Creating
Custom Search Engines in Chrome:
Here is
a trick, which you can learn in few minutes and hope it will be Greatly Useful
& Time Savior (it helps me a lot). You might know this but if you don't,
you should explore it.
Before
using custom search you need to "create custom search".
1.
Adding a Custom Search Engine:
The
easiest way to open the search preferences window is to right-click (Mac:
ctrl+click) in the address bar and select ‘Edit Search Engines…‘ –
alternatively, you can also go toPreferences -> Default Search: Manage.
This
opens up the Search Engines setting page as below:
Go to
the Other Search Engines (bottom section). You’ll notice (to your big
surprise?) that a lot of different search engines have already been added. This
is because Chrome automatically adds search engines to the list after you
search from a site. Most of the ones you’re looking to add are probably already
there, but you need to change the keyword.
Otherwise,
it’s pretty easy to add a search engine manually. You just need to supply the
name, keyword and URL. Not simply the site URL, mind. You’ll need to show
Chrome where to insert the search string.
To find
the correct URL, simply launch a search on the site, and take a look at the
address bar. You’ll need to replace your own search query with %s to create the
search URL for Chrome. Perhaps even easier, you should be able to search for
‘%s’ on the site, and just copy the entire URL.
Just
for illustration i will show you one custom search (which i use a lot), created
for saving the YouTube Video to any required Format using.
Scroll
down till the end, Type in "some name" for your search engine in
first field (for example: Video Downloader, this will be appeared as header
while searching).
Type
the Keyword (Only important thing you need to remember while searching
later), lets say "video". Get the exact search format for that
particular site, Type that in third field and replace the search query with
"%s"
Once
You are done, it will be added to your Custom Search List as below:
2.
Using Custom Search Engine
Now
Forgot everything what you have done so far for setting the search engine. Only
thing you need to remember is associated keyword ("Remember Second
Field".! video).
To use
that custom search, type keyword in chrome address bar and hit
"Space" key, and then type in your search query and hit enter. This
will immediately redirect you to desired site and shows the search query.
Screenshot
attached, using just created "video" keyword, and copied
random YouTube video link as search query.
Voila.!!!
You save it's video/audio whichever format you want to.
Want
some search to be used extensively, make that engine DEFAULT, and then you
don't even need the keyword. Just
paste your query in the address bar (sounds familiar right? searching something
on google, you just type search query right.! Because google is your default
search engine).
3. For
Some Complex Searches
For
some complex search (where you don't have direct pattern to Search_URL), you
can write some html script. Just pass the script path with proper arguments as:
