Omnikey is a Safari extension which allows to search websites from the address field by typing a token and a query.

For example to search for Apple on Wikipedia type we apple

Unfortunately Apple doesn't support .safariextz extensions in Safari 13 anymore.

This is a simple AppleScript replacement. It gathers the text from the address field and builds the search URL from a list of token / url pairs.

Customizing the shortcuts list is very easy. Add lines with token and url, the query is represented by the {search} placeholder

If you have a backup of your Omnikey shortcuts in JSON format, replace the enclosing square brackets [] with braces {} and remove the dictionary keys in a text editor with find & replace.

You can run the script wrapped in an Automator Service with a keyword shortcut or with third party tools like Keyboard Maestro, FastScripts, Alfred and others.

Applescript:

use AppleScript version "2.5"
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

property |⌘| : a reference to current application
property shortcuts : {{"ama", "https://www.amazon.com/s/?link_code=wsw&_encoding=UTF-8&search-alias=aps&field-keywords={search}&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0&Submit=Go"}, ¬
   {"imdb", "https://www.imdb.com/find?q={search}&s=all"}, ¬
   {"maps", "https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&authuser=0&q={search}&ie=UTF-8"}, ¬
   {"we", "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search={search}"}, ¬
   {"yt", "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query={search}"}}

activate application "Safari"
tell application "System Events"
   tell process "Safari"
       try -- Safari is in full screen mode
           set theGroup to 1st group of toolbar 1 of group 1 of window 1 whose class of text field 1 is text field
       on error -- Safari is in standard mode
           set theGroup to 1st group of toolbar 1 of window 1 whose class of text field 1 is text field
       end try
       set textValue to value of text field 1 of theGroup
   end tell
end tell

set spaceOffset to offset of space in textValue
if spaceOffset = 0 then return
set token to text 1 thru (spaceOffset - 1) of textValue
set query to text (spaceOffset + 1) thru -1 of textValue

set nsQuery to |⌘|'s NSString's stringWithString:query
set allowedPathCharacterSet to |⌘|'s NSCharacterSet's URLPathAllowedCharacterSet()
set encodedQuery to nsQuery's stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters:allowedPathCharacterSet
repeat with aShortcut in shortcuts
   set {_token, _url} to contents of aShortcut
   if _token is token then
       set queryURL to (|⌘|'s NSString's stringWithString:_url)
       set searchURL to (queryURL's stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:"{search}" withString:encodedQuery)
       tell application "Safari" to set URL of current tab of window 1 to (searchURL as text)
       exit repeat
   end if
end repeat

Last edited by StefanK (2019-09-25 01:47:41 am)