Guide | 🎲 Vivaldi Search Engines Collection 🎲

[Pathduck]

@ImaginaryFreedom What I do is open the Developer Tools (F12) on the page, Network tab, then do the search. I then examine the headers of the first request, looking at the payload arguments (for POST searches).

Here you can tell the engine uses POST:

Looking at the Payload > View Source:

I then (following the KISS principle) try to remove each url argument to see if they matter for the search or not. The cleaner the url, the easier to maintain when it breaks. In this case the &submit= part does not seem to be needed.

I also try to move the Query part to the end of the url, again it's easier to maintain when the %s is at the end. Usually the order of the arguments do not matter for web requests.

Ending up with the POST url:

https://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Strategy=*&Database=*&Query=%s

Note also the site supports HTTPS.

For GET searches of course, one just looks at the resulting address bar URL and works from there, it's much easier.

For more on url query strings, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string

I use Dict myself, but as a web panel, it's a good dictionary search, I really like the historic usages

[Pathduck]

@stardepp
Google Lens
Finally got it working, no idea why I didn't think to reverse-engineer Chrome's search params...

Video of it working: https://ttm.sh/qFv.mp4

URL:
{google:baseSearchByImageURL}uploadbyurl?url=%s
Image Search URL:
{google:baseSearchByImageURL}upload
Image Search POST Parameters:
encoded_image={google:imageThumbnail}

NOTE: Can't get favicon to work, even when editing Web Data directly... so it'll stay blank.

EDIT1: I found the value for keyword url search. Obviously this needs a image url for it to work:
lens https://vivaldi.com/wp-content/uploads/860w_Hero-4.png

[stardepp]

@Pathduck said in Guide | Vivaldi search engines collection :

EDIT1: I found the value for keyword url search. Obviously this needs a image url for it to work:
lens https://vivaldi.com/wp-content/uploads/860w_Hero-4.png

Where exactly do I need to insert this image?

[Pathduck]

@stardepp It's just an example of a keyword search using an image

<keyword> <image_url>

[stardepp]

Update 17. September 2022: Added search engine "Qwant Maps", many thanks to @Pathduck for his help with this

[stardepp]

Update Oct 31, 2022: Added "Desktopbackground Search" search engine. inspired by @Catweazle

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/20106/post-your-color-scheme-at-vivaldi/2

[Pathduck]

@stardepp Hi, your URL for Wiktionary points to Wikipedia.

Here's for Wiktionary EN:
URL:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
Suggest:
https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=%s

[stardepp]

@Pathduck I have added to the collection

And additionally I added this to my search engines, so also search suggestions for Wiktionary Deutschland, I only need change en to de at the search suggestions URl.

[Pathduck]

@stardepp OK

But like you say, URL is the same. So you should have:

Wiktionary (en)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

For Wikipedia (de):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

Your Wiktionary (de) URL is wrong, pointing to Wikipedia, it should be:
https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

Maybe stick with English searches for international sites? Otherwise you have to add all languages

[stardepp]

@Pathduck Have corrected all.

[danielson]

Ever hear of Findto?
Found this posted at ItsFoss.com forum
https://itsfoss.community/t/is-there-a-search-engine-that-covers-youtube-odysee-bitchute-rumble-etc/9750/13 :

Hey there.

Is there a search engine that covers Youtube, Odysee, Bitchute, Rumble etc.?

Yes! I want to help everyone, I don’t know if you know findto 2, it’s a decentralized and open source search engine, which you can add to your linux, windows, etc.

You can enter all this with this command.

source-code
[
{
"name": "Rumble",
"action": "https://url-rumble-sample/search",
"query": "q",
"color": "#b5b359"
},
{
"name": "Youtube",
"action": "https://url-youtube-sample.com/search",
"query": "q",
"color": "#b5b359"
},
{
"name": "Bitchute",
"action": "https://url-bitchute-sample.com/search",
"query": "q",
"color": "#b5b359"
},
{
"name": "Odysee",
"action": "https://url-odysee-sample.com/search",
"query": "q",
"color": "#b5b359"
}
]
As we can see in this code snippet, here are the urls that will be searches within the findTo engine. This code covers the urls that will be fetched and you can add more urls.

https://findto.app

[stardepp]

Here is an exciting video about the best search engine in the world, in German, but with subtitle translation.

The result is surprising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjm4Zm35Rb8

[Catweazle]

@stardepp , as a great test of the world best search engine, I have imagined something other than this crap about Google, Bing, Yahoo, DDG and Neeva (which is also paid, free only limited y full of ads).

[Catweazle]

@stardepp , add Playground, its a AI image generator, but you can use it for searching an image corresponding to the concept you search

https://playgroundai.com/search?q=%s

[Catweazle]

Similar AI image search with Krea.ai

https://www.krea.ai/?q=%s

[Catweazle]

Another image search and creating AI, Lexica

https://lexica.art/?q=%s

[stardepp]

@Catweazle I have gladly implemented for you:

[Catweazle]

@stardepp , try mwmbl, FOSS and privacy focused, very fast

https://mwmbl.org/?q=%s

[klov3244]

помогите с кодом поисковой строки для сайта https://myshows.me

[stardepp]

@klov3244 This search URL works:

https://myshows.me/search/?q=%s