Unable to set 'Encode spaces as…' to a non-encoded space character

[matthewmcvickar]

I have a custom web search for the music website Boomkat, and they recently changed their search so that it generates URLs with the spaces not encoded as spaces. So the URL https://boomkat.com/products?q[keywords]=low motion disco works, but the URL https://boomkat.com/products?q[keywords]=low%20motion%20disco does not work. In my opinion, the website is Doing It Wrong, but is there any way around this if the website won't change how it does things?

 

If I click the 'Encode spaces as' box and just hit spacebar and then 'Save,' it changes the space back to the `%20` default.

 

Details:

This is always replicable.

Alfred version: 5.5 [2257]

macOS version: Sonoma 14.5

 

Screenshots:

Here is the custom web search window in Alfred:

 

 

And the result of typing in, e.g., `bk low motion disco`:

 

 

[FireFingers21]

@matthewmcvickar It's the way you're encoding the square brackets around "keyword". They should be encoded too, not just the spaces. Leave the encode spaces setting to its default of "%20", and your Search URL should look like this:

 

https://boomkat.com/products?q%5Bkeywords%5D={query}

[matthewmcvickar]

Aha, that did it!! Thank you so much. Tricky.