DramaWiki Firefox/Mozilla Search Plugin

groink · Post by **groink** » Dec 28th, '05, 10:02

For those of you who use DramaWiki for your Asian TV drama education...

I've written a Mozilla search plugin for DramaWiki. I've already run the plugin by Ruroshin, and he gave me the thumbs up! If you are running Firefox or some flavor of Mozilla (Opera and Netscape are others), you can use the plugin.

http://www.groinkcaps.com/daddicts/addengine.html

Try using the hyperlink posted on that web site. It'll attempt to install the plugin for you, using the web browser's built-in plugin installer. However, if that doesn't work with your browser, there are instructions on the same page on how to install the plugin manually. The plugin may also be compatible with Apple's Sherlock search tool.

Enjoy!

--- groink

Post by **MoerkJ** » Dec 28th, '05, 11:32

The auto-install worked like a charm. very nice.

bugsie · Post by **bugsie** » Dec 28th, '05, 11:38

gee.. this is nice. pretty useful. everyone using firefox should try this.

liannejoy · Post by **liannejoy** » Dec 29th, '05, 07:22

works like a charm...thanks so much for this!!

bLaCkNbLuE · Post by **bLaCkNbLuE** » Dec 30th, '05, 01:22

Thank you for this! It works great!

shichif · Post by **shichif** » Jan 18th, '06, 08:51

Thank you so much!

This is very very useful for me.

HUAY · Post by **HUAY** » Feb 18th, '06, 23:54

wa ^__^ super cool ness =D thanks tons xD~~

hakuharu · Post by **hakuharu** » Feb 19th, '06, 21:53

How could I miss this? Thank you very much, it'll come in handy

jieshi · Post by **jieshi** » Jun 9th, '06, 11:40

Thanks so much! I can't wait to start my education!

Post by **Jannah** » Jun 9th, '06, 16:09

I love Firefox search plugins! <3 Finally we have one for the DramaWiki. Thanks groink!

guccijana · Post by **guccijana** » Jun 9th, '06, 16:32

life made simpler hihih saves lota of time.. thxxx groink

tekistar · Post by **tekistar** » Jul 6th, '06, 04:55

My love for Mozilla just increased dramatically. =O

Fieryshadow · Post by **Fieryshadow** » Jul 20th, '06, 05:53

what does it do actually? =x

ohlovelyy · Post by **ohlovelyy** » Jul 20th, '06, 06:06

I've been waiting for something like this!
Thank you!

draco · Post by **draco** » Jul 20th, '06, 06:22

WORKS LIKE WONDER.
THANKS A LOT

tejizo · Post by **tejizo** » Jul 21st, '06, 04:09

It's magic.
Many thanks.

Tackey · Post by **Tackey** » Aug 14th, '06, 03:25

Ah, this is wonderful! Thanks for the plug-in since I visit the wiki often.

rikki · Post by **rikki** » Aug 31st, '06, 07:32

omg...a new reason i like firefox even more...thx heaps!

Meli · Post by **Meli** » Oct 14th, '06, 21:29

Excellent! I was just wondering if this existed and it does. Thanks!

BigNoodle · Post by **BigNoodle** » Nov 14th, '06, 22:26

hi there

I just found this thread, and I'm so hapy, tht's exactly what I was looking for... but...

I'm surfing on Firefox 2 and it doesn't work... What can I do ??

groink · Post by **groink** » Nov 14th, '06, 22:38

BigNoodle wrote:hi there

I just found this thread, and I'm so hapy, tht's exactly what I was looking for... but...

I'm surfing on Firefox 2 and it doesn't work... What can I do ??

I've tested the plug-in under Firefox 2 (I'm right now on version 2) and it works. So it may have something to do with the installation process. I would try using a manual method of installation:

1. Download the RAR package:

http://www.groinkcaps.com/daddicts/dramawiki-en.rar

2. Close ALL Firefox windows.

3. Uncompress the RAR package.

4. Locate your Mozilla profile, which on a Windows PC would be at:

C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<your profile name>\seachplugins

NOTE that Application Data may be a hidden folder. You need to enable show hidden files in order to see the App Data folder.

