Getting Translators to Code II - A Powerful (yet simple) Search Script Thread poster: Juan Martín Fernández Rowda
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How much time do you spend researching when you translate? I mean, searching for information, terminology, pictures, definitions, context, etc. Did you ever think how much of your work day does this take?
Searches can be easily automated... See more How much time do you spend researching when you translate? I mean, searching for information, terminology, pictures, definitions, context, etc. Did you ever think how much of your work day does this take?
Searches can be easily automated. So, following up on a previous forum post (http://www.proz.com/forum/translation_theory_and_practice/310216-getting_translators_to_code.html), here's a second, brief and simple post where you can learn how to create you own personal search script.
The code is very basic, and the goal is getting you to understand how it works and hopefully encourage you to try it and personalize it.
Here's the link: https://juanrowdablog.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/getting-translators-to-code-ii-a-powerful-yet-simple-search-script/
I hope you find it helpful.
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I've tried it, it works, I've even made it use Google UK. Thanks!
But I cannot, for the life of me, work out how to put the search string in quotes, which is how I always search (exact match). Any ideas?
PS You've messed up the link to the blog in your post above
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Chris, first of all, thanks, I didn't realize i missed the actual link!
To fix your issue, you need to escape quotes. Quotes are used to tell the content enclosed is text - if you want to include actual quotes, try duplicating them, using "" instead of ".
Juan
Chris Schröder wrote:
I've tried it, it works, I've even made it use Google UK. Thanks!
But I cannot, for the life of me, work out how to put the search string in quotes, which is how I always search (exact match). Any ideas?
PS You've messed up the link to the blog in your post above
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Juan Martín Fernández Rowda wrote:
To fix your issue, you need to escape quotes. Quotes are used to tell the content enclosed is text - if you want to include actual quotes, try duplicating them, using "" instead of ".
What I mean is, if I highlight the phrase white cat, Google will search for pages containing the words white and cat separately. What I would like is for the hotkey to search for "white cat", i.e. insert quotes around the text on the clipboard, so that Google doesn't give me matches for pages about brown cats and white dogs, just white cats...
(White cats rule...)
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Gotcha - I get it now. So, here's a tip for that, as different sites may handle searches differently.
When you search for white cat (no quotes) in Google, this is the resulting URL: https://www.google.com/#q=white%20cat
when you sea... See more Gotcha - I get it now. So, here's a tip for that, as different sites may handle searches differently.
When you search for white cat (no quotes) in Google, this is the resulting URL: https://www.google.com/#q=white%20cat
when you search for "white cat", you get: https://www.google.com/#q="white%20cat"
Since you can't have quotes in a URL, they get encoded as %22 (the same is the case with other characters, like &). You can find a list here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
So, you can concatenate the %22s with your Clipboard - probably something like Run, % "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="" Clipboard "%22"
BTW, I used to have a white cat, so cute I made everybody believe it was a Turkish Angora
Chris Schröder wrote: Juan Martín Fernández Rowda wrote:
To fix your issue, you need to escape quotes. Quotes are used to tell the content enclosed is text - if you want to include actual quotes, try duplicating them, using "" instead of ".
What I mean is, if I highlight the phrase white cat, Google will search for pages containing the words white and cat separately. What I would like is for the hotkey to search for "white cat", i.e. insert quotes around the text on the clipboard, so that Google doesn't give me matches for pages about brown cats and white dogs, just white cats... (White cats rule...) ▲ Collapse
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Juan Martín Fernández Rowda wrote:
So, you can concatenate the %22s with your Clipboard - probably something like Run, % "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="" Clipboard "%22"
Slight modification required:
Run, % "http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=" "%22" Clipboard "%22"
This works brilliantly and is making me very happy. Thanks!
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My bad, I forgot to include the first %22, but I see you got the idea
Working on an autocomplete/spelling corrector script for post #3.
Cheers,
Juan
Chris S wrote: Juan Martín Fernández Rowda wrote:
So, you can concatenate the %22s with your Clipboard - probably something like Run, % "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="" Clipboard "%22"
Slight modification required: Run, % "http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=" "%22" Clipboard "%22" This works brilliantly and is making me very happy. Thanks!
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