like surfraw, but not a million fucking lines long.

surfboard.sh

#!/bin/bash

# like surfraw, but not a million fucking lines long.
# requires dmenu.
# the default search engine is shown at first.
# to select another search engine, press enter when
# the prompt is empty in dmenu.

# name of the default search engine
default='Searx'

# array of search engines
# if a search engine has multiple URLs, one of them is used at random
declare -A engines=(
    [Searx]='
        https://searx.tiekoetter.com/search?q=%s
        https://searx.be/search?q=%s'
    [1337x]='https://1337x.to/srch?search=%s'
    [CloudTorrents]='https://cloudtorrents.com/search?query=%s'
    [PB]='https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=%s'
    [YTS]='https://yts.mx/search-movies?query=%s'
    [Arch Wiki]='https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?search=%s'
    [AUR]='https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=%s'
    [Arch Pkg]='https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=%s'
    [Github]='https://github.com/search?q=%s'
    [Chocolatey]='https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=%s'
    [Firefox Addons]='https://addons.mozilla.org/search/?q=%s'
    [Reddit]='https://libreddit.tiekoetter.com/search?q=%s'
    [Stack Exchange]='https://stackexchange.com/search?q=%s'
    [Stack Overflow]='https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%s'
    [AllDataSheet]='https://www.alldatasheet.com/view.jsp?Searchword=%s'
    [WineHQ]='https://www.winehq.org/search?q=%s'
    [Wikipedia]='https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s'
    [Artix Pkg]='https://gitea.artixlinux.org/explore/repos?q=%s'
    [YouTube]='https://piped.kavin.rocks/results?search_query=%s'
    [Gentoo Wiki]='https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?search=%s'
    [Odysee]='https://odysee.com/$/search?q=%s'
    [KnowYourMeme]='https://odysee.com/$/search?q=%s'
)

colors='-sb #423e17'

set -e

# start with the default search engine
sel=$default
query=$(dmenu -p "Search $sel" $colors <&-)

# if the query is empty, ask for another search engine from the user
if [[ -z $query ]]; then
    sel=$(printf '%s\n' "${!engines[@]}" | dmenu -p 'Choose an Engine' $colors)
    query=$(dmenu -p "Search $sel" $colors <&-)
fi

# URL-encode the query
query=$(
    while IFS= read -rn1 c; do
        [[ -z $c ]] && continue
        case $c in
            [a-zA-Z0-9.~_-]) printf '%s' "$c" ;;
            *) printf '%%%02X' "'$c" ;;
        esac
    done <<< "$query"
)

# if multiple engine URLs are specified, choose one randomly
engine=()
while read -r line; do
    case $line in
        *[a-zA-Z]*) engine+=("$line") ;;
    esac
done <<< "${engines[$sel]}"
engine=${engine[RANDOM % ${#engine[@]}]}

# open the search URL
exec ${BROWSER:-xdg-open} "$(printf "${engine##* }\n" "$query")"