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SearchLink is a System Service for macOS which handles searching multiple sources and automatically generating Markdown links for text.

It works in a few ways:

• Run a quick search on a single selection, and have the selection replaced with the resulting url (and optional title) as a Markdown inline link, a Markdown reference, or just a plain url.
• Run a single search and have the results put on your clipboard, perfect for using from scripts and launchers (e.g. LaunchBar or Alfred).
• The "bracket" format, which allows you to just write, marking things to link as you go. When you're done, you can run it on the full document and --- if your queries were good --- have your links generated automatically without ever opening a browser.

This has replaced the "Auto-link web search" service in the Markdown Service Tools. The difference is that you can now mark links and specify how they should be searched for, as well as provide alternate query terms for linked text.

Run SearchLink on just the word 'help' at any time to see all available searches in your web browser.

Here's a video tutorial from Aaron Dowd (@thepodcastdude):

Also see:

Accurate searches for better results:

Browser history, bookmarks, and Pinboard search:

• Installation
• Usage
• Basic Search Format
• Advanced Search Format
• Available Searches
• Modifiers
• Reporting
• Configuration
• Adding Custom Searches
• Flags And Switches
• Searching Pinboard
• Searching Browser History And Bookmarks
• Searching GitHub
• Examples
• Converting Social Handles
• Creating Embeds
• Plugins
• Using from the Command Line