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carefulnow1
carefulnow1

Reputation: 841

Automatically Google Search from JavaScript

I am trying to write a website that advertises all of my YouTube videos, with quicklinks to my videos and social media. I do want a search function but I don't want the hastle of messing about with plugins and PHP or Java Servlets or ASP.NET. I have seen you can use Google to do this for you by searching {term} site:{site to search}. How would I go about doing this from JavaScript? I am already storing the user's input from the search box in a variable in JS. How would I go about entering this into Google automatically without any plugins. Purely JavaScript and HTML.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 634

Answers (1)

T.J. Crowder
T.J. Crowder

Reputation: 1073968

Just send a form to http://www.google.com/search with a field called q with the text of the search. You'll probably want to capture the form's submit event so you can add the site:xxxx part before submitting the form; that's the only JavaScript involved, the rest is just a <form> element.

Of course, using www.google.com means you'll be sending people to the U.S. site, as opposed to their country-specific site (if any).

Upvotes: 1

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