MED Open Search Documentation
MED Open Search is a standalone Mac app for easier, faster searching of the Middle English Dictionary. It lets you search repeatedly and rapidly without going to the MED's search page, and if you add the related userscript, you can also go straight to the page showing the quotations without having to stop and press a button to see them.
Double-click the zip file and it will expand to show you two files. One is the app, which you can put in your app folder like any other app. It also includes MED Open Click.user.js, which is a userscript you can run with a userscript manager like Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey to provide more functionality. Check the instructions for the userscript manager you use to find out how to set up MED Open Click.user.js.
Launch the app. A dialog box will appear, asking you to select a directory to write your results page into.
Then, you'll get another dialog box, where you can type the word you want to look up.
Type the word you are searching, choose a search type if necessary, and hit the enter/return key. In a moment, a web page will load.
Then click through to the MED page of your choice.
If you leave the app open, you can search over and over and it won't ask you to choose a directory until you quit and relaunch the app next time.
If you want the MED pages to open with all of the quotations actually showing, use MED Open Click.user.js with a userscript manager for your browser. (I use Userscripts with Safari.) The script is included in the zip file for this app.
The script can be run from your command line if you're not on a Mac. You will need Python and additional libraries including PySimpleGUI, requests, and BeautifulSoup. The GUI elements should work on non-Macs when you run from the command-line, as far as I know.