Force "I'm feeling lucky"

[dondiego87]

I'd like to set up a keyword to search Rotowire.com, because fantasy baseball runs my life now. Ideally the way this will behave is for me to enter "rw dejesus" (using David DeJesus as an example), then press enter to go to his page. Rotowire has no kind of API or URL scheme that I can figure out, so I decided to try using Google's "I'm feeling lucky." I set up a custom search with this search URL:

https://www.google.com/search?q={query}+site:rotowire.com&btnI

But when I test it, it just takes me to the Google search results instead of following the first link. Doing this without "+site:rotowire.com" does execute the I'm Feeling Lucky, bringing me to Baseball Reference. This makes me think it's something on Google's end, where the algorithm is deciding it's not sure enough to actually bring me to the top result.

 

Any ideas on how I can force it? Or alternatively, is there another way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.

[jdfwarrior]

I'd like to set up a keyword to search Rotowire.com, because fantasy baseball runs my life now. Ideally the way this will behave is for me to enter "rw dejesus" (using David DeJesus as an example), then press enter to go to his page. Rotowire has no kind of API or URL scheme that I can figure out, so I decided to try using Google's "I'm feeling lucky." I set up a custom search with this search URL:

https://www.google.com/search?q={query}+site:rotowire.com&btnI

But when I test it, it just takes me to the Google search results instead of following the first link. Doing this without "+site:rotowire.com" does execute the I'm Feeling Lucky, bringing me to Baseball Reference. This makes me think it's something on Google's end, where the algorithm is deciding it's not sure enough to actually bring me to the top result.

 

Any ideas on how I can force it? Or alternatively, is there another way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.

 

The query above seemed to work perfect for me. Could this be an issue with Google Instant Search? Try going to google.com/preferences, select "Never Show Instant Results" and try the search again and see if it works.

[dondiego87]

Hmm. Switching to "Never show Instant results" doesn't work for me. I also tried logging out of my Google account, as well as pasting the test URL into different browsers, with no luck. This is a weird one.

[dondiego87]

Turns out that DuckDuckGo has a similar functionality if you prepend your search with "!ducky" (no quotes). Cute, right? I am now using this Search URL for my Alfred Custom Search and it works like a charm:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ducky+{query}+site%3Arotowire.com