solved [SOLVED] Setting up a google site search?

[mlevison]

So I'm struggling to automate a simple google search and worst thing is googling is almost an exercise in recursion ?

 

I've written alot of blog posts over the years and I frequently want to run a google site search to find specific posts. If I have a search bar the following syntax works:

"Site:agilepainrelief.com {query}"

 

In alfred I configure an "open url" object with: https://www.google.com/search?site:agilepainrelief.com {query}

 

I've tried playing with encoding the space or the colon assuming their incorrectly coded. No dice I always end back at https://www.google.com/webhp with no search having been run.

 

Cleary I'm missing something.

 

Any ideas?

Mark

[deanishe]

Your URL is wrong. It isn’t /search?query it’s /search?q=query

 

 

[vitor]

1 hour ago, mlevison said:

In alfred I configure an "open url" object with: https://www.google.com/search?site:agilepainrelief.com {query}

 

You’re giving site as a special URL parameter and it isn’t — it’s part of the search. What you want is https://www.google.com/search?q=site:agilepainrelief.com+{query}.

[mlevison]

Thanks that appears to have done it. It was "q=..." part I had wrong.

 

Cheers

Mark