Emile,
I don’t know why and how, but it seems that I’ve just lost the ability to see the context menu for external links … I was using it extensively so it must have happened today or very recently otherwise I would have noticed it before.
Maybe due to another plugin update, I don’t know.
Anyone else with this issue?
Hi. This has been happening since a recent update of Obsidian. They’ve changed how to interact with the editor. I have to look into how to fix this, but it might not be possible currently.
First, thanks for an awesome tool. Really nicely integrated browser view and also simple to add other search engines like e.g. Talk to Books using the plugin settings. One thing I struggle to set up though is to get the search result to open in split view instead of a new tab in the same pane. Has anyone else used that kind of setup?
I’ve selected the iframes option but as of a few months ago all my searches are opening in new tabs not in iframes or to the right of the currrent open tab. Any way to fix this?