{searchterms} doesn't work for everything

[Bhaalspawn]

when i search for more than 1 word like "brad pitt" and website doesn't use brad+pitt in the address but the space remain blak "brad pitt" or it's "brad-pitt"....the research fails

[CanisLupus]

Hi! Every website is different. Some will auto-convert spaces to their preferred format, others won't. If the website requires + between words and it doesn't convert them, you can use something like {searchTerms{ |+} to replace spaces with the plus sign.

Please take a look at the "Advanced usage" of the instructions to learn more about these replacements:

Hopefully this helps! Let me know :)

[Bhaalspawn]

Well it was very hard for me to understand all those codes but at the end i managed to did what i needed, replacing + with - and also adding (lowercase). So at the moment it's all good...

Sorry if i ask but i use another extension that has similar purpose but instead of {searchterms} i have to put %s...do you think it's possible to do the same thing? It's an extensions that allows me to create new search plugins

[CanisLupus]

Well it was very hard for me to understand all those codes but at the end i managed to did what i needed, replacing + with - and also adding (lowercase).

Nice! :)

Sorry if i ask but i use another extension that has similar purpose but instead of {searchterms} i have to put %s...do you think it's possible to do the same thing?

Names between curly brackets are just the way SSS does things, since it's unlikely to be part of an actual URL and allows it to support more stuff between the braces, like replacements. But I agree it's not pretty 😅 %s wouldn't be very flexible.

What are you trying to achieve with {searchterms} that works with %s on the other extension? Does it deal with spaces in some automated way? Something else?

[Bhaalspawn]

wait i found out that also the other extension support {searchTerms} but only the in this form......it doesn't accept the other features. i need the same thing i did for SSS so just the { |-} and a (lowercase)

[CanisLupus]

Alright! Don't know about the other extension but let me know if you have any other questions about SSS. :) Otherwise we can probably close this issue. Cheers!

[Bhaalspawn]

a solution would be if i can export engines created with SSS to the firefox search box ...the opposite that is possible to do now.

[Gitoffthelawn]

Hi! Every website is different. Some will auto-convert spaces to their preferred format, others won't. If the website requires + between words and it doesn't convert them, you can use something like {searchTerms{ |+} to replace spaces with the plus sign.

Hi all! Just FYI, I think @CanisLupus likely meant {searchTerms{ |+}} above. :)

[CanisLupus]

a solution would be if i can export engines created with SSS to the firefox search box ...the opposite that is possible to do now.

Sorry I didn't get that. A solution to what problem? I actually don't know if that is possible (it may be!) but SSS is not being actively developed (at least not for new features).

Hi all! Just FYI, I think @CanisLupus likely meant {searchTerms{ |+}} above. :)

Hi @Gitoffthelawn! :) Ooops, yes, you are completely right, it was missing the closing curly bracket. I guess it helps to show how ugly the syntax is 😅

[Bhaalspawn]

Sorry I didn't get that. A solution to what problem? I actually don't know if that is possible (it may be!) but SSS is not being actively developed (at least not for new features).

solutiion for what i need. if i could import engines created with SSS, i wouldn't need the other extension that adds new engines to firefox search box

[CanisLupus]

I see! Can you tell me the name of that extension you use? I suppose that if it can add engines to Firefox then so can any other extension, so I'm curious. I never researched that. :)

[Bhaalspawn]

add custom search engine

https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/add-custom-search-engine/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

[CanisLupus]

Thank you! 🙏

[Bhaalspawn]

for what?? i thank you if you can understand how to import there the search engines or if you can do a similar extension that can use all the features of SSS

[CanisLupus]

For showing me what extension this was :) Sadly there's no way to do that in SSS, but it's good to know that it may be possible to add engines to Firefox from an extension in some way.