nextcloud / nextcloud/fulltextsearch
Feature request: Provide support for OpenSearch
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- Dominant language
- PHP
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Description
It's just a meta tag in the <head>-section of the HTML pages and a XML file with additional links to the search form, RSS-feeds and suggestions.
http://www.opensearch.org or https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch
Wordpress has a nice plugin for that purpose:
https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/open-search-document/ or https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-open-search-document/
OpenSearch example for Firefox:

Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing how the HTML pages produce their section and how the search form, RSS feeds, and suggestions are exposed. Compare the requested meta tag and XML document with the linked OpenSearch specification and examples. Done means the pages advertise a valid OpenSearch document that links to the requested search, feed, and suggestion resources.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100