greghoch Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Hi, it would be great if Alfred supports web search suggestions or auto complete natively. There are some workflows that implement this feature for particular searches. e.g. http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1207-alfred2-workflow-for-google-search-suggestion-instant-search-and-current-site-search/ But native support would be great! Instantfox, for example, allows you to configure a search URL with %q for the query (same as search URL in alfred's custom searches) AND an optional "Suggest URL" that gets the auto complete suggestions. For google search, it's simply http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?json&client=firefox&q=%q&hl=en The addition of this feature would be great! Alfred could go a step further and allow the user to set a script that returns the auto complete suggestions (as an alternative to the "Suggest URL". Thanks! SCalkins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCalkins Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Hey! Great Idea -- I Love it! I would love an easy way to get autosuggestions from websites using json with GET! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdfwarrior Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Hi, it would be great if Alfred supports web search suggestions or auto complete natively. There are some workflows that implement this feature for particular searches. e.g. http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1207-alfred2-workflow-for-google-search-suggestion-instant-search-and-current-site-search/ But native support would be great! Instantfox, for example, allows you to configure a search URL with %q for the query (same as search URL in alfred's custom searches) AND an optional "Suggest URL" that gets the auto complete suggestions. For google search, it's simply http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?json&client=firefox&q=%q&hl=en The addition of this feature would be great! Alfred could go a step further and allow the user to set a script that returns the auto complete suggestions (as an alternative to the "Suggest URL". Thanks! Hey! Great Idea -- I Love it! I would love an easy way to get autosuggestions from websites using json with GET! Under the Example workflows area, there is already a workflow bundled with Alfred that provides suggestions. This is done with a workflow as opposed to built in to make it so that Alfred still functions properly when he doesn't have an internet connection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I've just made a workflow that supports quite a few auto-suggest search engines. It's written in such a way that you can (relatively) easily add new ones. A bit of coding is necessary, though. The problem I had was finding search engines that support the auto-suggest interface. If you know of any, please let me know. I'd love to add a few more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benben Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 +1 I think it should be built in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiONOntE Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 On 3/7/2021 at 9:24 AM, Benben said: +1 I think it should be built in! It's built-in now with the example workflow Google Suggest. But you have to add it yourself in the Workflows page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 2 hours ago, johanalfred said: It's built-in now with the example workflow Google Suggest That has been there for a very long time, and it doesn't come close to matching the workflow's features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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