tobiasbielefeld/simple-search

[Android] Simple search app with a widget

simple-search's Issues

Choose your Searx instance

Please change searx.me to being Searx were you can set the searx instance by entering the searx url.

[Feature] Add dark theme

Some people sent me e-mails asking for a dark theme

add metager

would be nice to have also metager on the app:

https://metager.de/meta/meta.ger3?focus=web&eingabe=%s

Introduce limitations on search history storage

I like having my search history, but I don't want an unlimited list of search history stored forever (even if it is just on my own device).

Could we see an option to limit the search history by either a count or date?

• Delete search terms older than X days.
• Only keep the past X searches.

For instance, I'd love to keep the past 30 days of search terms. Or, if the option was based on a number, then the past 100 searches. Anything older, I'd like Simple Search to forget.

suggestion/request: addition of Qwant

Hi.

Many europeans love and use it.
https://www.qwant.com/
It may be fine to have it in the app.

Thanks.

icon

Hello, thank you for the wonderful application, I want to ask you if it is possible to remove the icon from the application to save space on the desktop.

Ecosia integration

Use Ecosia is a new trend, so i and much other use it. Please add it to the list.
https://ecosia.org/search?q=%s

Feature Request: Use Webview Instead Of Browser

A cool option to have is the ability to have the search result load in your default browser or in Andriod Webview. Something Similar to what SearchbarEx app does.

add changelog

can you please add changelog.
what is CHANGELOG ?

[Feature Request] Add search suggestions

First of all: Thanks for this great little app!

I have a feature request though: It would be nice if it was possible to enable search suggestions for those search engines that support them (like DuckDuckGo).

[Feature Request] Add bookmarked search queries

From an e-mail I received:

I have one suggestion that, if implemented, would perfect the app in my opinion. I suggest an option to save search presets in the list, even when history is off. So they would be sort of like bookmarks for our common search queries.
For example, if I want to keep up on news about Linux through YouTube, I could save a preset/bookmark in my list as "!yt linux" with Simple Search set to use Duckduckgo. Then whenever I open Simple Search, I could just click on that and it will quickly pull up results of Linux on YouTube without me having to type it again. Or I could save a shopping query for quick selection like "!az mailer packages".

Feature Request: filter search history by current query

At the moment, the search history is static and sorted chronologically:

Apples
Bananas
Pineapples
Strawberries
Blueberries

This doesn't change when a query is typed:

Apple <
Apples
Bananas
Pineapples
Strawberries
Blueberries

So I would like the search history to be filtered by the current query

App <
Apples
Pineapples

Feature Request: Change Toolbar Color

I like using DuckDuckGo and it feels weird having a blue toolbar at the top. If it is possible to customize the toolbar color by the user that would be excellent. I would set my toolbar to orange.

Mastodon account for this project

Would a Mastodon account for this project be possible?

Quick swap between search providers

Coming off of the app SearchBar EX, the only large feature I think is missing is the ability to temporarily change providers easily through a pullout or dropdown rather than opening settings to do so.

[Feature request] Add install by OpenSearch

First thanks a lot for this great little app!

Right now, adding a custom search engine means

• find search template URL and replace the search term with %s
• add it in the Settings to one of Custom 1 to 3

I'd suggest to make adding possible via the OpenSearch protocol. Many websites already use it: they have a HTML tag on their main page, like here:

<link 
  rel="search" 
  type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" 
  href="https://www.findfind.it/opensearch/n/de.deu"
  title="FindFind.it: de.deu"
/>

This tag refers to an XML file which then contains a search template URL:

<Url
  xmlns:s="http://serchilo.net/opensearchextensions/1.0/"
  type="text/html"
  method="get"
  template="https://www.findfind.it/n/de.deu?query={searchTerms}"
/>

So this can be then used to add the search engine to Simple Search.

Even more the OpenSearch protocol also can specify a tag for the suggestions, as requested in #11:

<Url
  type="application/x-suggestions+json"
  template="https://www.findfind.it/opensearch-suggestions/n/de.deu?query={searchTerms}"
/>

So implementing this feature would allow users to simply drop to Simple Search the main URL of any search engine.

What do you think? Let me know if you need any help to implement this. :)

Make internationalization easier

by using a dedicated platform, such as translatewiki.net

[Feature] Add a transparent theme

integration of local app searches

For internet search this is a nice app, but whenever I want ro search the web I directly use a browser... I think a big benefit to use a search app/widget would be given if it would do an instant local search. Many apps have some form of searchable contentproviders and it would be great to search them all from a common place -like this app. Maybe not blindly anything, but configurable, to allow use cases like instant search in the addressbook showing the results in a drop down, and in the drop down also an entry to search a web search engine and the navigation app for locations, but never the emails...