Technically, plugins are collections of URLs and procedures that DEVONagent Pro uses to access search engines on the Web. They are either written in Cocoa or in human-readable XML (plain text with special syntax). In addition to simple HTML queries, DEVONagent Pro also supports and analyzes Atom, RSS, and JSON feeds.
In the list below, you will find the associated quick search keywords in brackets. You use quick search keywords to send a query to a plugin directly from the address bar of a web browser window. You can change the quick search keyword in the Plugins & Scanners panel.
Brave Search: Searches the web using the Brave Search engine.
DuckDuckGo: Searches the web using DuckDuckGo, a search engine that claims that it doesn't track its users and delivers unbiased results (see also: filter bubble).
Ecosia: Searches the web using Ecosia, a search engine that claims to use part of its advertising revenue for planting trees.
Web: Searches the web using Bing, Brave Search , Ecosia, and Yahoo. Depending on the system language, DEVONagent Pro also uses local search engines or local variants.
Yahoo: Searches the web using Yahoo, one of the three major search engines.
Apple
App Store: Searches Apple's App Store.
Developer Connection: Searches the Apple Developer Connection database, the number one source for OS X developers.
Knowledge Base: Searches the Apple Knowledge Base, the #1 resource for finding technical information about Mac computers, Mac OS and Apple software.
Macintosh News: Scans major Macintosh news sites. Use this plugin to stay up-to-date about everything Macintosh.
MacUpdate: Searches for OS X software using Macupdate. MacUpdate watches for the latest Macintosh software updates and visits over more than 800 websites a day, looking for version changes to software titles not submitted by developers.
Browsers
All Cached Pages: Scans all pages cached by earlier search runs. Use this to include already scanned pages again in a new search.
Bookmarks: Scans all websites bookmarked in DEVONagent, Safari, OmniWeb, Camino, Chrome, or Firefoxfor the search query. You can use this plugin to create your private mini-web with bookmarks and search only this collection.
DEVONthink databases: Searches all web sites bookmarkes in the currently opened DEVONthink databases.
DEVONthink server: Searches shared DEVONthink Pro Office databases through the local web server. DEVONthink Pro Office has to be running and web sharing started by the same user.
History: Scans the pages you have visited recently with Safari or DEVONagent Pro for the search query. This is useful for searching for something you remember you have seen recently, but you cannot remember where.
Apple Cocoa-Dev: Searches Apple's cocoa-dev mailing list. This is very useful if you do OS X software development.
Citeseer: Searches the CiteSeer library. Citeseer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
Cocoabuilder: Searches Apple & Omnigroup Cocoa mailing lists using Cocoabuilder. Very useful if you do OS X software development.
Infoplease: Searches Infoplease, a reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs with statistics, facts and historical records.
Onelook: Searches for word definitions or translations using Onelook. Onelook is a search engine that provides access to web-based dictionaries that define or translate words.
Wiktionary: Looks for word definitions in the online dictionary Wiktionary. Wiktionary is a free multilingual dictionary and thesaurus that's being written collaboratively. Anybody can edit any article and a record of changes is kept. This plugin is localized and searches in the selected language.
Government
USA.gov: Searches for U.S. government information using FirstGov.gov. FirstGov.gov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information, with millions of webpages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.
Images & Videos
Images: Finds images using Yahoo's image search. Whatever image you are looking for, if it's on the Internet, you should be able to find it.
Picsearch: Searches for pictures using Picsearch. Picsearch is a search engine specialized in creating a searchable index of images.
Legal
EUR-Lex: Searches EUR-Lex for law documents and other public documents of the European Union. The contents of the site amount to more than 2.8 million documents with texts dating back to 1951. The database is updated daily and every year around 12,000 documents are added.
FindLaw: Searches for legal materials using FindLaw. FindLaw is the highest-trafficked legal website, providing a comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, businesses, students and individuals.
Lexis® Web: Searches for legal materials using Lexis. LexisNexis provides customers with access to billions of searchable documents and records from more than 45,000 legal, news, and business sources.
Medical
FDA: Searches for material on the website of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The index is updated every night as many FDA documents are time sensitive.
MedlinePlus: Searches for health-related materials using MedlinePlus. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicie (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
MyHealthfinder: Searches for health-related materials using Healthfinder. Healthfinder is a gateway to selected consumer health and human services information resources provided by government agencies and other organizations.
PubMed: Searches the PubMed bibliographic database. PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE, as well as out-of-scope citations, citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing, and some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by the NLM.
WebMD: Searches for health-related materials using WebMD. WebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health and support to those who seek information.
Reuters: Searches for news on the Reuters news database. Reuters is a global information company providing information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media, and corporate markets.
World News Network: Searches for news on the World News Network. World News Network ranks as one of the top sites for world news on the Internet. It includes more than 3,000 sites and covers 24 languages, categorized by geography and subject.
Yahoo News: Searches for news on Yahoo News. Yahoo uses its own search engine to scan important news websites and automatically compile a news portal using the found data.
Gutenberg.de: Searches for literature in the German-language Project Gutenberg database of free ebooks.
Gutenberg.org: Searches for literature in the English-language Project Gutenberg database of free ebooks.
Highbeam: Searches for articles on Highbeam Research. HighBeam regards itself as the premier online research tool for business and academic use, with more than 80 million articles culled from the archives of over 6,500 newspapers, magazines, journals, and other publications.
Internet Public Library: Searches for literature in the The Internet Public Library. The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning and teaching online environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.
JSTOR: Searches for articles on JSTOR. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR claims to be one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.
Philosophy: Searches for literature in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field.
Poetry: Searches for English poetry using the Electronic Poetry Center, founded by Loss Pequeno Glazier and Charles Bernstein.
Wikipedia: Searches for articles in the free online encylopedia Wikipedia. The content of Wikipedia is free and is written collaboratively by people from all around the world. Begun in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into the largest reference website on the Internet. This plugin is localized and searches in the selected language.
Science
American Chemical Society: Searches for materials on the American Chemical Society (ACS) website. The American Chemical Society is a self-governed individual membership organization that consists of more than 158,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry.
IngentaConnect: Searches online journals using IngentaConnect. IngentaConnect publishes scholarly and professional journals in all subject areas. It supports and produces more than 3,000 online journals.
Shopping
Amazon: Searches for articles on Amazon. Chooses Amazon in the USA, Germany, or France depending on the system language.
Social Networking
Facebook profiles: Searches for profiles on Facebook.
Social Networking