URL-Modifier-for-Search-Engine-R###lts

Introduction

Github Repository: https://github.com/domeniczz/URL-Modifier-for-Search-Engines
Codeberg Repository: https://codeberg.org/Domenic/URL-Modifier-for-Search-Engine-R###lts

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This Tampermonkey script enhances your search engine usage by modifying URLs in the search r###lt 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 r###lt without URL modification:

img:searxng_search_r###lt_example-with_modification

Search r###lt after URL modification:

Search Engine Support

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

Can't support Bing, because it only provide intermediate links.

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.

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:

Built-in Redirection

Wikipedia -> Wikiwand
Reddit -> Libreddit (e.g. safereddit.com)
Quora -> Quetre (e.g. quetre.iket.me)
X (Twitter) -> Nitter (e.g. nitter.catsarch.com)
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:

Service providers:

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
R###lt URL: https://farside.link/youtube.com/watch?v=abc123

TODO

Add supports for more search engines.
Refactor the code to make it easier to read and modify.

Wiki

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

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