URL Modifier for Search Engines

D.Rathburn
2024-01-01T07:54:07Z

This Tampermonkey script enhances your search engine usage by modifying (redirecting) URLs in the search result of search engines, redirecting to alternative sites, allowing for a more customized and efficient browsing experience. You can also add you custom URL modification rule to the script and are welcomed to commit your rules to this script to make it much more useful.

URL-Modifier-for-Search-Engine-Results

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Introduction

Github Repository: https://github.com/domeniczz/URL-Modifier-for-Search-Engines

Codeberg Repository: https://codeberg.org/Domenic/URL-Modifier-for-Search-Engine-Results

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This Tampermonkey script enhances your search engine usage by modifying URLs in the search result of search engines, redirecting to alternative sites, allowing for a more customized and efficient browsing experience. You can also add you custom URL modification rule to the script and are welcomed to commit your rules to this script to make it much more useful.

URL modification uses Regular Expression.

Search result without URL modification:

Search result after URL modification:

Search Engine Support

Google

Bing

Yahoo

Yahoo Japan ヤフー

Baidu

Yandex

SearXNG

StartPage

Brave

DuckDuckGo

Ghostery

Presearch

Metager

4get

LibreY

Stract

Whoogle

eTools

Mojeek

Yep

Torry

Qwant

Ecosia

Oscobo

GOOD

All the internet

Searchalot

AOL

OneSearch

Info

OceanHero

Swisscows

Lilo

Entireweb

TadaDoo

GMX

YouCare

Lycos

AlohaFind

Murena Spot

Qmamu

Carrot2

Nona

SAPO

Exalead

Biglobe ビッグローブ

Goo 検索

Walla! וואלה! חיפוש

Cốc Cốc

Seznam

StartSiden SØK

Marginalia

Mwmbl

Naver 네이버

Gibiru

Lukol

Draze

Yelliot

eFind

Fireball

Freespoke

GoGoPrivate

Result Hunter

GiveWater

Excite

WebCrawler

MetaCrawler

Dogpile

Infospace

RefSeek

ZapMeta

iZito

Ask

Pronto

Anoox

Kagi

You can manually add DOM selector in the code to support other search engines.

For search engine Bing, if you get redirection link "https://www.bing.com/ck/a..." in search results, disabling "Open links in a new tab or window" in the Bing settings can get rid of it.

For search engines like Yahoo, Lycos, AlohaFind, the script support getting rid of redirection links and extract the real URL. For example, the Yahoo redirection link is "https://r.search.yahoo.com/...". If you do not use these search engines, you can choose to use URL modification rules without redirection link compatibility. BTW, you can see all built-in RegEx URL modification rules here.

For Baidu, the script can get rid of redirection link of text search results, but won't work for image and video results. Because the principle is extract the original URL link explicitly shown in the DOM elements of search results. Baidu does not provide original link explicitly for some results, thus, the script won't work for that kinds of results. FYI, tampermonkey script AC-baidu_RedirectRemove can get rid of all uncessary redirection for Baidu.

Just a side note, Kagi is a search engine with built-in URL redirection functionality, worth trying out. I am a user of Kagi, and I am very satisfied with this product, so I'm giving them a shout-out here.

Find more search engines:

Search Engine Map

Search Engine Party

Built-in Redirection

Wikipedia -> Wikiwand

Reddit -> Libreddit (e.g. safereddit.com)

Quora -> Quetre (e.g. quetre.iket.me)

X (Twitter) -> Nitter (Has been discontinued)

Stack Overflow -> Anonymous Overflow (e.g. code.whatever.social)

Medium -> Freedium

Youtube -> Invidious (e.g. yewtu.be)

Youtube Music -> Hyperpipe (e.g. hyperpipe.surge.sh)

Twitch -> SafeTwitch (e.g. ttv.vern.cc)

IMDB -> LibreMDB (e.g. ld.vern.cc)

Goodreads -> BiblioReads (e.g. bl.vern.cc)

Urban Dictionary -> Rural Dictionary (e.g. rd.vern.cc)

GitHub.ink -> GitHub

Hacker news -> hckrnws (e.g. hckrnws.com)

Fandom -> BreezeWiki (e.g. antifandom.com)

Reuters -> Neuters (e.g. nu.vern.cc)

Financial Times -> Webpage Archive

Bloomberg -> Webpage Archive

NPR -> NPR Text

Snopes -> Suds (e.g. sd.vern.cc)

Instructables -> Destructables (e.g. ds.vern.cc)

Genius -> Dumb (e.g. dm.vern.cc)

Bandcamp -> Tent (e.g. tn.vern.cc)

Imgur -> Rimgo (e.g. rimgo.totaldarkness.net)

Pixiv -> PixivFE (e.g. pixivfe.exozy.me)

Know Your Meme -> MeMe (e.g. mm.vern.cc)

Tenor -> Soprano (e.g. sp.vern.cc)

iFunny -> UNfunny (e.g. uf.vern.cc)

ArXiv PDF (arxiv.org/pdf/*.pdf) -> ArXiv Abstract (arxiv.org/abs/*)

...

You can add custom redirection rules into the script yourself.

Other alternatives privacy friendly frontends, see:

LibRedirect

Alternative Frontends

Alternative Front Ends

farside.link

Service providers:

vern.cc

lunar.icu

projectsegfau.lt

privacydev.net

frontendfriendly.xyz

pussthecat.org

tiekoetter.com

...

For easy usage, we could use Farside that automatically redirect to working instances of privacy-oriented alternative frontends instead of writing regular expression rules on our own.

However, this method does not support finer-grained control over matched URLs and it is really slow since a redirection by farside is needed.

FYI, wiki for setting up farside in Redirector: https://github.com/benbusby/farside/wiki/Browser-Extension

Include pattern example: ^(?:https?:\/\/)(?:[\w-]+\.|)((?:imdb|imgur|instagram|medium|odysee|quora|reddit|tiktok|twitter|wikipedia|youtube)\.(?:[a-z]+).*)

Redirect to: https://farside.link/$1

Add to script:

  const urlModificationRules = [
      {
          matchRegex: new RegExp(/^(?:https?:\/\/)(?:[\w-]+\.|)((?:imdb|imgur|instagram|medium|odysee|quora|reddit|tiktok|twitter|wikipedia|youtube)\.(?:[a-z]+).*)/),
          replaceWith: 'https://farside.link/$1'
      },
      // ...
  ];

Example URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123

Result URL: https://farside.link/youtube.com/watch?v=abc123

TODO

1. Add supports for more search engines.

2. Refactor the code to make it easier to read and modify.

Wiki