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routr is a lightweight, offline search router inspired by DuckDuckGo's bangs. It's fully browser-based (no server requests needed other than the initial one) an

routr is a lightweight, offline search router inspired by DuckDuckGo's bangs. It's fully browser-based (no server requests needed other than the initial one) and routes queries like `!gh tokio` to GitHub, `!yt` to YouTube, `!hn` to Hacker News, etc. What sets it apart: - Runs entirely locally (no network, no tracking) - Lets you define your own bangs and destinations - Optionally rewrites queries for better precision (with AI) Example: Typing `article about german war in the stone age !!g` becomes: `site:en.wikipedia.org "german" AND "war" AND "stone age"` More on query rewriting and performance: https://tl128n.github.io/writings/2025-05-02_optimizing_search_performance/ https://tl128n.github.io/writings/2025-05-02_optimizing_sear...

Leftium 1y ago
That link is broken. Correct link: https://t128n.github.io/writings/2025-05-02_optimizing_search_performance/ https://t128n.github.io/writings/2025-05-02_optimizing_searc...
- trbndev 1y ago
  Ah damn what a bummer that I can‘t edit the original comment anymore. Thank you for pointing it out… didn‘t even see that extra `l` there in the url
Leftium 1y ago
> Typing `article about german war in the stone age !!g` becomes: `site:en.wikipedia.org "german" AND "war" AND "stone age"` I wonder how much of that could be done without AI, just (locally) using https://www.npmjs.com/package/compromise https://www.npmjs.com/package/compromise --- Also I couldn't find your source for bang data; Kagi maintains an updated list: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs I'm working on an enhanced version of bangs. Since there are so many "dead" bangs, I'm thinking of using a bang whitelist and suggestions from the full list if not found in the whitelist.
- trbndev 1y ago
  What an interesting library. Thanks for mentioning it here… will definitely look into it! —- The bangs are at https://github.com/t128n/routr/blob/main/src/sw/routes.ts https://github.com/t128n/routr/blob/main/src/sw/routes.ts Mostly ripped from duckduckgo.com/bang.js and then pretty-formatted with Prettier… with some sane-defaults added like a bang for ChatGPT or T3 Chat

Leftium 1y ago

That link is broken. Correct link: https://t128n.github.io/writings/2025-05-02_optimizing_search_performance/ https://t128n.github.io/writings/2025-05-02_optimizing_searc...

trbndev 1y ago
Ah damn what a bummer that I can‘t edit the original comment anymore. Thank you for pointing it out… didn‘t even see that extra `l` there in the url

Leftium 1y ago

> Typing `article about german war in the stone age !!g` becomes: `site:en.wikipedia.org "german" AND "war" AND "stone age"` I wonder how much of that could be done without AI, just (locally) using https://www.npmjs.com/package/compromise https://www.npmjs.com/package/compromise --- Also I couldn't find your source for bang data; Kagi maintains an updated list: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs I'm working on an enhanced version of bangs. Since there are so many "dead" bangs, I'm thinking of using a bang whitelist and suggestions from the full list if not found in the whitelist.

trbndev 1y ago
What an interesting library. Thanks for mentioning it here… will definitely look into it! —- The bangs are at https://github.com/t128n/routr/blob/main/src/sw/routes.ts https://github.com/t128n/routr/blob/main/src/sw/routes.ts Mostly ripped from duckduckgo.com/bang.js and then pretty-formatted with Prettier… with some sane-defaults added like a bang for ChatGPT or T3 Chat