Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Firefox search engine for media search (search.ownport.net)

There is small example how to create own search engine for Firefox based on Google custom search engine (http://www.google.com/coop/cse/). As engine will be used

1. Create XML file (for example, mediasearch.xml)

<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>mediasearch</ShortName>
<Description>My media search</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search">
<Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
<Param name="ie" value="utf-8"/>
<Param name="cx" value="008326703885599815669:rdhoqktsrko"/>
<!-- Dynamic parameters -->
<Param name="rls" value="{moz:distributionID}:{moz:locale}:{moz:official}"/>
<MozParam name="client" condition="defaultEngine" trueValue="firefox-a" falseValue="firefox"/>
</Url>
<SearchForm>http://www.google.com/firefox</SearchForm>
</SearchPlugin>

2. Store this file in directory C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins

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