# Feature request: dedicated search page **URL:** \ **Category:** Feedback\ **Created:** [September 10, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/feature-request-dedicated-search-page/32743 "2018-09-10T04:01:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hunter-baun](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/hunter-baun/32/33618_2.png) [@hunter-baun](https://community.wanikani.com/u/hunter-baun)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/feature-request-dedicated-search-page/32743/1 "2018-09-10T04:01:18Z")
(I recognize that this is a request for a non-trivial change that would require a good amount of work…) It would be really nice if WaniKani had a dedicated search results page with a nice HTTP GET parameter, so that I could set up a Chrome search engine shortcut to WaniKani results. I currently use [jisho.org](http://jisho.org) for basically all my kanji/vocab searches, and [tangorin.com](http://tangorin.com) for names, like so: [uketamawaru - Jisho.org](https://jisho.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keyword=uketamawaru) or [http://tangorin.com/names/inoue](http://tangorin.com/names/inoue) But in the Chrome address bar, I can just type “j uketamawaru” and it automatically constructs the right URL and goes to the jisho.rg results page for “uketamawaru”. Same with Tangorin: I type “jn inoue” and it goes to the right page. Because the WaniKani search is completely within the page, there’s no URL for it to construct: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/7/e/7e17200a61ce54667f4a61cdf9835cd18d239733.png) I.e., even though I searched for “to care about” and got a result, the page URL didn’t change, so there’s no way to go directly to it using a search engine shortcut. Anyway, if there were something like [WaniKani / Search](https://wanikani.com/search?q=to%20care%20about) that would show some results, I would probably switch my searches over to it. Does anyone else care about this? ---
**Author:** ![irrelephant](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/irrelephant/32/69530_2.png) [@irrelephant](https://community.wanikani.com/u/irrelephant)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/feature-request-dedicated-search-page/32743/2 "2018-09-10T06:38:34Z")
I wrote a userscript as a workaround for this because I also wanted to use a custom Chrome search. Would of course be nice to have this as a real feature, it is not the first time this was requested but there was no response last time this was requested. > [@\[Userscript\] Search WaniKani via browser search bar](https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-search-wanikani-via-browser-search-bar/30440): > > I created a little script inspired by this feature request: [https://community.wanikani.com/t/search-wanikani-via-chrome-search-bar/](https://community.wanikani.com/t/search-wanikani-via-chrome-search-bar/) It allows you to search WaniKani by using the parameter “q” in the URL, such as: [WaniKani — Log in](https://www.wanikani.com/dashboard?q=%E6%98%94%E8%A9%B1) This in turn will make it possible to define a custom search keyword e.g. in Chrome so that you can e.g. type “wk”, then hit space and enter the term you want to search for: [26] It is available via greasyfork: [WaniKani URL Keyword search](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40499-wanikani-url-keyword-search) Only tested it (br… ---
**Author:** ![hunter-baun](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/hunter-baun/32/33618_2.png) [@hunter-baun](https://community.wanikani.com/u/hunter-baun)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/feature-request-dedicated-search-page/32743/3 "2018-09-10T22:33:55Z")
Very nice! That’s basically exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![hunter-baun](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/hunter-baun/32/33618_2.png) [@hunter-baun](https://community.wanikani.com/u/hunter-baun)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/feature-request-dedicated-search-page/32743/4 "2018-09-10T22:37:24Z")
Now if the search box only accepted romaji… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/2/a/62a8b0f4c59ff2c5b6651ffcf43531480b3e5297.png) [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/feature-request-dedicated-search-page/32743/5 "2019-09-10T22:39:59Z")
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