ebay.co.uk search box plugin

[cannonmc]

Now quite sure if this is the correct forum but seemed the best to me.

I suspect this may be somethings at ebay's end but I thought I'd start here.

Using Windows 7 and PM 28.16.0 (before latest update, waiting to be installed)

I have a plugin for ebay.co.uk installed in the search engine box along with the likes of Wikipedia, IMDB, youtube, amazon.co.uk and have been using it for a long time.

I don't know where I got it because I can't find a version again, only ebay.com

All was going OK until Friday. Previously when I entered a search term in the PM ebay box it took me straight to the relevant ebay.co.uk entries. But on Friday when I entered a search term the connection timed out looking for rover.ebay.co.uk

If I search with a blank box it looks for rover.ebay.co.uk but takes me to the ebay.co.uk home page

From that page if I use the PM search box (not ebay's own box) to search for an item it times out looking for shop.ebay.co.uk. The actual ebay.co.uk search is as normal

All the other searches from the PM box are working OK, including ebay.com

If anyone has come across this problem I would be grateful for any help. Thanks

[moonbat]

Rightclick within the search box on ebay.co.uk and you can add a keyword search for it, it will get saved as a bookmark rather than a search plugin, but you can activate it from the addressbar like with other keyword searches.

[billmcct]

With PM closed, put this file into the "searchplugins" folder in your profile. Start PM and look in your search engines.

ebaycouk.xml

[cannonmc]

Thank you bill, that worked a treat, once I found where my other plugins were stored.

Didn't really understand moonbat's suggestion as I don't get 'keyword search' but never mind

[Isengrim]

Didn't really understand moonbat's suggestion as I don't get 'keyword search' but never mind

Keyword searches are similar to this feature in Firefox. (I had to look it up too.)

[cannonmc]

Thanks for the link but it seems an awfully long-winded way of searching when I have all the search engines I generally use as plug-ins in the box.

But nice to get a drop of extra info

[moonbat]

it seems an awfully long-winded way of searching when I have all the search engines I generally use as plug-ins in the box.

You do - but not all sites will have a search plugin and this is definitely easier to create and use than an XML file for a search plugin. And there is even support for multiple parameter keyword searches.

For example, using the guide above, I can do currency conversion directly within my address bar by typing 'curr <amount> <from currency> <to currency> as say 'curr 100 USD EUR' to convert from USD to Euros.

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javascript:var%C2%A0s='%s';%20url='https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=%s&From=%s&To=%s';%20t='';%20qc=0;%20chunks=url.split('%s');%20for(i=0;%20i<s.length;%20i++){if(s.charAt(i)=='"')qc=qc^1;%20t+=((s.charAt(i)=='%20'&&qc)?'^':s.charAt(i));%20}args=t.split(/\s/);%20nurl='';%20for(i=0;%20i<chunks.length;%20i++){nurl+=chunks[i];%20if(args[i]!=undefined)%C2%A0{args[i]=args[i].replace(/\^/g,'%20');%20nurl+=args[i];%20}}location.replace(nurl,'<%20BR>');

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Bullshit.