Simplifying QS Web Search Catalog Searches

[Patrick Robertson]

Something I've thought of to try and simplify the web searches module would be to have two catalog entries.

One called:

Web Searches (Simple)

Web Searches (All)

At the moment, the default catalog entry: Web Searches (from docs.blacktree.com) gets a list of 500+ URLs (actually from http://querymap.appspot.com/quicksilver-list )

My suggestion is that we mirror the full 500+ list on QSApp (so we have control) then add a new list with say the very basic search URLs (say 20-30 tops)

We'd need to discuss what would be in it, but I guess it'd be pretty obvious.

What I've been having to do is create a duplicate of the current default catalog source, then add in only the URLs I want (by copying from the full list and pasting in my own list)

This is friggin' annoying! 

[Patrick Robertson]

If we were REALLY clever (and taking on board what Eric said about QS sending OS information when it requests stuff) we could see what language the OS is set in and return e.g. German Wikipedia, German Google etc. if the OS was set to de.

THAT would be cool! :P

[Patrick Robertson]

...e.g.

http://qs0.qsapp.com/plugin-data/web-search-list-simple

http://qs0.qsapp.com/plugin-data/web-search-list-full

[Luis Martins]

No developer here but i hope you wont mind me adding my vote for a simplified version. Theres no easy way to activate only a small amounts of searches.

Cheers!

[Patrick Robertson]

Tell me that this isn't cool?!

http://qs0.qsapp.com/plugin-data/web-search-list.php?type=simple

If you ask for ?type=full it'll give you the old list of 500+

Asking for this will give you a list based on you OS language. Non USers - check out the links. They should be stuff like '.de' and 'de.wikipedia.org' (try clicking one and testing)

Not all those links will work, e.g. I'm sure not all website has a .co.uk domain. In that case we'd just need to look at what that domain uses to set the language (e.g. ?lang=en ) and deal with that.

[Patrick Robertson]

See the PHP

http://pastebin.com/DEbVKR47