Open Search is a document description format for defining an API like interface to execute simple searches on that site. ex: http://example.com/search?q={searchTerms}
Getting started OpenSearch includes a data store and search engine, a visualization and user interface, and a library of plugins you can use to tailor your tools to your requirements. Get started in the way that best suits your team and your environment. To configure your first OpenSearch cluster, you can download the OpenSearch components in a variety of distributions or start with the official Docker Image.
See also: Open Search
Sites can declare their Open Search documents inside a <link> tag which browsers can use to download the XML document and present the site specific search to the user. Publishers which support the protocol can implement the following features:
- Generate RSS and Atom search responses
Clients which implement OpenSearch can provide the following features:
- Conduct site specific searches by associating a domain to its OSDD URL
- Generate HTML, Atom and RSS links via autodiscovery
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