diff --git a/web-search.plugin.zsh b/web-search.plugin.zsh
index a8848fd..dbf510f 100644
--- a/web-search.plugin.zsh
+++ b/web-search.plugin.zsh
@@ -1,5 +1,121 @@
 # web_search from terminal
 
+# omz_urlencode and open_command borrowed from oh-my-zsh
+# https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/lib/functions.zsh
+
+# URL-encode a string
+#
+# Encodes a string using RFC 2396 URL-encoding (%-escaped).
+# See: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
+#
+# By default, reserved characters and unreserved "mark" characters are
+# not escaped by this function. This allows the common usage of passing
+# an entire URL in, and encoding just special characters in it, with
+# the expectation that reserved and mark characters are used appropriately.
+# The -r and -m options turn on escaping of the reserved and mark characters,
+# respectively, which allows arbitrary strings to be fully escaped for
+# embedding inside URLs, where reserved characters might be misinterpreted.
+#
+# Prints the encoded string on stdout.
+# Returns nonzero if encoding failed.
+#
+# Usage:
+#  omz_urlencode [-r] [-m] [-P] <string> [<string> ...]
+#
+#    -r causes reserved characters (;/?:@&=+$,) to be escaped
+#
+#    -m causes "mark" characters (_.!~*''()-) to be escaped
+#
+#    -P causes spaces to be encoded as '%20' instead of '+'
+function omz_urlencode() {
+  emulate -L zsh
+  local -a opts
+  zparseopts -D -E -a opts r m P
+
+  local in_str="$@"
+  local url_str=""
+  local spaces_as_plus
+  if [[ -z $opts[(r)-P] ]]; then spaces_as_plus=1; fi
+  local str="$in_str"
+
+  # URLs must use UTF-8 encoding; convert str to UTF-8 if required
+  local encoding=$langinfo[CODESET]
+  local safe_encodings
+  safe_encodings=(UTF-8 utf8 US-ASCII)
+  if [[ -z ${safe_encodings[(r)$encoding]} ]]; then
+    str=$(echo -E "$str" | iconv -f $encoding -t UTF-8)
+    if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
+      echo "Error converting string from $encoding to UTF-8" >&2
+      return 1
+    fi
+  fi
+
+  # Use LC_CTYPE=C to process text byte-by-byte
+  # Note that this doesn't work in Termux, as it only has UTF-8 locale.
+  # Characters will be processed as UTF-8, which is fine for URLs.
+  local i byte ord LC_ALL=C
+  export LC_ALL
+  local reserved=';/?:@&=+$,'
+  local mark='_.!~*''()-'
+  local dont_escape="[A-Za-z0-9"
+  if [[ -z $opts[(r)-r] ]]; then
+    dont_escape+=$reserved
+  fi
+  # $mark must be last because of the "-"
+  if [[ -z $opts[(r)-m] ]]; then
+    dont_escape+=$mark
+  fi
+  dont_escape+="]"
+
+  # Implemented to use a single printf call and avoid subshells in the loop,
+  # for performance (primarily on Windows).
+  local url_str=""
+  for (( i = 1; i <= ${#str}; ++i )); do
+    byte="$str[i]"
+    if [[ "$byte" =~ "$dont_escape" ]]; then
+      url_str+="$byte"
+    else
+      if [[ "$byte" == " " && -n $spaces_as_plus ]]; then
+        url_str+="+"
+      elif [[ "$PREFIX" = *com.termux* ]]; then
+        # Termux does not have non-UTF8 locales, so just send the UTF-8 character directly
+        url_str+="$byte"
+      else
+        ord=$(( [##16] #byte ))
+        url_str+="%$ord"
+      fi
+    fi
+  done
+  echo -E "$url_str"
+}
+
+function open_command() {
+  local open_cmd
+
+  # define the open command
+  case "$OSTYPE" in
+    darwin*)  open_cmd='open' ;;
+    cygwin*)  open_cmd='cygstart' ;;
+    linux*)   [[ "$(uname -r)" != *icrosoft* ]] && open_cmd='nohup xdg-open' || {
+                open_cmd='cmd.exe /c start ""'
+                [[ -e "$1" ]] && { 1="$(wslpath -w "${1:a}")" || return 1 }
+              } ;;
+    msys*)    open_cmd='start ""' ;;
+    *)        echo "Platform $OSTYPE not supported"
+              return 1
+              ;;
+  esac
+
+  # If a URL is passed, $BROWSER might be set to a local browser within SSH.
+  # See https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/issues/11098
+  if [[ -n "$BROWSER" && "$1" = (http|https)://* ]]; then
+    "$BROWSER" "$@"
+    return
+  fi
+
+  ${=open_cmd} "$@" &>/dev/null
+}
+
 function web_search() {
   emulate -L zsh