[Feature Request] Support for custom search engines - Githubissues

Rapptz / jimaku

A site for hosting (Japanese) subtitles

https://jimaku.cc

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[Feature Request] Support for custom search engines #6

Closed RadianttK closed 2 months ago

RadianttK commented 3 months ago

Feature

Support for searching for an entry via a query in the URL
- e.g. jimaku.cc/search?query=akira

Motivation

This would allow the user to quickly search for subtitles for a show using custom search engines / search shortcuts as supported by Chrome and Firefox

For example, a custom search engine could be added with

Shortcut: j
URL: https://jimaku.cc/search?query=%s

This would allow the user to search for subtitles of a show very quickly.

If the user wanted to search for subtitles for "akira", they could do so just by typing j akira into the search bar of their browser
- The user would then be automatically redirected to https://jimaku.cc/search?query=akira based on the custom search engine they added previously

Rapptz commented 3 months ago

I've mentioned this in #2 but the search is currently completely client sided. This is good for me since it offloads the most expensive thing out of the server and into the client instead.

However, this issue as-is is technically solvable even with the client sided search. It might be possible to do this without making a new endpoint, probably just jimaku.cc/?query=... and jimaku.cc/dramas?query=... would just prefill the input element with the pre-existing text. This needs testing though to make sure it's not buggy.