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Brett Terpstra edited this page Jan 15, 2023 · 10 revisions

See Installation for download and installation instructions.

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.

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

Intro to SearchLink on YouTube