No convenient programmatic access to the search

[mjdominus-ly]

I want to set up a search macro for my browser's URL bar, so I can type err blah and have it go visit https://errors.haskell.org/?q=blah.

There doesn't seem to be any way to do that, because the search bar is an embedded JS thing with no API.

Ultimately there ought to be a real API where a program can post a string or error code and get back a description or a URL, but that would be a separate bug report. All I am currently requesting is a distinct URL for each search.

[david-christiansen]

Thanks for the feedback!

Do you know a good way to implement this without any server-side programming? Having the site be a simple static site really simplifies the maintenance and hosting, and I'd like to preserve that if possible.

For instance, what if the search field were pre-populated with the contents of a GET parameter? Would that help?

[mjdominus-ly]

The Javascript can look at the query parameters and, if there are any, prepopulate the input field with the query parameters instead of with the placeholder text.

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[david-christiansen]

Right - would this be sufficient for your use case?

[mjdominus-ly]

Yes, I think so. I can tell the browser to visit `https://errors.haskell.org/?q=blah`, then the code in `tableFilter.js` can see the `q=blah` in the query parameters, fill the input field with `blah`, and do the search as if I had typed `blah` manually.

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[david-christiansen]

Great to hear!

[hasufell]

I have a similar problem, which might have a separate solution. I want a link to ALL GHCup errors. That doesn't have to be done with the filter, we could just have a subpage for grouping.

[BinderDavid]

This has been fixed by #387 If there is still some missing feature please shout :)