Search confluence through browser extension?
Asked by tobias leenaert:

Are there any plans for a browser extension to search Confluence? instead of having to click a confluence bookmark and then type something in the search box, it would be easier to be able to do that right away.

or am i missing something that already exists?

thanks

tobias


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Tobias,

On any site running Confluence if you right-click in the Confluence search box you'll get an option to:

* Add as a search engine - Chrome
* Add Keyword for This Search - Firefox

I suspect there are similar options for IE and Opera as well, but I don't have these browsers at hand to check.

If you added the keyword "confluence", for example, you could then type "confluence\<SPACE\>\<your search term\>", e.g. "confluence user macros" in the browser address bar and it will automatically search the Confluence site that you added.

Does that do what you want?

Andrew.

comments: author: tobias leenaert
body: thanks andrew, i didn't know this was possible, and it is certainly helpful. however, is there no option to have a search with autocomplete on? in my experience, after a while and with many users it may become difficult to remember the exact page where you put something, and then autocomplete helps a lot.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Tobias,

I'm not aware of a way to add auto-complete to the standard keyword search in a browser, but it may be possible to write an extension or add-on to do this.

I did a quick search for existing extentions and add-ons for Chrome and Firefox and found the following:

<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/atlassian>

[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=atlassian\&sort=name](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=atlassian&sort=name)

but I don't think any of them quite do what you want - though the Atlassian History extension for Chrome is very useful for keeping track of which pages you visited in a site powered by an Atlassian application.

Andrew.


author: tobias leenaert
body: thanks andrew, i installed the history extension :-)


author: Colleen E Hamilton
body: To my delight, I found that this "just works" in Chrome:

1. Right-click in the URL bar
2. Choose "Edit Search Engines..." (see first screenshot)
3. In the tab that comes up, look under Other search engines for Confluence
   * *If it's not already on the list, you may have to add it with the Add button. (For sample settings, see the third screenshot below.)*
4. To see the settings or change your activation keyword, click the vertical "..." button (shown in the second screenshot below), and choose Edit. (My activation keyword is "conf")
5. Now you can just just go to the URL bar, type "conf" and hit Tab, and search Confluence! ?

![EditSearchEngines.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27861iED30576B26A7F134/image-dimensions/495x249?v=v2 "EditSearchEngines.png")

![manageSearchEngines.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27859iE566658BC5E08D99/image-dimensions/503x277?v=v2 "manageSearchEngines.png")

![confluenceSearch.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27857iE724FE5B696FA0DF/image-dimensions/497x305?v=v2 "confluenceSearch.png")


author: Martin Dube
body: If it ever worked ... Today, six years later, the option refered by [@tobias leenaert](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/621928) does NOT seem to work. I've just tried in **Chrome** (v. 64.0.3282.140) and **Firefox** (v. 58.0.1) on **Windows 10** and I can't find the option under the right-click's contextual menu.

comments: author: Bill Bailey
body: Well it used to work, but you are right, it is gone. Could be a Firefox thing (they deprecated other features like WebDav with recent updates.


author: Martin Dube
body: Firefox still support **OpenSearch** metas. It would require Atlassian's developers to put back the **metas \& XML** to allow this feature to work in major browsers.

1. <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch>
2. <http://blog.coredumped.org/2012/04/opensearch-how-to-get-google-chrome-to.html>


author: Dallas Morrow
body: Still works in Chrome but I'm not seeing how to do this in Firefox.


author: Colleen E Hamilton
body: [@Dallas Morrow](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/328748) how did you get it to work in Chrome?


author: Joshua Richardson
body: I would love to know also. It used to work for me "by default". I would type "con", \<TAB\>, and it would auto-complete to "search confluence" and then I would type in my search term. Fantastic functionality. Sadly, I cleared my cookies one day, and the functionality stopped -- I'm guessing that wasn't a coincidence.


author: Dave Noonan
body: This worked fine for me. I suspect you need to be logged into the site before you try to search.


author: Anthony Davis
body: Chrome users can also try [this extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/confluence-quick-search/gimcmmlpmjffkpbomagapjhdfbbeldfk?hl=en) for searching Confluence. I add a keybinding so that the window pops open, it's an essential part of my workflow:

[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/confluence-quick-search/gimcmmlpmjffkpbomagapjhdfbbeldfk?hl=en](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/confluence-quick-search/gimcmmlpmjffkpbomagapjhdfbbeldfk?hl=en?)


author: leo_na
body: The new quick search link for Confluence is \`https://\<your confluence\>/wiki/search?text=%s\`


author: Anthony Davis
body: This is an open source Chrome extension for adding a keybind and search bar option. It makes searching your team's Confluence very fast.

[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/confluence-quick-search/gimcmmlpmjffkpbomagapjhdfbbeldfk?hl=en](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/confluence-quick-search/gimcmmlpmjffkpbomagapjhdfbbeldfk?hl=en?)


author: Gabriel Corral
body: I was able to get this to work in firefox by installing contextsearch extension and using this query as the template:

https://REPLACEME/dosearchsite.action?cql=siteSearch+\~+%22{searchTerms}%22\&queryString={searchTerms}


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