5. Copy dramawiki-en.xml into the searchplugins folder.

6. Run Firefox. DramaWiki (en) should now be among the list of search engines.

--- groink

expanzee · Post by **expanzee** » Nov 15th, '06, 06:54

Nice work!

BigNoodle · Post by **BigNoodle** » Nov 15th, '06, 18:37

thanks, I'm gonna try right now !!
but actually, it's not a problem that I canot install it, but I cannot search for anything with it

and even when I'm on the Wiki drama page, the search engine can't find anything.

expanzee · Post by **expanzee** » Nov 15th, '06, 19:24

BigNoodle wrote:thanks, I'm gonna try right now !!
but actually, it's not a problem that I canot install it, but I cannot search for anything with it

and even when I'm on the Wiki drama page, the search engine can't find anything.

Mine works like magic.

BigNoodle · Post by **BigNoodle** » Nov 16th, '06, 15:10

groink> I didn't have to to what you just explained, it was already there... It's just that even if I type something like "Kim" the search engines founds no answers... Even though I know there are a lot of entries with KIM

groink · Post by **groink** » Nov 16th, '06, 21:16

BigNoodle wrote:groink> I didn't have to to what you just explained, it was already there... It's just that even if I type something like "Kim" the search engines founds no answers... Even though I know there are a lot of entries with KIM

I see... This is actually a limit placed on DramaWiki. I don't think it can search for words of 3 letters or less. The technical reason for this limit is to ease up on the amount of processing by the site's search engine (i.e. MySQL.) In SQL, the smaller the search keyword, the heavier the processing load. You'll have to resort to using Google and search using the parameter: "site:wiki.d-addicts.com kim" (without quotes), or use the Google search engine built into DramaWiki. The Firefox plugin will only search using DramaWiki's built-in search engine.

--- groink

expanzee · Post by **expanzee** » Nov 17th, '06, 07:05

Yeah ... I tried searching for Kurosagi and it pops out perfectly.

BigNoodle · Post by **BigNoodle** » Nov 17th, '06, 16:28

ok ! thanks !

it actually works perfectly knowing that ^^

skachild · Post by **skachild** » Dec 2nd, '06, 12:56

wow... cool....

thanks groink..!!

Athaclena42 · Post by **Athaclena42** » Dec 3rd, '06, 02:51

Love this...thanks so much!

BigNoodle · Post by **BigNoodle** » Dec 3rd, '06, 11:42

yeah, very useful (when you know how it works, lol)

simsy · Post by **simsy** » Jan 9th, '07, 23:59

thank you!

Simsy

loveless_soul · Post by **loveless_soul** » Mar 30th, '07, 02:39

yay! it work! ^^ many thanks!

now i can search more easily xDD

TRaven · Post by **TRaven** » Mar 30th, '07, 04:12

NICE! i'm always using the wiki!

Auty · Post by **Auty** » Mar 30th, '07, 04:27

Awesome! Thanks so much.

ruisu · Post by **ruisu** » May 31st, '07, 04:47

cool, ty. this should save me some keystrokes

blue.berrii · Post by **blue.berrii** » Jul 28th, '07, 00:47

thank you thank you. very useful seeing how frequently i use dramawiki. !! ^^

andrecommissair · Post by **andrecommissair** » Sep 30th, '07, 21:52

I've just noticed this plugin and installed it straight away on my MAC. Works perfectly. Thank you so much!!!

acmiss

atskv9 · Post by **atskv9** » Oct 23rd, '07, 08:16

I actually like using the built in google search for d-addicts and drama wiki, do you know what url I would use when modifying the src file?
This is the url I come up with after searching on one of them(it would obviously be modified to match either of those cases:

"search terms" is what was searched

bluenvision · Post by **bluenvision** » Nov 28th, '07, 20:57

Sugoi *_* So useful. Thanks.

kwazyboi · Post by **kwazyboi** » Nov 28th, '07, 21:10

you rock groink... you took my drama addiction to another level

idkkwhy · Post by **idkkwhy** » Dec 2nd, '07, 20:36

WOAHH. (:
that makes my day so much easier aahaaha. (:
thanks.

chokubi · Post by **chokubi** » Dec 18th, '07, 14:07

Damn, I just stumbled upon this thread.
That's an awesome Firefox search plugin to have!
Thanks a ton groink!

mewific · Post by **mewific** » Dec 18th, '07, 14:12

thanks for posting this!

