mlondon

@Stephen_C Hi Stephen, I'm the OP of the thread that set this in motion.
Really grateful to you and @sepulchra for making this!!!
 
It didn't work at first, but I saw in the debugger:
[16:50:58.025] ERROR: Move to new folder[Automation Task] Task not found 'com.alfredapp.automation.core/files-and-folders/directory.new'
 
I looked at the workflow and the Automation Task said "Automation Not Found" (or words to that effect). I clicked on it and my Automation Task list was empty. I clicked Update Tasks and it populated with all the tasks (guess I never used Automation Tasks before!). 
 
It's working fine now.
 
Thanks again. What a great community!
 

Got it. Thank you.
 
For those who may be interested, the correct URL to search Google with No Country Redirect is:
 
https://www.google.com/search?q={query}&pws=0&gl=us&gws_rd=cr&gl=us&hl=en&pws=0
 
Even if one is using a VPN, Google will make a best-guess of your location and automatically redirect search results to that country.
Using the above URL will force Google to make your search default to "no location" which will give you results as if you were in the US.
 

Thank you Johan - This is PERFECT !

@mlondon The built-in workflow you can use for this is under Workflows > [+] > Examples > Simple Folder Search  
 
Cheers,
Vero 

As best as I can tell, it can't be done.
 
You are going about it in the wrong way (adding search?q={query} may work for Google, but every website is different), but it's impossible to create a web search for Sci-Hub.tw because it uses POST requests for search, not GET, so there's no way to pass the search query to your browser or the website, nor to tell your browser it needs to use POST.
 

{query} in the custom search refers to what you've typed into Alfred - you can type in a comma-separated list of terms, and it will search for each term, just as if you had typed it into the ngrams search box.
 
Here are the directions for creating a custom search : https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/web-search/ - basically you need to click the Add Custom Search button and paste the URL I provided above.
 
It's really not hard to do, and well worth looking at so you can try the solutions other people have provided (preferably before saying they don't work....) even if you are not going to be creating your own custom searches.

This should do the trick.
 
Would it not be more useful to have a script that checks the setting every X minutes, and turns it on if it's off?