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Search confluence through browser extension?

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

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Andrew Frayling

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.

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Andrew Frayling

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.

Does that do what you want?

Andrew.

tobias leenaert

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.

Andrew Frayling

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

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.

tobias leenaert

thanks andrew, i installed the history extension :-)

Martin Dube

If it ever worked ... Today, six years later, the option refered by @tobias leenaert 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.

Bill Bailey

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.

Martin Dube

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.

Dallas Morrow

Still works in Chrome but I'm not seeing how to do this in Firefox.

Colleen E Hamilton

To my delight, I found that this "just works" in Chrome:

Right-click in the URL bar
Choose "Edit Search Engines..." (see first screenshot)
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.)
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")
Now you can just just go to the URL bar, type "conf" and hit Tab, and search Confluence! 😁

Anthony Davis

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

Gabriel Corral

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+~+"{searchTerms}"&queryString={searchTerms}

leo_na

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

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