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URL Modifier for Search Engines

Modify URLs in search results of search engines

Versione datata 21/01/2024. Vedi la nuova versione l'ultima versione.

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Autore

D.Rathburn

Valutazione

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Versione

2.0.8

Creato il

01/01/2024

Aggiornato il

21/01/2024

Licenza

GPL-2.0-only

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URL-Modifier-for-Search-Engines

Introduction

Github Repository: https://github.com/domeniczz/URL-Modifier-for-Search-Engines
Codeberg Repository: https://codeberg.org/Domenic/URL-Modifier-for-Search-Engine-Results

This Tampermonkey script enhances your search engine usage by modifying URLs in the search result of search engines, redirecting to alternative sites. Allows a more customized and efficient browsing experience.

URL modification uses Regular Expression.

Search result without URL modification

searxng_search_result_example-with_modification

Search result after URL modification

Search Engine Support

You can manually add DOM selector in the code to support other search engines.

Can't support Bing, because it only provide intermediate links.

Built-in Redirection

Wikipedia -> Wikiwand
Reddit -> Old Reddit
Quora -> Quetre (instance quetre.iket.me)
X (Twitter) -> Nitter
Youtube -> Invidious (instance yewtu.be)
Stack Overflow -> Anonymous Overflow (instance code.whatever.social)
Medium -> Freedium
NPR -> NPR Text
IMDB -> LibreMDB (instance ld.vern.cc)
Goodreads -> BiblioReads (instance bl.vern.cc)
Urban Dictionary -> Rural Dictionary (instance rd.vern.cc)
GitHub.ink -> GitHub
Imgur -> Rimgo (instance rimgo.totaldarkness.net)
Pixiv -> PixivFE (instance pixivfe.exozy.me)
Genius -> Dumb (instance dm.vern.cc)
Snopes -> Suds (instance sd.vern.cc)
ArXiv PDF -> ArXiv Abstract
...

You can add custom redirection rules into the script yourself.

Other alternatives privacy friendly frontends, see:

TODO

Add supports for more search engines.
Refactor the code to make it easier to read and modify.

Wiki

urlModificationRules

URL modification rules in regular expression

Variable	Description
matchRegex	regular expression for matching original URLs
replaceWith	regular expression for replacement

selectorRules

Selector rules for the DOM elements needs updating for search engine results

Variable	Description
selector	selector for DOM element
updateText	flag for whether to update the text or href value of the element
childSelector	selector for child DOM element under parent element
updateChildText	flag for whether to update the inner text of the child element
containProtocol	flag for whether to contain protocol (e.g. https://) in the domain
displayMethod	required, URL display method method 1: breadcrumb format method 2: full URL method 3: full URL without protocol
multiElementsForUrlDisplay	flag for whether the displayed URL is separated into multiple DOM elements

searchEngines

User-defined list of search engine domains

Variable	Description
hosts	search engine's domain
resultContainerSelectors	optional, set search result container DOM, to narrow down the range of dynamic observation