Chrome extension for searching JREF

[Matty1973]

I have been using the Chrome extension called Context Search which allows you to highlight any text and then search easily in Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, Ebay.

It would be great if I could get it to search the JREF forums but I don't know how to set it up - has anyone done it? You have to insert %s in the right place of the search string but I don't know how for the JREF.

Here's the set up for the above sites (these are not links to click, but are the set up string needed by the extension)

Google - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&page={startPage?}&utm_source=opensearch

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s

EbayUK - http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=%s

Much appreciated if you can work it out.

 

[dtugg]

I don't think it is possible to set it to use the forum search engine. But you can set it to use Google to search the forum. Which is probably better anyway.

Just paste this address in:

http://www.google.com/webhp#hl=en&source=hp&q=%s+site%3Aforums.randi.org&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=57d9c86769d1bf04

 

[Matty1973]

Thanks for that. It might take a bit of getting used to Google results instead of the forum search engine but it does work fine.

 

[This is The End]

I don't think it is possible to set it to use the forum search engine. But you can set it to use Google to search the forum. Which is probably better anyway.

Just paste this address in:

http://www.google.com/webhp#hl=en&source=hp&q=%s+site%3Aforums.randi.org&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=57d9c86769d1bf04

Isn't that just the link you get when you add this to your searches:

site:forums.randi.org

(You can limit the google search to any site by adding site: and whatever comes between http:// and the next / to your search, and you can leave out the www)

For instance to search eBay using google instead of eBay search, add site:ebay.com to your google search.

 

[Cuddles]

Thanks for that. It might take a bit of getting used to Google results instead of the forum search engine but it does work fine.

Bear in mind Google can only search the public sections.

 

[moopet]

After a quick look-see, this seems to work for me, though ymmv:

http://www.internationalskeptics.co...hildforums=1&exactname=1&showposts=0&query=%s

 

[Matty1973]

That is exactly what I was hoping for - thank you very much.