Qwant search engine on Vivaldi

mathojojo

Hello,

I would really like to add Qwant as the default search engine in Vivaldi, but I can't find a way to do it properly.

I noticed a similar (but old) thread, whith this procedure :

*"Works for me with Debian 8x64 and Vivaldi 1.0.435.42 x64

Open https://www.qwant.com/
Select the search field (with the spyglass) on webpage
Select in context menu "Add as search engine"
Enter qw as shortcut (nick) for the searchengine
Select [x] Set as Standard
Hit Add button

Now you should have Qwant as default search engine.
Open vivaldi://settings/search
You see that the engine is set."*

But, when I Right Click on the search field (with the spyglass), I don't see anything in the context menu allowing me to add a search engine...

So, is it a bug in newest versions of Vivaldi ? Can someone help me or try it ?

Thank you.

Vivaldi 1.6.689.46 (Stable channel) (64 bits)
Ubuntu 16.04 (KDE Neon) 64bit

dLeon

@mathojojo
Add this on search settings;
https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s&t=all
Tested & work.

Tip if you encounter search engine that act like Qwant (no add search engine offering):

Try to search something in their search box, for example TEST
After the search engine return something, look into the address bar. Replace any TEST with %s

Note:

That tip work if the search engine use GET method. Search engine like Starpage or Duckduckgo use POST method by default, so their hide the address bar result.
That tip work for any browsers.
Qwant didn't offer me to add search engine to Vivaldi as you mentioned.

dLeon

Off topic.
That's an interesting new (for me) Search Engine.
I learn something. :grin:

mathojojo

@dLeon

Mmmm, you should have explained the next steps too :) When I followed your steps, I then tried again to right click on the search engine to find a "Add search engine" item in context menu (I thought your steps would enable something in this context menu ;) ).

Try to search something in their search box, for example TEST
After the search engine return something, look into the address bar. Replace any TEST with %s
AND THEN
Copy the full modified address
Go to "Vivaldi Icon" -> Tools -> Settings
Select the search Tab
Push "Add a new search engine"
Paste the modified address in URL field
Choose a name (Qwant) and a surname (q)
Press "OK"

Now we are done :)

Thank you for your help anyway :) And nice that you discovered this Search Engine, which provide a perfect spyless interface, not collecting any personal data.

mathojojo

TLGreg

Just a note here, not a solution.

The "Add as search engine" function requires three things from the webpage:

The form must have an action.
The input element must be text type, or text like sub-type, like search, even number works, but for example date or color doesn't.
The input element must have a non-empty name.

On Qwant unfortunately the devs didn't add a name attribute to the search field.

Edit: I think this works the same in chrome itself.

dLeon

@mathojojo
You're right. Glad you're more creative and realize what more to be done. :laughing:

Reyfer

Wow I never heard of that search engine before, but now I am enjoying it a lot

IcePanther

Just FYI, in case anyone is interested :

If you don't want the search results to open in a new tab, you can add &b=0 at the end of the URL, e.g. :

https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s&t=all&b=0

You an also set the t parameter as you wish, it corresponds to category icons on the Qwant sidebar (you could even use different search engines in Vivaldi, if you want to directly access them) :

all : all results
web : web
news : news sites
social: social media sites
images: picture/images
videos : videos
shopping : shopping

For example, I set my own Qwant search to Web results, without opening links in new tab :
https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s&t=web&b=0

(I tried to add the suggestion URI https://api.qwant.com/api/suggest?q=%s&lang=fr_fr (you could replace fr_fr by your own language code) to Vivaldi, but it didn't work, suggestions did not appear.)