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|    Indira to Oliver    |
|    Re: Is there a Windows batch way to make    |
|    14 Mar 24 05:00:31    |
      XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox       From: indira@ghandi.net              Oliver wrote:              > The goal is efficiency and portability and the ability to run scripts.       > a. Run the script when a book needs to be searched for       > b. Up pops a query of which browser & then it opens the 25 (or so) tabs       > c. Then you paste into each tab the same search (for example, an ISBN)              Your script can be improved if you maintain a list of keyword URLs of the       actual search so all 25 of those searches do run concurrently.              I don't know the format for each site you're interested in but usually the       search has a "?word1+word2+word3" type syntax which you'd figure out for       each URL what it is.              Then the script would only ask "what do you want to search for", and it       would then create the URLs for each search & run them all at the same time.              For duckduckgo for example, it would construct a url like this.       https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=game+of+thrones+pdf+free+download&ia=web              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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