Show HN: Search Navigator – Vim-style keyboard nav for Google and YouTube(chromewebstore.google.com)
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Show HN: Search Navigator – Vim-style keyboard nav for Google and YouTube
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/search-navigator-â-keyboa/fpinaaaiplppifhmkjdfkimodkkdnoha
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Search Navigator lets you:
- move through results with j/k or arrows, open with Enter (Cmd/Ctrl = new tab)
- switch tabs from the keyboard: a All, i Images, v Videos, n News, s Shopping
- jump to Google Maps (m) or YouTube (y) with your current query
- do the same on YouTube search
Design choices:
- Zero config — useful the moment it's installed.
- Search-result focused on purpose: it doesn't remap your whole browser like Vimium, so there's basically nothing to learn.
- No data collection, no tracking, no external requests. MIT, source on GitHub.
Most of the work is the unglamorous part: keeping the result-scraping alive as Google/YouTube reshuffle their DOM (infinite scroll, "People also ask", YouTube SPA nav, image preview panels). It's tested with unit + Playwright E2E against saved page snapshots.
Source: https://github.com/nwatab/search-navigator
Happy to talk about scraping Google's ever-changing DOM — that's why the unmaintained alternatives break.