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	evad	2010-02-27 , 01:42
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Originally Posted by Viqsi

Well, my webserver's upstream is being a PITA, and I was feeling especially perverse earlier today, so I ended up making a Javascript version of this concept. The advantage is that this is local to the n900, so you can still search Google even if these other services are down.

That's very neat solution. Thanks for sharing!

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	TomJ	2010-03-14 , 09:25
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Originally Posted by Viqsi

Getting the necessary URLs for said keywords is left as an exercise for the reader... unless you ask really really nicely.

Hope this helps!

It does indeed help. However, I wonder whether you casn help with a specific site. The excellent traintimes.org.uk has a very simple, bookmarkable query system of the format http://traintimes.org.uk /london /leeds /10:00 /next-tuesday /16:00 /next-wednesday

However, using the url string http://traintimes.org.uk/%s in search.htm doesn't work terribly well, as putting, f'rinstance, london/leeds in as the search string passes http://traintimes.org.uk/london%F2leeds, and the site returns a 404 error. Anyone know how to work around that?

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saxen	2010-03-14 , 17:31
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thanks that's really usefull!!!

i've post this on my blog...
and here u can find more keywords as:

urls['qcic']='http://www.quellicheilcell.it/blog/?s=%s';
urls['wikiit']='http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s';
urls['y']='http://it.search.yahoo.com/search?p=%s';
urls['fl']='http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%s';
urls['yt']='http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s';
urls['fb']='http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=%s';
urls['tw']='http://twitter.com/#search?q=%s';
urls['gim']='http://images.google.it/images?q=%s';

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	TomJ	2010-03-16 , 04:16
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Originally Posted by TomJ

It does indeed help. However, I wonder whether you casn help with a specific site. The excellent traintimes.org.uk has a very simple, bookmarkable query system of the format http://traintimes.org.uk /london /leeds /10:00 /next-tuesday /16:00 /next-wednesday

However, using the url string http://traintimes.org.uk/%s in search.htm doesn't work terribly well, as putting, f'rinstance, london/leeds in as the search string passes http://traintimes.org.uk/london%F2leeds, and the site returns a 404 error. Anyone know how to work around that?

Right, I've sorted it by simple expedient of inserting the line

Code:

redirUrl = redirUrl.replace(%2F","\/");

before the document location replace line.

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	TomJ	2010-03-18 , 22:29
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A little more testing shows I was only replacing the first slash. This:

Code:

redirUrl = redirUrl.replace(/%2F/g,"\/");

does the trick though.

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saxen	2010-03-20 , 13:54
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this trick can be also used to share links on any social network

try to add this command:

Code:

command['2fb']=’http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=%s’;

then write on address bar: "2fb http://www.yourlink2share.ecc..." and voilà! :P

more command here!!

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	Viqsi	2010-03-31 , 18:32
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Since folks seem inclined to share search engine info, here's mine, adapted from the ones that I use with Opera on the desktop, plus one or two extras (I have a shortcut to the HTML file I use as a least-common-denominator bookmarks repository, for example).

Note that I vastly prefer single-character searches when possible, unless I'm experimenting with something new (such as the airport flight info search towards the bottom, which was added literally last night...). Also, there's probably a nicer, more polite way to do the eBay search, but I haven't experimented.

PHP Code:


			
// Google

urls['g']='http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnG=Google+Search';

// eBay

urls['e']='http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=%s';

// Internet Archive Wayback Machine (so you can prefix any given broken link with a "w " in the address bar...)

urls['w']='http://web.archive.org/archive_request_ng?collection=web&url=%s&Submit=Take+Me+Back';

// W3C Website Validator (same principle as the Wayback Machine)

urls['v']='http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s';

// Froogle

urls['f']='http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8';

// English Wikipedia

urls['p']='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go';

// Internet Movie Database

urls['m']='http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s';

// Google Image

urls['i']='http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images';

// GameFAQs.com

urls['q']='http://www.gamefaqs.com/search/index.html?game=%s&searchplatform=All+Platforms';

// Google "I'm Feeling Lucky"

urls['l']='http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnI=Feeling+Lucky';

// hockeysfuture.com search

urls['hf']='http://hockeysfuture.craveonline.com/search.php?q=%s&imagefield.x=0&imagefield.y=0';

// Internet Hockey Database

urls['h']='http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/findplayer.php?full_name=%s';

// Port Columbus International Airport Flight Number search (sometimes buggy - their website needs work)

urls['pcia']='http://www.port-columbus.com/flight/flight/search2.asp?filterby=number&info=%s&adi=A';

// shortcut to my personal bookmarks file - yes, the redirect works just fine without search parameters ;)

urls['hh']='file:///home/user/MyDocs/.bookmarks/index.html';

(Note: Despite the label at the top, this isn't actually PHP code; it's still JavaScript - but the PHP code bbcode tag makes it look a lot nicer.)

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	Viqsi	2012-07-22 , 09:05
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It always bothered me that this little script idea couldn't handle searches that require POST and won't listen to GET (see: forecaster.ca). In about two and a half years, though, I never got around to doing anything about that.

...UNTIL NOW.
(see attached)

(I'm actually using this setup on more than just the n900 now - my next step is to try to get it functioning as a "search provider" on my jailbroken iPad, which will no doubt drive me completely insane. Wish me luck!

)

EDIT: Accidentally attached the wrong zip originally. This should be the right one. I blame the time of "day".

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