Sometime ago, I promised Dennis that I’d record a screencast of how I created the RedMonk Firefox search plugin. On this day of learning to make screencasts then, here it is:
Here are the URLs for sites I used:
- Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox – the overview page that contains, among others things, the XML code to cut-n-paste.
- The data: URI kitchen page – allows you to create the BASE64 encoded version of you’re 16×16 icon.
- RedMonk Google Coop search page – this is the page and I used to generate the URL I pulled apart for the OpenSearch XML file.
- RedMonk’s OpenSearch XML file – the XML file that we use for configuration. Feel free to use it as a template as well ;>
One thing I neglected to mention is that the OpenSearch template provided on the Firefox page is invalid XML: it needs the first line to <?xml version="1.0"?>. You can see that in the RedMonk OpenSearch XML file.
If the screencast and files don’t help out, feel free to contact me and we’ll see what we can do.
Technorati Tags: firefox, opensearch, search
Very interesting!
I loved it! Have a look if you want
http://www.welovescreencasts.com/?q=creating-your-own-firefox-search-plugin
I’m sure will get many votes soon!
Thanks for this screencast!
actually kind of hard to see the screen in situ.
Thanks for this simple tutorial.
Now, the question is, how can you add your Google Co-op Opensearch feed to an aggregator like A9? That is, can you present the search results from your customised Google Co-op through another search portal . . .
This would allow simultaneous searching across mutliple Opensearch feeds . . .