Get first url on google search for highlighted text in any application
I just created a simple way to do it. It's not the best but it works well enough for me right now. I didn't customize it to match stackoverflow's formatting as I wanted it flexible for now. Will put it up on github later. Probably needs to be better to make it really work.
Save the following as Googlesearch.ahk and run it using autohotkey
; Search google for the highlighted word
; then get the first link address and put it on the Clipboard
^!r:: Reload
#+g::
bak = %clipboard%
Send, ^c
;clipboard = %bak%`r`n%clipboard%
Query = %clipboard%
wb := ComObjCreate("InternetExplorer.Application")
;wb := IEGet()
wb.Visible := false
wb.Navigate("www.google.com/search?q=" Query)
While wb.readyState != 4 || wb.document.readyState != "complete" || wb.busy ; wait for the page to load
sleep 100
; loop % (Nodes := wb.document.getElementById("rso").childNodes).length
; Links_urls .= (A_index = 1) ? Nodes[A_index-1].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href : "`n" . Nodes[A_index-1].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href
; Msgbox %Links_urls%
Nodes := wb.document.getElementById("rso").childNodes
First_link := Nodes[0].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href
Clipboard = %First_link%
TrayTip, First Link on Google Search, %First_link% `r`n Ctrl+V to paste the link
return