How to add google chrome omnibox-search support for your site?

Solution 1:

Chrome usually handles this through user preferences. (via chrome://settings/searchEngines)

However, if you'd like to implement this specifically for your users, you need to add a OSD (Open Search Description) to your site.

Making usage of Google Chrome's OmniBox [TAB] Feature for/on personal website?

You then add this XML file to the root of your site, and link to it in your <head> tag:

<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Stack Overflow" href="/opensearch.xml" />

Now, visitors to your page will automatically have your site's search information placed into Chrome's internal settings at chrome://settings/searchEngines.

OpenSearchDescription XML Format Example

<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>Your website name (shorter = better)</ShortName>
<Description>
Description about your website search here
</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">your site favicon</Image>
<Url type="text/html" method="get" template="http://www.yoursite.com/search/?query={searchTerms}"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>

The important part is the <url> item. {searchTerms} will be replaced with what the user searches for in the omnibar.

Here's a link to OpenSearch for more information.

Solution 2:

Implementing omnibox support with search suggestions

The answer given by @element119 works perfect but here is a slightly tweaked code to support search suggestions as well as Mozilla Support.

Follow the steps below to implement omni box support for your site.

Save the following code as search.xml

<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
  <script/>
  <ShortName>Site Name</ShortName>
  <Description>Site Description (eg: Search sitename)</Description>
  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
  <Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">Favicon url</Image>
  <Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&amp;q={searchTerms}" />
  <Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://yoursite.com/?s={searchTerms}" />
  <SearchForm>http://yoursite.com/</SearchForm>
</OpenSearchDescription>

Upload search.xml to the root of your site.
Add the following meta tag to your site's <head> tag

<link rel="search" href="http://www.yoursite.com/search.xml" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="You site name"/>

Make sure to replace the domain urls with your domain.

How to add google chrome omnibox-search support for your site?

Solution 1:

OpenSearchDescription XML Format Example

Solution 2:

Implementing omnibox support with search suggestions

Related

Recent Posts