PayPal Spotlight

PayPal, being a large company, hosts an enormous number of tools for a variety of purposes. Most of the time, we use these tools when we want to search for information - but we need to go through a time-consuming pre-step to find the right tool for it, and then find the right place within it to perform the search.

We aim to remove this pre-step.

How to use

Just hit Alt+Enter to fire it up and search for what you want. PayPal Spotlight does the hard work for you to search the appropriate tool for the job.

Supported tools

Supported search engines:

• Confluence Search (default)
• Cal ID Search (auto-detect Debug ID)
• Cal Kibana Search (cal)
• FPTI Kibana Search (fpti)
• Rally Search (auto-detect Story ID or rally)
• JIRA Search (auto-detect Ticket ID or jira)
• PayPal Github search (git)
• External Github Search (egit)
• PPAAS API Search (ppaas)
• Altus Search (altus)
• Flow ID Search (flow)
• Bridge Search (bridge)
• AnswerHub search (ah)
• View Sherlock pool (sher)

Slack integration

• Slack direct message (@username)
• Slack channel (#channel-name)

Go support

• Go to link (go)

What's next?

Search engines to be supported soon:

• Acronym Search (auto-detect)
• PXP Search (pxp)
• RLog ID (auto-detect RLog ID)
• Tech hub Search (tech)
• LMS search (lms)
• PPAAS Search (ppa)
• Paypal Technology Education Video Search (vid)

Custom commands with API integration, e.g.

• create-user - Create pre-configured test user
• get-user - Get user info by email address
• service-status - Return service status
• Option to add custom search engines

Direct integration with APIs for richer result experience

References

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