Netlify Opensearch Plugin
Automatically generate OpenSearch search.xml file postBuild on Netlify deploy.
What is this?
Ever wondered why when you type a URL and the browser says "press TAB to search"? That's opensearch! In Chrome or Chromium, the URL bar (or Omnibox) offers the ability to search a site without navigating to the sites homepage. Once Chromium has determined it can search a site, any time the user types the URL of the site the user is reminded they can "press TAB to search".
Once the user presses TAB, they can type in a string and presses the enter. This automatically sents the user to the URL of the site search, along with their search terms, where the search is performed and results shown.
Type in the URL of the search demo site and see! https://netlify-plugin-algolia-index.netlify.app
Then press TAB and you can search the demo site directly!
Usage
To install, add the plugin in your netlify.toml
. No config is required.
[[plugins]] package = "netlify-plugin-opensearch"
Default config will generate the following file at https://your-site-name.netlify.app/search.xml
Search
Options
The available options.
plugins.inputs | type | required | default | description |
---|---|---|---|---|
searchUrl | String | false | <env.URL>/search?q= |
The URL of the search query, remembering that the search parameters are concatenated to the end as {searchTerms} |
searchFile | String | false | search.xml |
The name of the file to be saved to. You'll need to configure your metadata to point to this file. |
siteShortName | String | false | Search | A short name of the site to search. It must be 16 or fewer characters |
siteDescription | String | null | false | null |
siteTags | String | null | false | null |
siteContact | String | null | false | null |
Options Applied
How to use these options:
[[plugins]] package = "netlify-plugin-opensearch" [plugins.inputs] searchUrl = "https://different-website.com/search?q=" searchFile = "opensearch.xml" siteShortName = "My Site" siteDescription = "Search cool content from my site" siteTags = "my site" siteContact = "me@my-site.com"
Which will produce the following file at https://your-site-name.netlify.app/opensearch.xml
:
My Site Search cool content from my site my site me@my-site.com
Options On the Demo Site
For more context, this is how the demo site is configured:
[[plugins]] package = "netlify-plugin-opensearch" [plugins.inputs] siteShortName = "Demo Site" siteDescription = "Find stuff on the demo site" siteTags = "demos" siteContact = "luke@lukeoliff.com"
Which produced the following file as you can see here
Demo Site Find stuff on the demo site demos luke@lukeoliff.com
Install on your website
Now, a search metatag to the head of your site, changing search.xml
to match your configuration above.
To do
- Better support for the OpenSearch specification as documented here and here.
Contributing
Make pull-requests, but follow code of conduct please.