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sideside

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From: Saskatoon,SK,Canada

Registered: 2008-07-30

Posts: 22

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AUR package search - Firefox Plugin

Hey guys, dont know if anyone has done this before or not, but just made a Q&D (quick and dirty) ff search plugin..

I use swift weasel so my plugin is in /home/USER/.mozilla/firefox/default/searchplugins
firefox should be /home/USER/.mozilla/firefox/default/searchplugins

anayway i your search directory, make a file called something like ArchPackages.xml , open it up in a txt ed, and paste:

<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>Arch-Packages</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>Arch-Packages</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
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<UpdateInterval>1</UpdateInterval>
<UpdateUrl>http://btjunkie.org/btjunkie.src</UpdateUrl>
<IconUpdateUrl>http://www.archlinux.org/favicon.ico</IconUpdateUrl>
<SearchForm>http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php</SearchForm>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K={searchTerms}&do_Search=Go&O=0">
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>

and there you go! package searches from firefox!

have'nt figured out the icon yet, but who cares, if somone wants to put one in there go nuts....

evr

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Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: AUR package search - Firefox Plugin

looks good.  that being said, there are already a few archlinux specific search engines listed at mozdev.org including an AUR package one.

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engine … =archlinux

sideside

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From: Saskatoon,SK,Canada

Registered: 2008-07-30

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Re: AUR package search - Firefox Plugin

that works too

avinashrbhat

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Registered: 2013-11-05

Posts: 2

Re: AUR package search - Firefox Plugin

Sorry for necromancing an old thread, but there is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch which can handle this without any plugin in the client (Firefox or thereof). Although that means that the aur.archlinux.org should host an xml file with the search URL template.

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: AUR package search - Firefox Plugin

Mod note: Closing.

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