Quick Google look-up of selected text

Hi guys,

This doesn't work for me either now I test it, but there is a script here in the AHK site that does work:

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;Google lookup
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
^!g::
prevClipboard := ClipboardAll
SendInput, ^c
ClipWait, 1
if !(ErrorLevel) {
Clipboard := RegExReplace(RegExReplace(Clipboard, "\r?\n"," "), "(^\s+|\s+$)")
If SubStr(ClipBoard,1,7)="http://"
Run, % Clipboard
else
Run, % "www.google.com/search Clipboard
}
Clipboard := prevClipboard
return

To make it work I have to press Ctrl+c to copy the text selected to my clipboard and then press Ctrl+Alt+g.

Hi Ivan,

Ivan: Nora's shortcut is ALT+F, not ALT+G.

Also, in my machine I needed to wait 4 seconds before pasting the text to make work. This works for me:

[…]

Run www.freetranslation.com/search

Sleep 4000

[…]

… Jesús Prieto …

Paul Filkin said:

But perhaps also note that the weblook up tool on the appstore can do this already so if you wanted to have this ability to look things up in websites and have the result in Studio then it might be better for your purposes?

multifarious.filkin.com/.../

There is also another app on the appstore that can use the results as autosuggest so this might be even more useful!

appstore.sdl.com/.../

 

This is absolutely true and I was thinking about it yesterday, although I've stopped using Web Lookup because things were just too crowded with the new 2017 features and opening Web Lookup results on a second monitor always seemed awkward. With this script I can have the search run on a second monitor without interfering with Studio. Maybe that would be a variation or option that we could suggest for the Web Lookup app: the ability to run outside of Studio. But wait... I think that's what IntelliWebSearch does already. : )

Anyway, it's nice to have as many tools as possible at our disposal!

Pengfei Niu said:

Hi Nora,

I'm very interested this script. I frequently use google to search words during translation. I never used AHK before. It seems very powerful. I just tried this script. When I press Alt+G, only the google search window pops up. The selected texts are not pasted into the search box. Would you please kindly advise what to do at your convenience? Thanks,

Regards,
Ivan

 

Hi Ivan,

Paul has posted an alternative script but just to follow up, I think I see why it's not working for you (and for Paul). When I pasted the script on this forum, part of it got converted into a link, which is not what you need. This is my actual script:

;Google lookup
!g::
OldClipboard:= Clipboard
Clipboard:= ""
Send, ^c ;copies selected text
ClipWait
Run http://www.google.com/search?q=%Clipboard%
Sleep 200
Clipboard:= OldClipboard
Return

As you can see, the part of the variable, called %Clipboard%, where the contents of the clipboard are pasted into the search field, was not showing in the original post.

Hope it works for you now!

Best,

Jesus Prieto said:

Hi Ivan,

Ivan: Nora's shortcut is ALT+F, not ALT+G.

Also, in my machine I needed to wait 4 seconds before pasting the text to make work. This works for me:

[…]

Run www.freetranslation.com/search

Sleep 4000

[…]

… Jesús Prieto …

 

Yes, Alt+F for freetranslation.com and Alt+G for Google. And I also find that increasing the wait times usually solves many of my problems in AHK. : )

Pengfei Niu said:

Hi Nora,

Just wondering if you use https://data-app.taus.net/ to search words. Is it possible to create a script for this one? Thanks.

Regards,
Ivan

 

Hi Ivan,

Try this (as usual, you may need to adjust the delays). 

Hotkey: Windows key + T (select text before pressing the hotkey)

;TAUS lookup
#t::
temp := ClipboardAll
Send, ^c ;copies selected text
Run https://data-app.taus.net/
Sleep 1000
Send {Enter}
Sleep 1000
Send {Tab 8}
Sleep 200
Send ^v
Sleep 1000
Send {Enter}
clipboard := temp
temp =
Return

Hope it works for you!