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Show HN: Jumprope - Terminal-like commands for the Chrome search
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Author : scottfits
Score : 43 points
Date : 2021-04-27 16:40 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| muhammadusman wrote:
| reminds me of autojump on the command line, I bet this can be
| immensely useful if it didn't rely only on searching and
| bookmarking, e.g. "jira create 'user auth setup'" (this would
| create a ticket in jira with that title)
| scottfits wrote:
| yes, i love autojump for terminal, definitely part of the
| inspiration for this. And I agree on adding more utility to
| create / edit - we are going in this direction for example
| jumprope has these commands:
|
| c1 new - create a new calendar invite
|
| m1 new - create a new email in gmail
| scottfits wrote:
| Hey y'all, I built this after working at Facebook and using the
| much-loved internal tool called bunnylol. You could do things
| like looking up users with commands like "id 124124512" to pull
| up a specific fb account.
|
| Would love for you to try it out and give feedback!
| mavsman wrote:
| Looks useful but memorizing commands can be challenging. I'm
| guessing there's something in mind for this...
|
| What is the AI aspect of it? (assuming based on the URL)
| scottfits wrote:
| to be honest there is no AI yet - the vision is to have
| predictive suggestions, automatically open the first result
| on the page if beyond a certain confidence threshold, etc!
|
| and yes, I do agree memorization is hard with more than a few
| commands. I am trying to solve it by adding jumps to the
| search suggestions, so when you type things like drive.google
| a search suggestion will say "tip, use gd to open or search
| google drive"
| geoah wrote:
| Hey, congrats on launching this. Worked like a charm and
| overall looks really polished.
|
| I'd be interesting in using this but if I understand correctly
| this works by replacing the search functionality which means
| all my searches go to jumprope. I am not sure if there is a way
| around this in chrome but for me it's a deal breaker.
| scottfits wrote:
| thanks for the feedback! we don't save searches, but I see
| the concern and we may release an update where your jumps are
| stored locally in browser storage and only routed through
| Jumprope if its in the local jump list
| JoshCole wrote:
| Thanks for this. I appreciate this type of product and will
| likely use it. Right now I'm not able to because it doesn't
| seem to be playing well with Brave. Clicking add command takes
| me to the homepage. No add command functionality is surfaced.
|
| One question I have is why is this preferable to creating these
| commands using the browser search engine integration directly?
| They support keyword prefixes. They support a command line like
| pass through structure.
| scottfits wrote:
| i think this problem happens on brave because there is no
| user account and it needs to have an email to create the
| account.
|
| there are a couple benefits to building it this way, for
| example sharing commands across an organization is now
| possible (so for example you can create a command and make it
| available to your company to use.)
|
| for example, we use it at my company AirGarage to search
| django admin, open company zoom links, open reports, etc and
| if one person adds a command everyone can use it
| knubie wrote:
| Great idea! This looks really handy. I just tried installing it
| but when I try to click "add command" or "see command" it just
| redirects to the home page.
| scottfits wrote:
| this may happen if you don't have a user account signed in in
| Chrome? Jumprope needs an email to create your account.
|
| let me know if this is the wrong diagnosis.
| felixmc wrote:
| facebook has something like this internally (bunnylol),
| everyone's browser uses an internal search engine by default that
| parses the query into commands that can take args and often route
| to internal tools, etc it's pretty neat, the open source version
| is called bunny1
| scottfits wrote:
| yes! my time working there using bunnylol for everything was
| actually the inspiration for the tool :)
| m_x wrote:
| For the search use case, I use Firefox search keywords [1]. It
| avoids a useless redirection through duckduckgo ; I use
| duckduckgo bangs when I don't have a keyword configured.
|
| You can even add search keywords by right clicking on a search
| field -> "Add a keyword for this search". It works on intranets
| and internal knowledge bases too.
|
| [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-
| address...
| behnamoh wrote:
| This. In addition, you can use "Custom Search Engine" extension
| on Firefox to create custom search queries on Amazon, YouTube,
| etc. with keyboard shortcuts. For example, if I want to search
| for something on Amazon, I type "AA{space}USB Dongle" and it
| automatically searches the Amazon for "USB Dongle". The neat
| thing is that I customized the search URL so that "AA" also
| filters the results (shows only +4-star products, New, and
| Prime).
|
| I've done similar thing with YouTube where I type "YY{space}"
| from anywhere and end up searching on YouTube.
| jayross2730 wrote:
| About page is not found
| scottfits wrote:
| thank you
| Chief_Emerie wrote:
| Cheers! This has been a great productivity booster. I can search
| my django admin instantly and with ease.
