Problem with Custom Web Search

[SDupuie]

I am trying to create a custom web search that will take an input of "J6/AK5SD" (without the quotes) and produce:

 

https://www.qrz.com/db/j6/ak5sd

 

The following outputs will also work:

 

https://www.qrz.com/db/`j6/ak5sd`

-or-

https://www.qrz.com/db/"j6/ak5sd"

 

I suspect that Safari just reduces these formats to the first format, but I'm not sure.

 

I've tried a few forward quote and backward quote options without luck.

 

Can anyone tell me how to do that?

 

Thanks,

Scott

[Andrew]

Could you share the custom web search URL you currently have in Alfred? This should be super simple with a URL of, for example:

 

http://example.com/{query}

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[SDupuie]

The custom URL I am using is:

 

https://www.qrz.com/db/{query}

 

When I original wrote this help request it did't seem to be handling a slash inside the {query} the way I expected, but now it is. I'm not sure what, if anything, is different now but it seems to be working.

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

Scott

[deanishe]

It's most likely the encoding options in your custom search.

 

Alfred can't know if your input ({query}) is meant to be part of the URL or a parameter. Parameters need to be encoded so that they can't be mistaken for part of the URL. That means that / is replaced with %2F, for example. Alfred assumes by default that {query} is a parameter, so if you don't turn encoding off, when you add j6/ak5sd to https://www.qrz.com/db/, you get https://www.qrz.com/db/j6%2Fak5sd, not https://www.qrz.com/db/j6/ak5sd

Does that make sense?