{"id":844,"date":"2003-01-06T17:24:17","date_gmt":"2003-01-07T09:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/07\/searchling\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T10:52:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:52:02","slug":"searchling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/06\/searchling\/","title":{"rendered":"Searchling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15543,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web.ics.purdue.edu\\\/~mthole\\\/searchling&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050204164018\\\/http:\\\/\\\/web.ics.purdue.edu:80\\\/%7emthole\\\/searchling\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 19:47:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 19:47:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I just stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/web.ics.purdue.edu\/~mthole\/searchling\/\" title=\"Searchling v1.1\">Searchling<\/a>, a very cool little mini-application for OS X. When running, it adds a system-wide search field that allows you to search Google, Slashdot, or a few other sites.<\/p>\n<p>The coolest bit, though, is that the search options are defined by a simple XML file. So, I did a bit of digging, figured out the syntax (which really wasn&#8217;t all that hard), and added djwudi.com to the search options!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Searchling djwudi.com screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/01\/graphics\/searchling.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"90\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the off chance that another OS X user might want to add me to Searchling, here&#8217;s the code to add:<\/p>\n<pre><code>&lt;dict&gt;\n&lt;key&gt;name&lt;\/key&gt;\n&lt;string&gt;djwudi.com&lt;\/string&gt;\n&lt;key&gt;types&lt;\/key&gt;\n&lt;array&gt;\n&lt;dict&gt;\n&lt;key&gt;type&lt;\/key&gt;\n&lt;string&gt;Web&lt;\/string&gt;\n&lt;key&gt;url&lt;\/key&gt;\n&lt;string&gt;http:\/\/www.djwudi.com\/cgi-bin\/search\/search.pl?\nnocpp=1&amp;Match=1&amp;Realm=All&amp;Terms=&lt;\/string&gt;\n&lt;\/dict&gt;\n&lt;\/array&gt;\n&lt;\/dict&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>(Note: the string between <code>&lt;string&gt;<\/code> and <code>&lt;\/string&gt;<\/code> is one continuous line, a linebreak has been added here for readability.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> As I&#8217;m no longer weblogging at djwudi.com, the above XML snippet won&#8217;t actually work. I&#8217;m leaving it up here, though, as a handy example of how to add things to Searchling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled across Searchling, a very cool little mini-application for OS X. When running, it adds a system-wide search field that allows you to search Google, Slashdot, or a few other sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}