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Posted: **Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:23 am**

I am currently working on being able to search in subsonic directly from the Google Chrome search bar. (Officially called the Omnibox.)

Basically I want to add a search engine to Chrome so that I can open a new tab and quickly search for a song, artist or album.

I know it can be done using the REST api, but that returns XML.

What I need to know is how to search using Subsonic's search implementation through the URL in a HTTP GET request.

Any ideas?

Posted: **Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:27 am**

So here is what I have so far:
I made a new file called googleSearch.jsp and placed it in the webapp directory.

Here is the file's contents:

Code: Select all: <html> <head> <title>Google Chrome Search</title> <script type="text/javascript"> function gup( name ) { name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]"); var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)"; var regex = new RegExp( regexS ); var url = unescape(window.location.href).replace(/\+/g," "); var results = regex.exec( url ); if( results == null ) return ""; else return results[1]; } function passpar() { document.getElementById("query").value = gup('q'); document.forms["searchForm"].submit(); } </script> </head> <body onload="passpar()"> <div style="display:none"> <form method="post" action="search.view" name="searchForm"> <table> <tr> <td> <input type="text" name="query" id="query" size="28" value=""> </td> <td> <input type="submit" id="submitform" onclick="passpar()"> </td> </tr> </table> </form> </div> </body> </html>

Basically it parses the url and sends the "q" parameter's value to the textbox. Then it submits the form.
So the url would be: [subsonic]/googleSearch.jsp?q=[searchString]

The next step is to set up a chrome search engine. The url should be [subsonic]/googleSearch.jsp?q=%s

Here is the problem: It searches fine, but it is only the search window. It does not have all the frames.

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