Modify (Redirect) URL links in search engines results to alternative frontends or for other purposes
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This Tampermonkey script enhances your search engine usage by modifying URLs in the search result of search engines, redirecting to alternative sites. Allows a more customized and efficient browsing experience.
URL modification uses Regular Expression.
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.
4get won't change displayed URLs correspondingly when links are changed. This issue exists because I aim to make my code as generalized as possible, but these search engines have unusual DOM structure for displaying URLs, which makes it tedious to support these engines considering their relatively small user base.
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:
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
Result URL: https://farside.link/youtube.com/watch?v=abc123
https://github.com/domeniczz/URL-Modifier-for-Search-Engines/wiki