Keywords not (always) working on custom web searches

[OmarKN]

Hi and good day,

This is a test setup: 
https://www.citizengo.org/en/search?q={query}

When searching for "Victories" which is a top item, this worked.
but

when searching for "Press" which is a bottom item, it did not work.

This is only 1 example.

Please view the screen dump:

 

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with best regards, Omar KN, Stockholm, Sweden

[vitor]

Again, this is dependent on the website, the search is implemented by them. Alfred is just telling macOS to open the URL, which passes it on to the browser. Whatever happens next is in the hands of the website.

 

Custom searches don’t search a webpage, they open it. They are a quick way to access a website’s own search functionality, which has to be a URL that exists.

 

The one you’re trying is invalid, it does not exist on the website and it does not appear to have search functionality.

[OmarKN]

thank you, I'd like to find some webpages where this actually works. 
I've not yet discovered any where their page SEARCH has an identifiable URL.

[vitor]

You need to first find a website which search functionality. Then do a search and look at the resulting URL. E.g. if you search on YouTube for alfredapp, the resulting URL is https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alfredapp.