Guide | 🎲 Vivaldi Search Engines Collection 🎲

stardepp

@Pathduck said in Guide | Vivaldi search engines collection :

Access denied Error code 1020
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The same error occurs with me.

Catweazle

@stardepp , no problems here. Well, if not, it isn't so important. It's part of the SSuite, which I use since years

Pathduck

@Catweazle I think I've used SSuite before so probably just some temporary glitch. No worries

ketalar

@Catweazle
Hi,
It's not from me, but from:
https://searx.space
This URL compiles and seems more stable than the searX URLs, which may vary in time, and depend of your localization (?)
I've put it in a dedicated Speed-dial page.
I already can see that the list is updated from time to time, so I dunno if paulgo will stay the best.
But for now it works fine.
Regards,

ImaginaryFreedom

Can someone help me add "dict.org" dictionary search?

The "right-click on search box" doesn't work on that site and using the resultant URL with a variable substituted at the end doesn't work either.

Tried POST mode too but I don't understand how to make that work very well, my attempts to make that mode work also failed.

TIA

luetage

@ImaginaryFreedom Try this http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Query=%s&Strategy=*&Database=*&submit=Submit+query

ImaginaryFreedom

@luetage said in Guide | Vivaldi search engines collection :

@ImaginaryFreedom Try this http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Query=%s&Strategy=*&Database=*&submit=Submit+query

Yikes that's complex, let me see...

OK, that did work as long as I set it to use POST but with no POST parameters. Thanks much!

So how did you come up with that string? I'd like to improve my ability to create these searches when the straightforward methods don't work.

luetage

@ImaginaryFreedom See https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/599767

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