direct search from terminal (cli) into default browser | desktop and mobile (termux)

search-into-browser.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Function to handle errors and exit the script
function handle_error {
	echo "Error: $1"
	exit 1
}

# Associative array to store website URLs
declare -A websites
websites["Google Search"]="https://google.com/search?q=%s"
websites["Stack Overflow"]="https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%s"
websites["Youtube"]="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s"
websites["Github"]="https://github.com/search?q=%s&ref=simplesearch&type=repositories"
websites["Twitter"]="https://twitter.com/search?q=%s"
websites["Hacker News"]="https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%s"
websites["Google Images"]="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%s"
# websites[""]=""

# Prompt the user to select a website
PS3="Select a website (type the number and press Enter): "
select website_name in "${!websites[@]}"; do
	if [ -n "$website_name" ]; then
		break
	else
		echo "Invalid selection. Please try again."
	fi
done

# Get the URL for the selected website from the associative array
website_url="${websites[$website_name]}"

# Prompt the user to enter a search query
read -p "Enter the search query: " search_query

# Replace "%s" in the URL with the search query
full_url="${website_url//\%s/$search_query}"

# Open the URL in the default web browser
if command -v xdg-open >/dev/null; then
	nohup xdg-open "$full_url" &
elif command -v start >/dev/null; then
	nohup start "$full_url" &
else
	handle_error "Cannot open the web browser."
fi