Consistent I'm Feeling Lucky macro for Google

Made a workaround Greasemonkey script:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Google IFL
// @match        https://*.google.com/*?lucky=*
// @match        http://*.google.com/*?lucky=*
// ==/UserScript==

document.getElementById("gsr").style.display = 'none'; // optional. shows blank screen before forwarding. just looks better imo.
document.getElementById("gbqfq").focus();
var pathname = document.URL;
var start = pathname.indexOf("?lucky=");
var searchterm = pathname.substring(start+7);
document.getElementById("gbqfq").value = decodeURI(searchterm);
var btnLucky = document.getElementsByName('btnI')[0];
btnLucky.click();

This script will always forward you to Google's "I Feel Lucky" choice provided you navigate to www.google.com/?lucky=searchterm_goes_here.

I'm using it in FireFox by having a keyword to a bookmark going to www.google.com/?lucky=%s.

When you have Javascript disabled, it seems that Google uses both a cookie and the HTTP Referrer header being set to https://www.google.com to track if you actually came from the Google home page and clicked the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. I don't think you'll be able to convince Google to hand you the lucky result with just a URL.

The best solution I've come up with is: Chrome > Preferences > Manage Search Engines... add:

Search Engine: I'm Feeling Lucky
Keyword: \ (replace with your preferred shortcut)
URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&btnI

Then as per this thread, add the following Greasemonkey / Tampermonkey script to reload the page with Google as the referrer.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         I'm feeling lucky fix
// @version      0.0
// @description  Makes Google I'm feeling lucky work reliably from the address bar
// @author       Will Rice
// @match        http://*.google.co.uk/search?q=*&btnI
// @match        https://*.google.co.uk/search?q=*&btnI
// @match        http://*.google.com/search?q=*&btnI
// @match        https://*.google.com/search?q=*&btnI
// ==/UserScript==

document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.display = "none";
window.location.href = location;

Setting the script to "run at body" and adding any additional Google TLDs as you see fit (I couldn't get regex working in Tampermonkey).

Consistent I'm Feeling Lucky macro for Google

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