voidei/shovel-search

Fast `shovel search` drop-in replacement 🚀

scoop-search

Fast scoop search drop-in replacement 🚀 Forked from scoop-search by shilangyu

Installation

scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/voidei/shovel-search/master/shovel-search.json

Hook

Instead of using shovel-search.exe <term> you can setup a hook that will run shovel-search.exe whenever you use native shovel search

Add this to your Powershell profile (usually located at $PROFILE)

Invoke-Expression (&shovel-search --hook)

Features

Returns identical results as scoop search, though it doesn't behave the same as scoop search, so if that's what you want, please check upstream.

Deviations from scoop search

Regex Searching

Uses Golang regex, so negative/positive lookahead/lookbehind supported.

❯ scoop-search /balls?/
'extras' bucket:
    monero (0.17.3.2) --> includes 'monero-blockchain-blackball'
'games' bucket:
    neverball (1.6.0)
    paintball2 (build045)
'main' bucket:
    monero-cli (0.17.3.2) --> includes 'monero-blockchain-blackball'

'nonportable' bucket:
    virtualbox52-np (5.2.44) --> includes 'VBoxBalloonCtrl.exe'
    virtualbox-np (6.1.34) --> includes 'VBoxBalloonCtrl.exe'
    virtualbox-with-extension-pack-np (6.1.34) --> includes 'VBoxBalloonCtrl.exe'
'retools' bucket:
    dynamorio (9.0.1) --> includes 'balloon.exe'

Online searching

❯ scoop-search noto
Results from other buckets...
'dodorz_scoop' bucket (https://github.com/dodorz/scoop):
    Noto-Font (2017.10.25)
    Noto-Mono-Font (2017.10.25)
    Noto-Serif-Font (2017.10.25)
    Noto-Sans-Font (2017.10.25)
'ShuguangSun_sgs-scoop-bucket' bucket (https://github.com/ShuguangSun/sgs-scoop-bucket):
    Noto-CJK-Mega-OTC (20190603)
'KnotUntied_scoop-fonts' bucket (https://github.com/KnotUntied/scoop-fonts):
    notomusic (2.000)
    notosansmath (2.001)
    notosansmono (2.006)
'nerd-fonts' bucket (install using 'scoop install nerd-fonts/<app>'):
    Noto-CJK-Mega-OTC (20190603)
    Noto-NF (2.1.0)
    Noto-NF-Mono (2.1.0)
    Source-Han-Noto-CJK-Ultra-OTC (20190603)

Benchmarks

Done with hyperfine. shovel-search is on average 50 times faster.

TODO - replace this w/ my own shovel-search results, so i'm not ripping off the original author's scoop-search results

❯ hyperfine --warmup 1 'scoop-search google' 'scoop search google'
Benchmark #1: scoop-search google
  Time (mean ± σ):      76.1 ms ±   1.9 ms    [User: 0.8 ms, System: 5.8 ms]
  Range (min … max):    73.4 ms …  82.7 ms    37 runs

Benchmark #2: scoop search google
  Time (mean ± σ):      3.910 s ±  0.015 s    [User: 1.4 ms, System: 7.9 ms]
  Range (min … max):    3.888 s …  3.928 s    10 runs

Summary
  'scoop-search google' ran
   51.37 ± 1.31 times faster than 'scoop search google'

run on AMD Ryzen 5 3600 @ 3.6GHz

Building

To enable online lookup, you'll need to link an API key:

# How you find this API key is up to you
go build -ldflags="-X 'main.shovelSearchApiKey=something'"