Below is a script which makes a search plugin for arbitrary site.
It can create plugin not only for search engines but for any dynamic site which accepts CGI parameters.
To create search plugin:
- Make a search of bareword searchTerms, then copy a url appeared in address bar of a browser
- Run the script with that url as parameter
- Redirect script output to .xml file in searchplugins directory of your firefox profile
As an example let's create search plugin for LiveJournal
- Search 'searchTerms' using the search form
Got url http://search.livejournal.ru/ljsearch?query=searchTerms&ie=utf-8
- run the script with url as parameter
perl mksp.pl Livejournal 'http://search.livejournal.ru/ljsearch?query=
+searchTerms&ie=utf-8' > ~/.mozilla/firefox/ze02d000.default/searchplu
+gins/lj.xml
- restart FireFox and enjoy with blue pen of LiveJournal in search plugins
#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use MIME::Base64 qw(encode_base64);
die "Usage: $0 Name 'SearchURLString'\n" if @ARGV < 2;
my ($name, $url) = @ARGV;
my ($site) = split '(?<![:/])/', $url;
my $ico = get($site . '/favicon.ico');
unless ($ico) {
$site =~ s{http://[^.]+\.}{http://};
$ico = get($site . '/favicon.ico');
}
die "Can't get favicon for $site\n" unless defined $ico;
my $base64 = encode_base64($ico);
$url =~ s/searchTerms/{searchTerms}/gi;
$url =~ s/&(?!amp;)/&/g;
print <<END_OF_SEARCHPLUGIN;
<SearchPlugin
xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"
xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>$name</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>$name</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Image width="16" height="16">
data:image/x-icon;base64,$base64</os:Image>
<SearchForm>$site</SearchForm>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="$url">
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>
END_OF_SEARCHPLUGIN
__END__