Add Custom Search URL? Topic is solved

[fatboy]

Good Day Community ,

I am trying to add DuckDuckGo Lite as a "custom" search engine. It doesn't use javascript and is why I want to set it as default. The URL one needs is as follows:

https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?t=palemoon&q=insert search term here

Can anyone help me with this? If I want to add a search engine, Pale Moon takes me to the Pale Moon website.

Thank You

[Isengrim]

Click your link to navigate to DDG Lite, then go to the browser's Search box, hit the down arrow on the left, and near the bottom of the menu should be an option to "Add DuckDuckGo (Lite)".

[fatboy]

Click your link to navigate to DDG Lite, then go to the browser's Search box, hit the down arrow on the left, and near the bottom of the menu should be an option to "Add DuckDuckGo (Lite)".

Wow, it's that easy?! Thank You!
I have added DuckDuckGo Lite Amazing!

[Goodydino]

Mycroft Projects has DuckDuckGo Lite as a search plugin here: http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=lite

[Moonchild]

The downside is that it won't count for searches for our project (since the t=palemoon is missing) which means no support through searches for the project.

[paulwratt]

The downside is that it won't count for searches for our project (since the t=palemoon is missing) which means no support through searches for the project.

half true, they are tracking it in 2 different ways:

Code: Select all

...
        <form action="/lite/" method="post">
          <!-- <a rel="next" href="/lite/?q=blah&a=palemoon& ... {snip}
          ...
          <input name="t" value="palemoon" type="hidden">
...

as long as the initial query includes "t=palemoon"

I was trying to get another querystring url search install, and I just happened to use the DDG Lite XML file as a basis. if a modified XML were stored in logically accessible place on a palemoon url, say at palemoon.org/opensearch/ddg-lite-qs.xml linked from palemoon.org/opensearch/ddg-lite.html with a blurb about why its there, then you have a 100% solution, that always starts DDG-lite a) with a query string, and b) with "t=palemoon" prepended.

actual modified xml:

Code: Select all

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"> 
  <ShortName>DuckDuckGo Lite QS</ShortName> 
  <Description>Search DuckDuckGo (Lite QS)</Description> 
  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding> 
  <LongName>DuckDuckGo Search (Lite, non-JS, QueryString)</LongName> 
  <Image height="16" width="16">data:image/x-icon;base64,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</Image>
  <Url type="text/html" method="get" template="https://duckduckgo.com/lite/">
    <Param name="t" value="palemoon"/>  
    <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>  
  </Url>
  <Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" template="https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?t=palemoon&q={searchTerms}&type=list"/>
</OpenSearchDescription> 

for it to be easily enabled, the reference html page then just requires in the head:

Code: Select all

<link title="DuckDuckGo (Lite QS)" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" rel="search" href="./ddg-lite-qs.xml">

(EDIT: this does not work from a "file://" url, so I just copied it into "palemoon/browser/searchplugins/" and restarted PM)

I presume you can also modify the default XML in the PM repo as well

cheers

Paul

NOTE: you should also modify the current DDG suggestions url to pass the "t=palemoon" also

[fatboy]

Aah, cool. Great work Paul! Would it be possible to add DDG Lite to the Pale Moon list of search engines with the t=palemoon included?