From 791671a31cc1f42b3f80e0ebb07db1c28bd1a01a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew <andreasohaodha@proton.me>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:07:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [qutebrowser_dmenu.pl]: Add qutebrowser_dmenu.pl

---
 README.md                |  1 +
 src/qutebrowser_dmenu.pl | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 src/qutebrowser_dmenu.pl

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 11ebc0f..7d047f7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  - `music_dmenu.sh`: script to play a specific artist, album, or track selected with dmenu.
  - `play_music.sh`: simple script to play music albums based off the supplied artist & album name.
  - `qutebrowser_search.sh`: script that finds all the search engines defined in the qutebrowser `config.py` configuration file and makes them available for searching via dmenu, i.e. allow web searching with qutebrowser without having to wait for it to start up before you start your search.
+ - `qutebrowser_dmenu.pl`: script that constructs a `dmenu` menu of all search engines defined in the `qutebrowser` configuration file for searching without first launching `qutebrowser`.
  - `repos_checker.sh`: script to find all of the Git repositories in the current directory & its sub-directories and display each found repository's `git status`.
  - `screenshot.sh`: screenshot script for both Xorg and Wayland with selection that both saves the image file and adds the image to the clipboard, and notifies the user via `notify-send`.
  - `stdin_to_notis.sh`: scripts that reads from `stdin` and sends each line as a system notification. Intended for use when a program that outputs to `stdout` is called from a non-terminal or graphical program, making the `stdout` output inaccessible. The output can instead be piped into this script to make it readable as a system notification.
diff --git a/src/qutebrowser_dmenu.pl b/src/qutebrowser_dmenu.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1e8d8ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/qutebrowser_dmenu.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -l
+# Script that constructs a `dmenu` menu of all search engines defined in the qutebrowser configuration file for searching without first launching qutebrowser
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+my $file_path = "$ENV{HOME}/.config/qutebrowser/config.py";
+my @search_engines;
+
+open(my $file_handler, '<', $file_path) or die("Couldn't open $file_path $!");
+my $inside = 0;
+
+while (my $line = <$file_handler>) {
+
+    if ($line =~ /^c\.url\.searchengines\s*=\s*{/) {
+        $inside = 1;
+        next;
+    }
+
+    if ($inside) {
+        last if ($line =~ /^\s*}/);
+
+        $line =~ s/["':]//g;
+        $line =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
+
+        my ($search_engine) = split(/\s+/, $line);
+
+        if ($search_engine && $search_engine !~ /^\s*#/) {
+            push(@search_engines, $search_engine);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+close($file_handler);
+
+my $dmenu_input = join("\n", @search_engines);
+my $selection = `echo "$dmenu_input" | dmenu`;
+
+if ($selection) {
+    exec("qutebrowser", $selection);
+}