OpenSearch Description Generator

notification_important Update: Firefox Release 140.0 now supports adding custom search engines natively. To add a custom engine in Firefox go to Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts and click Add, then enter your custom search engine.

Generate OpenSearch description documents to create custom search engines for compatible browsers like Firefox. After generating a document, you can add it to Firefox from the Search bar, or from the address bar context menu.

Examples: Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, YouTube.

A brief title that identifies the search engine. Must contain 16 or fewer characters. Must not contain HTML or other markup.

A description of the search engine. Must contain 1024 or fewer characters. Must not contain HTML or other markup.

A URL by which a client can make requests for a HTML search results page. Must contain {searchTerms} in place of query.

A URL by which a client can make requests for JSON search suggestions. Must contain {searchTerms} in place of query.

A URL that identifies the location of an image that can be used in association with this search content.


Your Document Has Been Generated

You can add your generated documents to Firefox from the Search bar, or from the address bar context menu. If your having trouble you can read the "Add or remove a search engine in Firefox" support article.

Note: Firefox does not allow more than one search engine by the same Short Name (case-sensitive). This includes the built-in search engines even after they are removed (e.g. "Google"). Because of this all of our examples include an invisible character at the end.

List of Generated Documents

Below is a list of your previously generated OpenSearch description documents for you to download if you wish. These documents are generated dynamically and are not saved which means they will disappear if you close or refresh the page.