{"id":1275,"date":"2011-04-11T14:09:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2015-09-06T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T15:07:23","slug":"how-to-use-butler-for-real-time-google-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"How-to: Use Butler for real-time Google searches"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who aren’t aware, Google has a real time search engine<\/a> that can find up-to-the-second results across sites and social media services for topics of interest. Here’s how to set up Butler<\/a> to search via this real time search engine.<\/p>\n

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  1. Open Butler’s main window (via Butler > Customize in the Butler menu, for instance), and go to the Engines tab.<\/li>\n
  2. Click the plus sign at the lower left corner of the Butler window, and select Search Engine (or just press Command-N.)<\/li>\n
  3. Name your search engine (in the box near the top right of the Butler window). (Press Tab when done.)<\/li>\n
  4. On the URL tab, enter this for Prefix: http:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?btnG=Search#q=<\/tt>. Enter this for Suffix: &tbs=mbl:1&fp=1&cad=b<\/tt>.<\/li>\n
  5. If you’d like to use real time search via Butler’s input box, click on the Triggers tab and enter an abbreviation. (Press Tab when done.)<\/li>\n
  6. Click the Configuration tab, then click the plus sign at the lower left again. Scroll down and choose Smart Item > Web Search.<\/li>\n
  7. Drag the newly-added Web Search entry to your desired section of Butler’s interface—I do all my web searching via keyboard shortcuts, so I have it in the Hidden section.<\/li>\n
  8. Title your newly-added search, using the box near the top right of the Butler window. (Press Tab when done.)<\/li>\n
  9. Click the pop-up in the Search Engine tab, and select the newly-created Google realtime search entry from the list.<\/li>\n
  10. If you’d like to search via the keyboard, click over to the Triggers tab and set a Hot Key.<\/li>\n
  11. Optionally set any other options.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’ve been using this for a few weeks now, and it works quite nicely (at least using the USA version of Google; I’m not sure about international real time searching).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For those who aren’t aware, Google has a real time search engine that can find up-to-the-second results across sites and social media services for topics of interest. Here’s how to set up Butler to search via this real time search engine. Open Butler’s main window (via Butler > Customize in the Butler menu, for instance), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-how-to"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}