Adding Custom Search Engines to Colibri

What is Colibri? It’s the closes thing to Quicksilver you can get for the PC, and it makes life easy when you hate using the mouse. (If you read my quicksilver post you’d realize that id do everything via keyboard if I could…)

My few gripes with Colibri is the fact that it had no way to hardcode in specific search engines. Well, a few trips to their forums gave me the hint to grab SQLite Database Browser and start messing around with their database files. Simple enough..

The general breakdown is like this (using Digg as my main example because I’m horribly addicted, this should be obvious…):

Adding Custom Search Engines:

1) get SQLite Database Browser from sourceforge
2) open Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Colibri\Search Engines.sqlite
3) hit the Execute SQL tab
4) paste these guys in there


INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES ('Delicious', 'Delicious', 'Delicious News', 'Generic', 'http://del.icio.us', 'http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=%s&type=all');


INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES ('Digg', 'Digg', 'Digg News', 'Generic', 'http://digg.com',
'http://digg.com/search?s=%s');


5) hit Execute Query
6) hopefully the forum didn’t miss something and you have them inserted.
6a) if it did mess up, try INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES('TMP', '', '', '', '',''); then manually edit in the values
7) restart colibri

Notes:

If you searched (for example) Digg.com before to open a URL you need to do one more step

before colibri registers it as a search engine and not an item_history URL.

1) open Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Colibri\Database.sqlite
2) browse all references to (ex) Digg.com in your item_history table
3) delete all rows containing (ex) Digg.com
4) restart colibri

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