DuckDuckGo !Bangs

A web extension for making it easier to search using DuckDuckGo !bangs. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that does not track you. DuckDuckGo !bangs allow you to search on thousands of sites, directly. This extension add two functions.

Add !bang buttons to the DuckDuckGo search results page.
add context menu to search using DuckDuckGo !bangs for selected text.

Supports 19 !bangs at the moment of over 9000 available.

Supported bangs

Google !g
Google Images: !gi
Google Maps: !gm
Google Translate: !tr
Youtube: !yt
Dictionary.com: !di
Google News: !gn
Hacker News: !hn
Facebook: !fb
Twitter: !tw
Wikipedia: !wi
IMDb: !imd
Bing: !b
Github: !git
StackOverflow: !so
Reddit: !r
Amazon: !a
Piratebay: !piratebay
Avaxhome: !avax
RaRBG: !rarbg

Credits

Aditya Mukerjee I have been using his Firefox addon for some time and it gave me the idea for the buttons. I also used his code as a starting point for adding the buttons to the search result. DuckDuckGo.com for icons, !bangs and their awesome search engine.

Possible improvements

Add custom buttons and links by providing a !bang and title.
Custom sort order of buttons.
Custom sort links in context menu.
Add buttons to other search engines like Google.

Development

Clone the repo and run npm install

git clone https://github.com/engwerda/duckduckgo-bangs.git

npm install

Gulp Tasks

Babel

gulp babel should be run before test and run a extension on browser.

gulp babel

Watch

Watch task helps you reduce your efforts during development extensions.

gulp watch

Build and Package

It will build the app as a result you can have a distribution version of the app in dist. Run this command to build the browser extension app.

gulp build

This command will compress your app built by gulp build command.

gulp package

Or create an xpi file.

gulp package-xpi

For more info: Yeoman Chrome Extension generator

License

MIT

peter505/duckduckgo-bangs