Qwant and other search engines "suggestions" feature
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By default, when using DuckDuckGo for example, Vivaldi is able to display the engine suggestions.
For example, just entering "d Vivaldi" in the URL bar will suggest "Vivaldi browser", "Vivaldi four seasons", etc...I am trying to set-up the same feature for Qwant.
The search engine is added by using the following URL in Vivaldi settings, and it work as expected: https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s
️ However, does anybody know which URL to use for Qwant suggestions?I know that Qwant provides a way to access it. For example, try to click on this URL and check the result: https://api.qwant.com/api/suggest?q=vivaldi
But using https://api.qwant.com/api/suggest?q=%s in Vivaldi's settings does not seem to do anything.I suspect the answer not to be formatted into something Vivaldi expects. For example, DuckDuckGo's URL returns a json file which is not constructed the same way: https://ac.duckduckgo.com/ac/?q=vivaldi&type=list
This leads to my two other questions:
️ Is there any generic rule for such info, or has every search engine its own proprietary API, forcing web browsers to implement individual rules to get the "suggestions"?
️ Does Vivaldi expect something very specific, and if yes, what? -
@gwen-dragon Yep thanks, I already tried to search in the forum, but I missed your last link because there was no reference to Qwant
However, there is indeed interesting info in it, like the fact that this seems to be proprietary, and subject to payed licenses, which I did not know.
About the 2 other links:
- I had seen your 1st link before creating this thread, but it was not helpful: the last message just explains, like I did, that
https://api.qwant.com/api/suggest?q=%sdoes not work in Vivaldi, but without any more explanation. - Your 2nd link is German, and there does not seem to be anything related to search suggestions
edit: in fact, there is... but not easy to find correct search keywords when you are not german. And there is the answer i wanted!
- I had seen your 1st link before creating this thread, but it was not helpful: the last message just explains, like I did, that
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@guilimote The german thread pointed by @Gwen-Dragon contains the solution: using
https://api.qwant.com/api/suggest/?q=%s&client=opensearchas search suggestion URL. The "client" set toopensearchseems to convert the result in the right format.
Thanks!
The "paying license" stuff may only be related to integration of such solution by default. But this is a shame this is not more documented!
