Design some kind of plugin system for bunnylol

[alichtman]

I don't know if it's sustainable or desirable to keep adding commands to the central repo.

I think providing a plugin-like system would be really cool, so you could enable commands provided by other github repos in your config. Or a simple string replacement redirect service, like:

{
   "alias": "https://customwebsite.com/?search=%s",
   ...
}

I haven't come up with a great design yet

[jrodal98]

Perhaps some inspiration for this ticket:

I've been running a bunnylol clone for 5 years and manage commands like this: https://github.com/jrodal98/brunnylol/blob/master/commands.yml

E.g. stuff like

- alias: yt
  url: https://www.youtube.com
  command: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query={}
  description: Search youtube

• yt: takes you to the url
• yt <input>: inserts input into command and takes you to that url

- alias: gh
  url: https://github.com/jrodal98
  command: https://github.com/{}
  description: Go to jrodal98's github page or go to another repo (e.g. jrodal98/brunnylol)
  encode: false

• Same as yt example but it doesn't do url encoding

- alias: aoc
  url: https://adventofcode.com
  description: Advent of code
  nested:
    - alias: r
      url: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/
      description: reddit
    - alias: j
      url: https://github.com/jrodal98/advent-of-code
      command: https://github.com/jrodal98/advent-of-code/blob/master/py2024/day{}/solution.py
      description: jrodal98 AOC solutions

• aoc: takes you to adventofcode.com
• aoc r: takes you to the subreddit
• aoc j: takes you to my advent of code github repo
• aoc j 25: takes you to the day 25 solution for 2024

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At server initialization time, the yaml file is parsed into a map of aliases -> "commands": https://github.com/jrodal98/brunnylol/blob/master/src/main.rs#L85

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I don't think this is a perfect solution but it does make it so that can generate any bookmark I need with just plaintext, which would be best for a plugin system. I don't think I've touched the source code in 4 years. But I am discouraged from actually changing anything because it requires me to restart my server and I can't be bothered to do that.

Personally, if I had the energy to redo all of this:

1. I'd update this syntax to support using the string_pipeline crate to help format the URLs: https://docs.rs/string_pipeline/latest/string_pipeline/
2. I'd want a web UI where I could create new bookmarks and they'd be persisted in a database somewhere so that I never have to update my file, my docker image, or restart my server. (not relevant to this issue but perhaps could be another feature request)
3. If I wanted to add plugins, I'd hope I could also just point to a json or yaml or toml file from a webUI and have it take effect without needing to restart my server.