Extension:GoogleCustomWikiSearch

This extension is professionally maintained by the WikiTeq team.

WikiTeq provides official support for MediaWiki LTS releases only. It may work with other MediaWiki releases.

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GoogleCustomWikiSearch Release status: stable
Implementation	Special page
Description	Allows MediaWiki integration with Google Custom Search or Google Site Search.
Author(s)	Ike Hecht (tosfostalk)
Maintainer(s)	WikiTeq team
Latest version	0.6.0 (July 2021)
Compatibility policy	For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension.
MediaWiki	1.31-1.35, 1.39
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Download Git master browse repository (Phabricator · GitHub) commit history repository contributors (GitHub) code review
Parameters $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchId $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchReplaceSearch $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchAppendToSearch $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchTheme $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchCodeVersion $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchOptions
Hooks used SpecialSearchSetupEngine SpecialPageAfterExecute
Quarterly downloads	7 (Ranked 133rd)
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Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

The Google Custom Wiki Search extension allows MediaWiki integration with Google Custom Search or Google Site Search.

Usage

Defines a special page (Special:GoogleCustomWikiSearch) that performs a Google search on the wiki. These results can also optionally be appended to the standard wiki search or can replace the built-in search functionality.

Download

The extension can be retrieved directly from Git ^[?]:

• Browse code
• Some extensions have tags for stable releases.
  • Browse tags
  • Select the tag
  • Click "snapshot"
• Each branch is associated with a past MediaWiki release. There is also a "master" branch containing the latest alpha version (might require an alpha version of MediaWiki).
  • Browse branches
  • Select a branch name
  • Click "Continue"

Extract the snapshot and place it in the extensions/GoogleCustomWikiSearch/ directory of your MediaWiki installation.

If you are familiar with Git and have shell access to your server, you can also obtain the extension as follows:

cd extensions/ git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/GoogleCustomWikiSearch.git

Installation

• Download and move the extracted GoogleCustomWikiSearch folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/GoogleCustomWikiSearch
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'GoogleCustomWikiSearch' );
  

• Configure as required
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

To users running MediaWiki 1.35 or earlier:

The instructions above describe the new way of installing this extension using wfLoadExtension(). If you need to install this extension on these earlier versions (MediaWiki 1.35 and earlier), instead of wfLoadExtension( 'GoogleCustomWikiSearch' );, you need to use:

require_once "$IP/extensions/GoogleCustomWikiSearch/GoogleCustomWikiSearch.php";

Configuration

Important: The global names were changed in version 0.3!

Basic

• $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchId - Google Custom Search ID - requires account with Google. The ID can be found in your GCS control panel under "basic information". Note that if this is left blank (not set in LocalSettings), the result will be a Google site search. (Note: There is a bug in the current version. If this parameter is left blank, you must set $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchCodeVersion = 1;.)
• $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchReplaceSearch - Set to true to completely replace the MediaWiki search engine with a Google search. Defaults to false.
• $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchAppendToSearch - Append to standard search results? Only makes sense if $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchReplaceSearch is false.

Advanced

• $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchTheme - This may be overwitten by Control Panel settings in Google script Version 2. Possible values are: 'DEFAULT', 'BUBBLEGUM', 'ESPRESSO', 'GREENSKY', 'MINIMALIST', 'SHINY'
• $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchCodeVersion - What version of Google's script we should use. This defaults to Version 2, which allows customization in your GCS Control Panel. Can also be set to 1, which was the default in version < 0.3.
• $wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchOptions - For those who want additional customization, set this instead of $gcwsID (which will be ignored if this is set). Set this variable to equal the insertion code provided by Google. Support for this feature is somewhat experimental.

It should be set similar to this example:

$wgGoogleCustomWikiSearchOptions = <<<END
    var customSearchOptions = {};
    var orderByOptions = {};
/* lots of other Google code here */
END;

Note: The custom search options variable may leave out customSearchControl.draw, though options will only display then if the variable is named "options".

See also

• Extension:GoogleSiteSearch