Qwant search engine on Vivaldi
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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
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@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.
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Off topic.
That's an interesting new (for me) Search Engine.
I learn something. :grin:
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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
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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.
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@mathojojo
You're right. Glad you're more creative and realize what more to be done. :laughing:
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Wow I never heard of that search engine before, but now I am enjoying it a lot
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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 resultsweb
: webnews
: news sitessocial
: social media sitesimages
: picture/imagesvideos
: videosshopping
: 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.)