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Search a Query on a Search Portal in a Web Browser

Source: R/search-functions.R
search_site.Rd

Creates an appropriate query string for a search engine and then opens up the resulting page in a web browser.

Usage

search_site(
  query,
  site = c("google", "bing", "duckduckgo", "ddg", "startpage", "sp", "qwant", "rseek",
    "brave", "kagi", "posit community", "posit", "twitter", "x", "bluesky", "mastodon",
    "stackoverflow", "so", "github", "gh", "grep", "bitbucket", "bb", "chatgpt",
    "claude", "perplexity", "mistral", "bing copilot", "copilot", "grok", "meta ai",
    "meta"),
  rlang = TRUE,
  prompt = NULL
)

Arguments

query

Contents of string to search. Default is the error message.

site

Name of site to search on. Supported options: "google" (default), "bing", "duckduckgo" or "ddg", "startpage" (formerly "ixquick") or "sp", "qwant", "rseek", "brave", "kagi", "posit community" (formerly "rstudio community") or "posit", "twitter" or "x", "bluesky", "mastodon", "stackoverflow", "github", "grep", "bitbucket", "chatgpt", "claude", "perplexity", "mistral" or "le chat", "bing copilot" or "copilot", and "grok" or "xai", "meta ai" or "meta".

rlang

Search for results written in R. Default is TRUE

prompt

Optional prompt prefix to add before your query to guide how the AI responds. If NULL, uses the service-specific default prompt option.

Value

The generated search URL or an empty string.

Examples

# Search in a generic way
search_site("r-project", "google")
#> Please type into your browser:
#> https://google.com/search?q=r-project%20r%20programming