No Web Results when using Startpage as a search provider

[antdking]

Describe the bug Pretty much on the tin. No Web results when using Startpage, only on-device results. With + without VPN. DuckDuckGo results work fine.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Set Startpage as your search provider
2. Go to 'Home'
3. Click on 'search'
4. Type a search term (Hello World)
5. No results

Expected behavior Either:

• search results for StartPage
• or; a message to say Quick Results aren't supported for StartPage

Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem.

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: pixel 6
• Android version: 12 QRP
• AIO Version: 4.4.0 beta 29

Additional context I understand if this a feature to be implemented. I've raised as a bug instead; as, to a user, this is unexpected without messaging to explain it's not supported well, like what you do for under-screen fingerprints.

[zobnin]

Hm... StartPage removed its suggestions API so I will remove its support in the next version

[antdking]

Oh no, please don't drop Startpage. Perhaps allow us to set our own search url, basic substitution? It's useful to be able to type before opening the full browser (better app + Web being together)

[zobnin]

Yes, I will make it possible to add any search engine manually. No worries.

[zobnin]

AIO Launcher 4.4.0-beta13 now supports the connection of any search engine. To do this, you need to specify the address of the search query in the "Own search engine" option, replacing the search string with %s. For example:

https://google.com/search?q=%s
https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s
https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=%s
https://engine.presearch.org/search?q=%s

[antdking]

just gotten to a computer.

Suggestions now require the segment GET parameter to be present to give results, so might be simple for you to add the results back in. You can leave it blank, or set text, just so long as it's present.

curl -v 'https://www.startpage.com/suggestions?q=hello%20there&segment='
{"extended_data": {}, "suggestions": [{"text": "hello there"}, {"text": "..."}, {"text": "..."}]}

It looks related to their analytics; so best to play nice, and put segment=AIOLauncher, or something unique to your app.

[zobnin]

I don't see the point of bringing back support for a search engine that changes its API without warning, without maintaining backward compatibility. It would cost me more.

[zobnin]

You can write a simple search script that will handle search suggestions. Probably, a little later I will show an example of such a script for startpage.

[zobnin]

https://github.com/zobnin/aiolauncher_scripts/blob/master/community/starpage-search.lua

[mj-sson]

I stumbled across these messages after randomly installing the startpage script from the AIO Store. They appear every time you type a letter in search. Since I don't use startpage myself, I don't really know what they mean, but I thought I'd report it in case it's something important. Otherwise, please ignore this comment.

AIO Version: 4.9.1-beta4 Android: 13 Device: Google Pixel 7