Slickdeals Firefox Search Engine

[bradmeyerlive]

I'm just not code savvy enough to pull this off, but it'd be super cool to have a forum search engine for SlickDeals for the search bar. I can lead someone to the water if they can help us to all drink it.

Linky for geekish directions. (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox)

:nod: Looks on optimistically :nod:

[shoitz]

Sorry... I think what SD does is store the search on the server, and then assign each search a number string. So it'd take more digging to find out a way to run a search from a keyword in the URL, if it's possible at all. Basically, it doesn't store the search terms in the URL, which is a problem.

[XXnarg]

Belongs in Site Issues and Suggestions.

[bradmeyerlive]

I agree. Anyone able to move this for me?

[shoitz]

i don't think there's much chance of having the site changed to the an opensearch friendly format... i think this setup is to help control search traffic. it would be possible, however, to program a slickdeals opensearch button that just uses google to search slickdeals.net (or forums.slickdeals.net), but i don't know if anybody would be interested.

you could try building a sherlock plugin instead of opensearch, but i think you'll find similar problems.

[tsuperwanker]

An easier to understand (http://blog.unto.net/opensearch/add-opensearch-to-your-site-in-five-minutes/) article on how to do it. It takes 5 minutes, so why not?

[slickdeals]

It's on autodiscovery so the search box on your browser should light up.

[tsuperwanker]

It's on autodiscovery so the search box on your browser should light up.
It works, thank you slickdeals.

[bradmeyerlive]

WOW! It DOES work! Thanks huge!!! This is going to the top of my list!