how to search from a webpage?

[jackbox]

Is there a way to call Everything from a webpage to search for files on my PC?

say, I am browsing a webpage about Royal Canin cat food and notice a product called "Royal Canin KITTY", I highlight "Royal Canin KITTY," right-click to search, and then Everything immediately pops up, showing a file named "Royal Canin KITTY.xlsx" on my computer.

any suggestions?

[therube]

What is URL protocol for?

how to add everything as a search engine in firefox?


And in Everything 1.5 Alpha, you can use the

clipboard:

feature.
(Set your search to clipboard: & anything copied to clipboard will be searched for.)

[NotNull]

More options ..

[klarah]

i made a browserextension for chrome i want to share here. Its just basic but allows the configuration of additionell searchparameters in its options. Their presets can be edited in options.js.

It uses a server (server.py) on http://localhost:5000 to pass the parameters to everything. This server must run in the background and is not being started automatically. i made also an exe version of server.py with pyinstaller, which is IMO easier to handle, but i cannot include it here since virustotal classifies it as malicious.
There is a textfile in the zipfile of the package which describes the installation and usage in detail (the credit goes to ChatGPT..)

[jackbox]

therube
it worked, never thought it would be this easy. Thank you!

klarah
thank you for your extension. I can't use it on my work computer. Maybe I'll try again when back home.