Quick Web Search 🔍

Search the web and use custom aliases directly from VS Code.

Tired of copying and pasting text into your browser? Quick Web Search lets you perform searches and jump to specific documentation or tools without ever breaking your flow.

✨ Features

• Instant Selection Search: Highlight any text in your editor and run the search command to open it in Google immediately.
• Custom Search Aliases: Create your own shortcuts like yt for YouTube, gh for GitHub, or mdn for Mozilla Dev Network.
• Smart QuickPick Bar: A clean, native-feeling search bar for manual queries and alias navigation.
• Dynamic URL Placeholders: Use {query} in your custom URLs to build powerful search shortcuts for internal tools or specific docs.
• No Context Switching: Keep your focus where it belongs—on your code.

🚀 How to Use

1. Search Selected Text: Highlight a word or phrase and run the Quick Web Search: Search command (or bind it to a shortcut like Cmd+Shift+G).
2. Manual Search: Run the command without selecting text. Type your query and hit Enter.
3. Using Aliases:
   • Open the search bar.
   • Type an alias (e.g., yt) followed by your query (e.g., yt lo-fi beats).
   • Hit Enter to go straight to the results.

⚙️ Configuration

Customize your aliases in your settings.json:

"quickWebSearch.aliases": {
  "yt": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query={query}",
  "gh": "https://github.com/search?q={query}",
  "mdn": "https://developer.mozilla.org/search?q={query}",
  "cal": "https://calendar.google.com"
}

💡 Pro-tip

Bind the search command to a keybinding for maximum efficiency!

{
  "key": "ctrl+alt+s",
  "command": "quickWebSearch.search"
}