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Search Gmail from LaunchBar, Butler, others
A MacOSXHints
reader submitted a
simple trick to allow app launcher utilities like LaunchBar, Butler and others to search Gmail. All you have to do
is add a new search template to your launcher of choice with a specific URL and you're off to submitting Gmail search
queries from [insert launcher name here]. The query URL to use is:http://mail.google.com/mail/?search=query&view=tl&start=0&init=1&fs=1&q=*Enjoy.http://mail.google.com/mail/?search=query&view=tl&start=0&init=1&fs=1&q=***
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mitch Aunger said 8:37PM on 3-09-2006
The link in the article is all hosed... the real link should be:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060306141308548
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Gary King said 9:12PM on 3-09-2006
Actually, what you can do is add http://mail.google.com/mail/?search=query&view=tl&start=0&init=1&fs=1&q=%s as a Firefox bookmark (and create a keyword for it), then you can search it using an app launcher such as Quicksilver, Butler, LaunchBar, etc.
In Quicksilver for instance, you just need to type in the keyword into it, and then tab to the next field to type in your search term.
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Lantrix said 9:16AM on 3-10-2006
I added a comment to the hint on how I setup a Quicksilver specific Trigger using this hint. Over here for whom ever wants to know: http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20060306141308548&pid=71823
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17km said 2:53AM on 3-12-2006
no
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