Smart URL 's in Elinks

If you have Elinks installed then it already has a bunch of smart URL’s enabled .The table below lists those in Debian’s elinks package configuration file. The Elinks Manual explains how it works and how to build your own.

Here a example, lets search for what acronym “ALSA” means with elinks.

Press g in elinks and type a: ALSA when prompted with Enter URL. The a: is the keyword and ALSA (replaced in place of %s ) is search string, elinks smart rewrite expands it to http://acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=ALSA and submits it , You will be directed to the search results at acronymfinder.com.

Elinks Smart URL’s Reference:

• a http://acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=%s
• arc http://web.archive.org/web/*/%s
• bb http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?urltext=%s
• bb_en_fr http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?lp=en_fr&submit=1&urltext=%s
• bb_fr_en http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?lp=fr_en&submit=1&urltext=%s
• bug http://bugzilla.elinks.or.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=%s
• cambridge http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?searchword=%s
• cliki http://www.cliki.net/admin/search?words=%s
• cr http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/rfcsearch.pl?searchwords=%s&format=http&abstract=abson&keywords=keyon&num=25
• czen http://www.slovnik.cz/bin/ecd?ecd_il=1&ecd_vcb=%s&ecd_trn=translate&ecd_trn_dir=1&ecd_lines=15&ecd_hptxt=0
• d http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Query=%s&Form=Dict1&Strategy=*&Database=*&submit=Submit+query
• dbug http://bugs.debian.org/%s
• dict http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s
• dmoz http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=%s
• dpkg http://packages.debian.org/%s
• draft http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/idsearch.pl?searchwords=%s&format=http&abstract=abson&keywords=keyon&num=25
• e2 http://www.everything2.org/?node=%s
• emacs http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?search=%s
• encz http://www.slovnik.cz/bin/ecd?ecd_il=1&ecd_vcb=%s&ecd_trn=translate&ecd_trn_dir=0&ecd_lines=15&ecd_hptxt=0
• fm http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=%s
• foldoc http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?%s
• fsd http://directory.fsf.org/search/fsd-search.py?q=%s
• g http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnG=Google+Search
• gd http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&cat=gwd/Top
• gg http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnG=Google+Search
• gi http://images.google.com/images?q=%s
• gn http://news.google.com/news?q=%s
• go http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnG=Google+Search
• google http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
• gr http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s
• gwhat http://www.googlism.com/?ism=%s&name=2
• gwhen http://www.googlism.com/?ism=%s&name=4
• gwhere http://www.googlism.com/?ism=%s&name=3
• gwho http://www.googlism.com/?ism=%s&name=1
• id http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/idsearch.pl?searchwords=%s&format=http&abstract=abson&keywords=keyon&num=25
• imdb http://imdb.com/Find?%s
• lxr http://lxr.linux.no/ident?i=%s
• lyrics http://music.lycos.com/lyrics/results.asp?QT=L&QW=%s
• mw http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=%s
• mwt http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/thesaurus?book=Thesaurus&va=%s
• onelook http://onelook.com/?w=%s&ls=a
• py http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/pyhelp.cgi?keyword=%s&version=current
• pydev http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/pyhelp.cgi?keyword=%s&version=devel
• pyvault http://py.vaults.ca/apyllo.py?find=%s
• rfc http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc%s.txt
• rfcid http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/idsearch.pl?searchwords=%s&format=http&abstract=abson&keywords=keyon&num=25
• rfcs http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/rfcsearch.pl?searchwords=%s&format=http&abstract=abson&keywords=keyon&num=25
• savannah http://savannah.nongnu.org/search/?words=%s&type_of_search=soft&exact=1
• sd http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=%s
• sdc http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=%s&op=comments
• sdj http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=%s&op=journals
• sdp http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=%s&op=polls
• sdu http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=%s&op=users
• sf http://sourceforge.net/search/?q=%s
• sfp http://sourceforge.net/projects/%s
• thes http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=%s
• whatis http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=%s
• wiki http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=%s
• wn http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn1.7.1?stage=1&word=%s