Qutebrowser Configuration

1. Configuration

1. Configuration

1.1. Imports

We start with imports:

from pathlib import Path
from urllib.parse import urlparse
# import catppuccin

We import pathlib to get our home directory.

1.2. Theming

I am experimenting with many themes right now, and one of them is the city-lights theme. Another one I have used is the catppuccin theme.

# config.source('themes/qute-city-lights/city-lights-theme.py')
config.source('gruvbox.py')

1.3. Variables

We need the location of the home directory.

home = str(Path.home())

1.4. Fonts

We are using Fira Code for the font in all the non-webpage ui elements.

c.fonts.hints = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.keyhint = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.prompts = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.downloads = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.statusbar = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.contextmenu = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.messages.info = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.debug_console = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.completion.entry = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.completion.category = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.tabs.selected = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'
c.fonts.tabs.unselected = '14pt FiraCode Nerd Font'

1.5. Search Engine

We should set our default search engine to google because duckduckgo is useless, and we should give other search engine bang options.

c.url.searchengines = {
    'DEFAULT':  'https://google.com/search?hl=en&q={}',
    '!a':       'https://www.amazon.com/s?k={}',
    '!d':       'https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&q={}',
    '!dd':      'https://thefreedictionary.com/{}',
    '!e':       'https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw={}',
    '!fb':      'https://www.facebook.com/s.php?q={}',
    '!gh':      'https://github.com/search?o=desc&q={}&s=stars',
    '!gist':    'https://gist.github.com/search?q={}',
    '!gi':      'https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q={}&tbs=imgo:1',
    '!gn':      'https://news.google.com/search?q={}',
    '!ig':      'https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/{}',
    '!m':       'https://www.google.com/maps/search/{}',
    '!p':       'https://pry.sh/{}',
    '!r':       'https://www.reddit.com/search?q={}',
    '!sd':      'https://slickdeals.net/newsearch.php?q={}&searcharea=deals&searchin=first',
    '!t':       'https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/{}',
    '!tw':      'https://twitter.com/search?q={}',
    '!w':       'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{}',
    '!yelp':    'https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc={}',
    '!yt':      'https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query={}'
}

1.6. Start Page

Set the default start page to my own website.

c.url.start_pages = ["file:///home/preston/website_html/index.html"]
c.url.default_page = "file:///home/preston/website_html/index.html"

1.7. Keybindings

Now we define our keybindings for useful programs while browsing:

config.bind('xm', 'hint links spawn mpv {hint-url}')
config.bind('xy', 'hint links spawn yt-dlp {hint-url} -o "~/videos/youtube/%(title)s.%(ext)s"')
config.bind('xr', 'hint links spawn bash -c "echo \'*** {hint-url}\' >> ~/org/elfeed.org"')
config.bind('xj', 'spawn bash -c "echo {url} >> ~/.config/qutebrowser/js_blacklist.txt"')

1.8. Paywall Bypassing

Sometimes websites like the New York Times try to make money. I won't let that happen.

with open(f"{home}/.config/qutebrowser/js_blacklist.txt") as f:
    js_blacklist = f.read().splitlines()

for item in js_blacklist:
    domain = urlparse(item).netloc
    config.set('content.javascript.enabled', False, f"*://{domain}/*")
    config.set('content.javascript.enabled', False, f"*://www.{domain}/*")

1.9. Misc.

Doing mundane things like setting the downloads directory to not use an upper case letter.

c.downloads.location.directory = "~/Downloads"

1.10. End of Config

config.load_autoconfig()
# catppuccin.setup(c, 'mocha', False)