Ulauncher Wiki Search

Overview

Ulauncher extension that lets you search and open MediaWiki pages

Install

Requirements

Programs

• Ulauncher 5
• Python 3

Packages

• validators >= 0.18.2
• beautifulsoup4 >= 4.10.0
• requests >= 2.27.1
• cachetools >= 5.0.0
• mwclient >= 0.10.1

To install this extension:

1. Install required packages
2. Open Preferences window
3. Select Extensions tab
4. Click Add extension button on the sidebar
5. Paste the following url: https://github.com/zakuciael/ulauncher-wiki-search

Usage

1. Open Preferences window
2. Select Extensions tab
3. Click on Wiki Search extension
4. Set the Wiki URLs value to the list of wiki URLs separated by the | sign

URL specification

The URL can be either a hostname (e.g. en.wikipedia.org) or a full url ( e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/) and the API endpoint of the wiki needs to be located at one of those locations /api.php, /w/api.php or /wiki/api.php

Contributing

Clone this repository and run:

make link

The make link command will symlink the project into the ulauncher extensions folder.

To see your changes, stop ulauncher and run it from the command line with: make dev.

The output will display something like this:

2020-11-15 10:24:16,869 | WARNING | ulauncher.api.server.ExtensionRunner: _run_process() | VERBOSE=1 ULAUNCHER_WS_API=ws://127.0.0.1:5054/com.github.zakuciael.ulauncher-wiki-search PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages /usr/bin/python3 /home/zakku/.local/share/ulauncher/extensions/com.github.zakuciael.ulauncher-wiki-search/main.py

In another terminal run make PORT=<PORT> start command to run the extension backend.

Note: The <PORT> variable refers to the port number found in the ULAUNCHER_WS_API env located in the above log.

To see your changes, CTRL+C the previous command and run it again to refresh.

License

MIT © Krzysztof Saczuk <[email protected]>