Raspberry Latte · Post by **Raspberry Latte** » Dec 21st, '07, 04:08

Really cool tool! Many thanks

Gluestick · Post by **Gluestick** » Jan 20th, '08, 15:11

This would be great for Opera too...

hoosdathu · Post by **hoosdathu** » Jan 25th, '08, 10:25

great job u've got there, dude!

temariatra · Post by **temariatra** » Feb 14th, '08, 17:41

thanks a lot ^^works guud ^^

RoOoNaH · Post by **RoOoNaH** » Feb 21st, '08, 17:51

Great!!~

That's really what I need to =D

Thanx a lot for sharing that with us

melonyhappy · Post by **melonyhappy** » Jul 9th, '08, 17:33

hey that's so cool!

xxShanice · Post by **xxShanice** » Aug 10th, '08, 12:42

Thanks a lot!

ntense · Post by **ntense** » Aug 10th, '08, 13:02

Cool, thxs!!

rezeero · Post by **rezeero** » Aug 17th, '08, 21:34

brilliant!

pn0yb0i · Post by **pn0yb0i** » Aug 17th, '08, 21:41

Ive been using it for a couple years, and never posted here before.

It works like a charm!

ninjasauce · Post by **ninjasauce** » Feb 16th, '09, 02:40

wow this is a pretty good tool. im gonna use it more often

tiky · Post by **tiky** » Apr 20th, '09, 08:13

so i guess this doesn't work anymore huh ?

groink · Post by **groink** » Apr 20th, '09, 08:23

tiky wrote:so i guess this doesn't work anymore huh ?

Try it again...

tiky · Post by **tiky** » Apr 20th, '09, 08:27

groink wrote:Try it again...

oh yeah sorry my bad

Tnx !

cassiopaeia · Post by **cassiopaeia** » Apr 27th, '09, 00:10

ooh. that is sweet! Thanks.

br4nd0n · Post by **br4nd0n** » May 15th, '09, 00:16

I didn't realize this existed so I made two Firefox search engine plugins.

One searches using wiki's search

the other searches using google search on wiki.

Since you have one up I'll post the other.
the thread is here
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopi ... 30#1189830

And i'll attach it here also.

Thing about it is that you have to install it yourself. Put it in the folder for your OS mentioned on the first author's site.

For Windows
Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/searchplugins

Works for Firefox 3 which uses .xml

MitsukaiKuroi · Post by **MitsukaiKuroi** » May 15th, '09, 00:37

Added it!!! This app is sweet! Thank you to the genius that came up with this idea!!!

nugi_kawaii · Post by **nugi_kawaii** » Jun 9th, '09, 15:57

wow.. i've search in mozilla homepage but there isn't any..
thanks anyway...

br4nd0n · Post by **br4nd0n** » Jun 9th, '09, 17:26

nugi_kawaii wrote:wow.. i've search in mozilla homepage but there isn't any..
thanks anyway...

it may take time but I will be there one day

RivFader · Post by **RivFader** » Jun 9th, '09, 17:58

Oh my god.... This is so cool...!!!

I use the "quick search" feature of Firefox already really often for wikipedia, google and imdb... and now I can add the drama-wiki to it...

Thanks mate!!!

LilyJade · Post by **LilyJade** » Jun 10th, '09, 07:45

So good! I love it! Very good idea! Thank you very much! d(^_^)b

zenith777 · Post by **zenith777** » Apr 21st, '14, 11:39

Thank you fabulous groink~! Save a lot of time to search

Maytaj · Post by **Maytaj** » Aug 18th, '14, 10:08

The auto-install worked like a charm. very nice.

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