Big Search

About

Friendly to novices, satisfying to experts. For daily, entertainment & work. 🌟 Besides what any multi-engine web search tool can do (GET/POST, user custom engines, built-in Google,DuckDuckGo,Youtube,eBay,Github etc) , it also can ✨:
- 🖋️ Single-line or multi-line text
- ⌨️ Every search step can be done by just keyboard, without mouse. It's UI has built-in Vimium-like feature. Keys can quickly call different search engines
- 🖥️ Desktop (browser extension / web app) and mobile (web app)
- 🔎 Even works with websites that don't provide GET/POST interface (so-called In-page-Ajax-render websites)
- 🔎 Do many operations at once by one button
- 💪 User JSON programatical advanced customization (GUI easy editing also). Great flexibility  in engine data & search method

and so on...  Go on for readme

Disclaimer: This is an open-source user-customizable third-party tool. We are not employee or working with those search engines.

### Basic
- 🔎 Use any search engines or inquery websites (multiple simultaneously) from one page. Any websites that support GET/POST request. 
  > E.g: Google, DuckDuckGo, Youtube, eBay, Github etc. Customizable. 60+ built-in.
- 🔎 User adding custom-defined search engine (syncronizable in extension)

### More
- 🖋️ Single-line or multi-line text edit/input and sending
  > Useful when for e.g. you want to have article paragraphs translated
- 🗂️ Search engines categorization
- 📋 Save, reuse and manage your input history (only saved locally in the browser localStorage)
- 🖱️ Quickly use user selected text on webpage as search term ( context menu) 
  > - Not in Firefox incognito mode
- ⌨️ Keyboard shortcut  ( you may need to change )
  - Open popup. Firefox: `Ctrl+Alt+S`   Chrome & others：`Ctrl+Shift+S` 
  - Set selected text as search term and open popup. Firefox: `Ctrl+Alt+D`  Chrome & others：`Ctrl+Shift+D`
  >  change on Chrome: `chrome://extensions/shortcuts` 
- 🖥️ UI adapted multiply: Desktop (browser extension or web app) and mobile (web app only). Extention can show UI in: toolbar button popup UI, standalond tab, or sidebar (browser native)

### Even more: What's special about it
- 🔎 Even works with those websites that don't provide GET/POST interface to public (so-called In-page-Ajax-render websites) 
- 🔎 Do many operations at once by one button
- ✨ Good-looking, powerful and lightweight 
- 💪 Uses JSON as unified search engines database (both built-in and user-defined). Has strong flexibility & extensibility in engine data: 
  - 🔲 Multiple buttons for one engine: more than one operations for one engine. (Buttons inherit data from engine. Some key-value data ​​in button can override the ones in engine name)
  - 📞 Cross-engine use: Call another engine (or it's certain button action) to do the action
  - 🔏 String-formatting or character-replacing user's input, according to engine's need. And, charset specifying.
  - 🔎 Combining above two to search websites that don't support search

### Safety & Privacy
- 🛡️ Pure client-side tool functions fully. No necessary server. No collecting user's input or ad analyzing. 
- 🛡️ Browser extension does not inject anything to web sites. (except when using In-page-Ajax-render engine)


## How to edit search engines
Ordinary users who only use basic features can directly use our online gui engine-editing tool


(Read more at source code page:
https://github.com/garywill/BigSearch )