Solved search - URL for search suggestions for Google and others?

[alexs77]

When I set the search engine to bing and I enter some terms in the address bar, I get suggestions shown right there.

This doesn't happen when I select Google or my self hosted SearXNG to be the default search.

I guess I'd need an "URL für Suchvorschläge" (URL for search suggestions)?

[Pathduck]

@alexs77 See:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/search?term=searx
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/16991/guide-search-suggestion-url

The one for SearX is kind of silly though, there's better ways.

I have:
URL: https://searxng.se/search
POST param: q=%S, safesearch=0
Suggest URL: https://searxng.se/autocompleter
Suggest POST param: q=%S, safesearch=0

This was mostly to test POST, if using GET it's much simpler of course - just look at the resulting URL and edit as required.

[OakdaleFTL]

As far as I know, the search suggestions provided from the address bar are an internal function... Outside search providers aren't involved.

[quivenda]

For Google, add this suggestion URL

https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=chrome&q=%s

[alexs77]

@quivenda thanks. this did do the trick

Now I just need to find the correct URL or parameters for my SearXNG. Simply enabling JSON output format isn't enough.

[Pathduck]

@alexs77 See:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/search?term=searx
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/16991/guide-search-suggestion-url

The one for SearX is kind of silly though, there's better ways.

I have:
URL: https://searxng.se/search
POST param: q=%S, safesearch=0
Suggest URL: https://searxng.se/autocompleter
Suggest POST param: q=%S, safesearch=0

This was mostly to test POST, if using GET it's much simpler of course - just look at the resulting URL and edit as required.

[alexs77]

I've put some manual steps on https://www.reddit.com/r/Searx/comments/163ede9/search_suggestions_in_the_address_bar_of_vivaldi/

Works fine with GET.

I'd suggest to use:

Suggest POST param: q=%S, safesearch=0, autocomplete=google

^^^^ "autocomplete" needs to be enabled. By default it's disabled in settings.yml.

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Found the solution with some help by unixfox on matrix chat.

Go to the start page of the SearXNG installation (in my case: https://searx.foobar.vip)

• View the source code and search for type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" rel="search" . For me, it would be at https://searx.foobar.vip/opensearch.xml?method=GET&autocomplete=google
• "Download" that file and look for the URL in the line containing rel="suggestions" type="application/x-suggestions+json"

This is the URL to use. In my case: https://searx.foobar.vip/autocompleter?q={searchTerms}