Using Launchy to search Gmail

Question

I use the Weby extension for Launchy to do custom searches. I should be able to search Gmail like this

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using this search definition

Mail   http://mail.google.com/a/caudillweb.com/#search/%1

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but the forward slash following #search gets rewritten to a backslash, so the URL that is sent to the browser is

 http://mail.google.com/a/caudillweb.com/#search\foo@caudillweb.com

Gmail doesn't like the backslash, so it considers the URL invalid and redirects to #inbox.

Any ideas how I can stop Launchy (or Weby) from reversing that forward slash?

Agent_9191 · Answer 1 · 2010-08-17 02:27:27Z

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Perhaps I'm on a different version of Launchy/Weby, but when I configured mine I used the following settings and they worked great:

Name: mail
URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/
Query: #search/%s

Maybe the use of %1 threw it off?

answered Aug 17 '10 at 2:27

Agent_9191
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	I think maybe you're using an older version? Mine is 2.5, and as you can see in the screenshot that I just added, there's only a `Name` column and a `URL` column. – Herb Caudill Aug 26 '10 at 1:36
	Ah, correct. I'm still on 2.1.2. – Agent_9191 Aug 26 '10 at 16:15

Eight Days of Malaise · Answer 2 · 2012-09-23 05:16:48Z

I solved a similar problem using Launchy 2.5.0 by replacing the # with %23.

For instance, when searching contacts, this URL string for searching Google contacts passed through Launchy without exhibiting the bug:

http://mail.google.com/mail/%23contacts/search/%1

Perhaps this can help with your example above.

That said, I just use this search term instead for Gmail:

http://mail.google.com/mail/?search=query&view=tl&q=%1

This does not exhibit the bug nor have the %23 hack.

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