Safari Keyword Search

Note: Safari Keyword Search currently does not work in Safari 5.2. Please read my blog post for more info.

This is a simple extension for Safari 5.1 and above to enable keyword search from the address bar. The following searches are included:

• a: amazon.com
• d: duckduckgo.com
• down: downforeveryoneorjustme.com
• e: ebay.com
• g: google.com
• gm: maps.google.com
• imdb: imdb.com
• so: stackoverflow.com
• w: en.wikipedia.org
• wa: wolframalpha.com
• y: youtube.com

To edit or delete these, or add your own, right-click any web page and select “Keyword Search Settings”. Here you can add keywords and search URLs, and delete or modify the existing ones. Put @@@ in the search URL to insert the search string, or use %%% if you want spaces to be encoded as %20 instead of +. It is also possible to have keyword expansions without search strings.

The url for the Default keyword is used when no other keyword is provided, and what is entered into the address bar doesn't look like a URL. This is set to Googles “I am feeling lucky” search by default.

Limitations

• The search term cannot contain a colon symbol (:), as this makes Safari believe something is wrong with the URL protocol. Two typical uses for this is to use site:example.com in Google to limit your search to a specific domain, and cache:example.com/article.html to view the Google cache of a specific page. Workarounds for these two cases are provided: Any Google-search containing site= or cache= will convert the = to a :.
• Preferably, the settings should have been in the Extensions tab of the Safari preferences window, but the API for this is currently too limited.

Installation

Download extension

To install, simply double click the downloaded file.

Created by Arne Martin Aurlien | View on GitHub | Tweet