| andihow wrote:
| you can literally just do this with bookmarks and '%s' - for
| example set the bookmark destination to
| https://www.google.com/search?q=%s and set the bookmark's keyword
| to 'google'.
|
| you can now trigger a google search by typing "google [search
| term here]"
|
| ...after typing all this out i realize google is a redundant
| example but you get the idea
| Arelius wrote:
| Looks neat, and similar to ddg's bang searches. I set ddg as my
| default search engine, and use it similarly, `!tw Joe Biden` in
| my Firefox search bar to search for tweets about Joe Biden and
| the like.
| nr2x wrote:
| Recently switched from many, many years of DDG back to Google
| and I really miss bangs...otherwise, results are way better.
| behnamoh wrote:
| Why did you switch?
| scottfits wrote:
| oh thanks for the heads up, yes looks similar. But Jumprope
| hopefully has a couple more perks:
|
| You can create your own shortcuts at https://jumprope.ai
| without needing to submit them to ddg
|
| You can also do alias commands - for example I set it up so
| "prs" opens me github pull requests page for example and "zm"
| opens the company zoom link
|
| but yes thanks for the heads up!
| andrewjmg wrote:
| how exactly do I create my own shortcuts? I can only see the
| landing page.
| scottfits wrote:
| Perhaps your sign up did not work - you have to have a
| google chrome account with an email address and then
| install the extension here.
|
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jumprope/peljbehf
| b...
|
| if that doesnt work please reach out to scott@jumprope.ai
| and i will investigate
| yewenjie wrote:
| There is duckduckgo bangs which has over 13000 custom site
| searches [1]. Also, you can write your own complex regex based
| replacements using Redirector [2] - the potentials are infinite!
|
| [1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang
|
| [2] https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
| scottfits wrote:
| Thanks for pointing out bangs, it's definitely a good product
| too. I do think Jumprope has a couple legs up:
|
| You can create your own shortcuts at https://jumprope.ai
| without needing to submit them to ddg for approval
|
| You can also do alias commands - for example I set it up so
| "prs" opens me github pull requests page for example and "zm"
| opens the company zoom link
|
| but yes looks like bangs has some cool regex manipulation but
| hopefully Jumprope is easier to get started with.
| anotheryou wrote:
| if you could make it work offline that would be a big plus
| samhh wrote:
| If you're willing to get your hands a little dirty you may
| like bangin: https://sr.ht/~samhh/bangin/
| anotheryou wrote:
| But I can't type in the browser bar than right? hmm
|
| edit: uh oh, i see: "With the use of bangin-server-node
| it is possible to use bangin as the search engine in your
| web browser. "
|
| I'm about 90% there already with other hacks, just stuck
| to having + signs instead of spaces :)
|
| My ridiculous way:
|
| - https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
|
| - some local-host open-search plugin meant for self
| hosted searx. Adds a bunch of junk parameters but
| searches on localhost:8888/q=SEARCHTEAM%morecrap
|
| - set it to my default search
|
| - some redicoulous regex trying to catch the search term
| after the bang !z
|
| ^(?:http:\/\/localhost:8888\/\?q=%21z\\+)(.*)&language=en
| &time_range=&safesearch=0&categories=general
|
| - same without the bang for fallback redirecting to
| duckduckgo
| [deleted]
| 1cvmask wrote:
| Hello there. Your about page returns a 404.
| scottfits wrote:
| oops thank you
| ianwalter wrote:
| It does tell you something about them though, like the fact
| that they are using Next.js, haha.
| POiNTx wrote:
| I've tried sending a mail to hello@jumprope.ai to apply for the
| firefox beta, but it gave an error saying "the address couldn't
| be found, or is unable to receive mail".
|
| In any case, good luck! This seems like something I'd want to
| use!
| scottfits wrote:
| sorry, thanks i forgot to set that up. if you email me at
| scott@jumprope.ai i will add you to the firefox list
| RileyJames wrote:
| In case you are selectively forwarding mail, I'd suggest
| forwardemail.net Wild card or specify addresses. It's been a
| game changer for me to centralise email across side projects
| and mini sites. Also fully functional on the free plan.
|
| Too many solutions just didn't quite work, or were a pain to
| setup. Losing email sucks, and not knowing you're missing
| them leads to unnecessary paranoia.
| nathancahill wrote:
| ForwardEmail is fantastic. Use it for all side projects.
| orliesaurus wrote:
| I love this idea, I would use this every day if it was native to
| my Android and Desktop Chrome, does the extension read/send any
| of my data anywhere? (Incl. Usage)
| mikewhy wrote:
| It's not super obvious, but chrome and Edge already support a
| sort of keyword lookup for history entries. IE I type "github
| repo pulls" and the top suggestion is for
| "github.com/company/repo/pulls".
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