From e7a9cfae6985dd6840e3a4d72728f8af45ac5a91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hazel Noack <hazel@webcontact.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:38:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added different search engines

---
 frontend/scripts/search.js | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/scripts/search.js b/frontend/scripts/search.js
index 812d3e1..f506bc6 100644
--- a/frontend/scripts/search.js
+++ b/frontend/scripts/search.js
@@ -3,9 +3,13 @@ console.log("adding features to search...");
 const form = document.getElementById("search-form");
 const input = document.getElementById("search-input");
 
+// https://stackoverflow.com/a/3809435/16804841
+const expression = /[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/gi;
+const urlRegex = new RegExp(expression);
+
 const searchEngines = {
     "g": {
-        action: "https://www.google.com/search/",
+        action: "https://www.google.com/search",
         name: "q",
     },
     "d": {
@@ -22,17 +26,33 @@ const searchEngines = {
     },
 };
 
-// https://stackoverflow.com/a/3809435/16804841
-const expression = /[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/gi;
-const urlRegex = new RegExp(expression);
-
 form.addEventListener("submit", event => {
+    event.preventDefault();
+
     s = input.value;
 
     // check if url
     if (s.match(urlRegex)) {
-        event.preventDefault();
         window.open(s, "_self");
         return
     }
+
+    // Check if the string starts with ! followed by a key from searchEngines
+    let selectedEngine = {
+        action: form.getAttribute("action"),
+        name: input.getAttribute("name"),
+    };
+
+    for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(searchEngines)) {
+        const prefix = `!${key} `;
+        if (s.startsWith(prefix)) {
+            selectedEngine = value;
+            s = s.slice(prefix.length); // Remove the !{key} prefix
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    const url = new URL(selectedEngine.action);
+    url.searchParams.set(selectedEngine.name, s.trim());
+    window.open(url.toString(), "_self");
 });