Quickly access GitHub repos by leveraging Chrome's search engine settings

README.md

tl;dr You can use Chrome's custom search as a text-expander to quickly access GitHub repos.

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Chrome's custom search engine settings take a name, keyword, and a URL (which contains a %s). When you type the keyword in the browser and press tab, the search bar will say Search {name} and will allow you to keep typing. When you press enter, whatever you typed will be injected into the URL you set by replacing %s with your input. This is really powerful because you can essentially setup a hotkey to get the prefix for your GitHub namespace or maybe your company's org.

Example:

• name: GitHub @anglinb
• keyword: a
• URL: https://github.com/anglinb/%s

Setup:

1. Visit chrome://settings/searchEngines
2. Click Add and enter the keyword & GitHub URL (ex: keyword:gh, URL:https://github.com/github/%s)
3. Profit!

@missinformed orignally showed this to me--thank you so much! 🎉 🎉 🎉

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