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Star Warp

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This integration adds a quick “jump to first search result” URL to any Astro site using Pagefind. With that, your users can search within your website from their browsers search bar directly.

Inspired by HiDeoo’s Starlight Jump To and Astro’s Wormhole.

Installing the integration

Terminal window
npx astro add @inox-tools/star-warp

How to use

With the integration installed, navigating to <your site>/warp?q=your search term will navigate to the first result of that search.

For example, go to https://inox-tools.fryuni.dev/warp?q=logger and see where you land :)

This works completely statically, you don’t need SSR to use this integration.

Using with Starlight

This integration is also a Starlight plugin! Using it as such enables better defaults inferred from your Starlight config.

Just move it from the integrations property on your astro.config.mjs to the plugins property in side the Starlight integration:

astro.config.mjs
import starlight from '@astrojs/starlight';
import starWarp from '@inox-tools/star-warp';


export default defineConfig({
  integrations: [
    starlight({
      plugins: [starWarp()],
    }),
    starWarp(),
  ],
});

OpenSearch

You can enable the generation of an OpenSearch Description with the following configuration:

astro.config.mjs
import starWarp from '@inox-tools/star-warp';


export default defineConfig({
  integrations: [
    starWarp({
      openSearch: {
        enabled: true,
      },
    }),
  ],
});

With OpenSearch enabled, add the following to the <head> block of your pages:

<head>
  <link
    rel="search"
    type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
    href="/warp.xml"
    title="Astro Site"
  />
</head>

The href property is defined by your project’s base and OpenSearch path parameter. The title property can be anything you want, it will be used by the browser when displaying the search bar.

Using on browsers

Chrome

Chrome will automatically load the OpenSearch Description once you navigate to any page with the link tag, but it will keep it deactivated. To enable it:

  1. Go to the Chrome Settings Search Engine page.

  2. Search for your site under “Inactive shortcuts”.

  3. Click on the “Activate” button.

chrome

Once activated, typing anything after the domain will switch the Omnibox to searching on your website:

chrome-omnibox

Safari

Safari will automatically load the OpenSearch Description once you navigate to any page with the link tag. From then on, you’ll see an option to search the site when typing anything after the site:

safari

Configuration

path

Type: string
Default: /warp

The path of the warp route.

openSearch.enabled

Type: boolean

Whether an OpenSearch Description should be generated on the configured path followed by .xml.

Defaults to false when used as an Astro Integration and true when used as a Starlight plugin.

openSearch.title

Type: string

The OpenSearch Description’s site search title.

Defaults to the Starlight title when used as a Starlight plugin and the string “Astro Site” when used as an Astro Integration.

openSearch.description

Type: string
Default: Search <title> where <title> is the OpenSearch Description’s site search title.

The OpenSearch Description’s site search description.

License

Star Warp is available under the MIT license.