Web Search custom search: Non-escaped {query}

[Flying Sheep]

In the custom search, we can use {query} to specify some string to be replaced in the URL. The problem is that it always URI encodes the query.

 

Let's say, for some site, when I input "fruit/apple", it should go to http://some-site.com/inventory/fruit/apple, but not http://some-site.com/inventory/fruit%2Fapple

 

It would be awesome if someone can show me how to do that.

[Flying Sheep]

Sorry I guess I left the message in wrong section 😕 please move this thread to suitable places

[deanishe]

7 hours ago, Flying Sheep said:

It would be awesome if someone can show me how to do that.

Assemble the URL yourself without URL escaping and open it with the shell/bash command “open https://my.url.com/here”.

 

I believe Alfred’s native Open URL command doesn’t escape the input if you pass a complete URL rather than inserting {query} into a partial URL.