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navi_se

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Registered: 2015-07-06

Posts: 135

[SOLVED] Search query from url into the forum (using qutebrowser)

I am trying to search this forum directly by the url (this is to allow the functionality in my browser, qutebroswer, with a shortcut).

For other websites I perform a search and then get the required url with a space where the query is placed, e.g., for Duck Duck Go

https://duckduckgo.com/?q={}

where {} is the space which will contain the search query.

If I search on this forum though, I get a string like

https://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?se … 1231232444

trying to replace the search id with another number, or a query, leads to invalid links.

Other websites, like wikipedia, have a syntax like

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search={}

but trying to replace search_id with search or other similar terms yield no results.

Is there a way to do this? Is there a sensible meaning to the search ID (e.g. so that I can peraphs script something to get me the required search_id number to pass in the url?)

Last edited by navi_se (2016-01-03 14:23:33)

lahwaacz

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2012-05-29

Posts: 762

Re: [SOLVED] Search query from url into the forum (using qutebrowser)

You need to use https://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?ke … ion=search
(shamelessly taken from the arch-firefox-search package)
Edit: In /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/common/arch-forum-c.xml there are some other parameters you might be interested in:

<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="https://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php">
  <Param name="keywords" value="{searchTerms}"/>
  <Param name="search_in" value="0"/>
  <Param name="sort_by" value="0"/>
  <Param name="sort_dir" value="DESC"/>
  <Param name="show_as" value="posts"/>
  <Param name="action" value="search"/>
</Url>

Last edited by lahwaacz (2016-01-03 13:48:24)

navi_se

Member

Registered: 2015-07-06

Posts: 135

Re: [SOLVED] Search query from url into the forum (using qutebrowser)

Ah, yes! That works!

I was just experimenting with

https://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?ac … eywords={}

which is what you get if you perform an empty search. Curiously, if you swap {} with a term right after performing the empty search, it will work, but if you then attempt the same thing from a random page you only obtain another empty search.

Your ordering works instead, and so I can use:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?ke … ion=search

Also thanks for the other parameters, one can also use the search function of the forum with different parameters to see them in use and customize to one's liking.