Update 05.04.2026

zsh/plugins/web-search/web-search.plugin.zsh

@@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ function web_search() {
     wolframalpha    "https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i="
     archive         "https://web.archive.org/web/*/"
     scholar         "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="
+    ask             "https://www.ask.com/web?q="
+    youtube         "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="
+    deepl           "https://www.deepl.com/translator#auto/auto/"
+    dockerhub       "https://hub.docker.com/search?q="
+    gems            "https://rubygems.org/search?query="
+    npmpkg          "https://www.npmjs.com/search?q="
+    packagist       "https://packagist.org/?query="
+    gopkg           "https://pkg.go.dev/search?m=package&q="
+    chatgpt         "https://chatgpt.com/?q="
+    grok            "https://grok.com/?q="
+    claudeai        "https://claude.ai/new?q="
+    reddit          "https://www.reddit.com/search/?q="
+    ppai            "https://www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q="
+    rscrate         "https://crates.io/search?q="
+    rsdoc           "https://docs.rs/releases/search?query="
   )
 
   # check whether the search engine is supported
@@ -34,9 +49,14 @@ function web_search() {
 
   # search or go to main page depending on number of arguments passed
   if [[ $# -gt 1 ]]; then
+    # if search goes in the query string ==> space as +, otherwise %20
+    # see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1634271/url-encoding-the-space-character-or-20
+    local param="-P"
+    [[ "$urls[$1]" == *\?*= ]] && param=""
+
     # build search url:
     # join arguments passed with '+', then append to search engine URL
-    url="${urls[$1]}$(omz_urlencode ${@[2,-1]})"
+    url="${urls[$1]}$(omz_urlencode $param ${(s: :)@[2,-1]})"
   else
     # build main page url:
     # split by '/', then rejoin protocol (1) and domain (2) parts with '//'
@@ -64,11 +84,25 @@ alias stackoverflow='web_search stackoverflow'
 alias wolframalpha='web_search wolframalpha'
 alias archive='web_search archive'
 alias scholar='web_search scholar'
+alias ask='web_search ask'
+alias youtube='web_search youtube'
+alias deepl='web_search deepl'
+alias dockerhub='web_search dockerhub'
+alias gems='web_search gems'
+alias npmpkg='web_search npmpkg'
+alias packagist='web_search packagist'
+alias gopkg='web_search gopkg'
+alias chatgpt='web_search chatgpt'
+alias grok='web_search grok'
+alias claudeai='web_search claudeai'
+alias reddit='web_search reddit'
+alias ppai='web_search ppai'
+alias rscrate='web_search rscrate'
+alias rsdoc='web_search rsdoc'
 
 #add your own !bang searches here
 alias wiki='web_search duckduckgo \!w'
 alias news='web_search duckduckgo \!n'
-alias youtube='web_search duckduckgo \!yt'
 alias map='web_search duckduckgo \!m'
 alias image='web_search duckduckgo \!i'
 alias ducky='web_search duckduckgo \!'
@@ -82,3 +116,4 @@ if [[ ${#ZSH_WEB_SEARCH_ENGINES} -gt 0 ]]; then
   done
   unset engines key
 fi
+