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Magento OpenSearch | An Introduction

The Magento OpenSearch feature allows customers to search for products directly from their browser’s search bar. This helps leverage the OpenSearch technology, which is a standard for providing search functionality within web browsers.

Let’s take a quick look at how Magento OpenSearch works:

1. Magento offers provides an OSD (OpenSearch Description) file that describes the search capabilities of our Magento store. This file includes information like the search URL, search parameters, and so on.
2. When a customer visits our Magento store and has the OpenSearch feature enabled in their browser, the browser can automatically detect the presence of the OSD file. This prompts the user to add our store’s search functionality to their browser’s search engines.
3. When we choose to add our Magento store’s search engine, the customer configures their browser to send search queries to our store’s search URL.
4. Once the Magento search engine is added, customers can type search queries directly into their browser’s search bar, followed by a designated keyword. The browser then sends the search query to your Magento store’s search URL.
5. When our Magento store receives the search query it processes it according to the configured search parameters. The search results page is then displayed in the customer’s browser.

How to enable Magento OpenSearch

1. First, we have to make sure we are using Magento 2.4.0 or a later version since OpenSearch was introduced in Magento 2.4.0.
2. Next, we have to log in to our Magento Admin Panel. And head to Configurations under Stores.
3. After that, click Design under the General section and expand the OpenSearch section.
4. Then, enable OpenSearch and customize the OpenSearch options according to our needs.
5. Next, click the Save Config button to save the changes.
6. Now, Magento generates an OSD file based on our configuration settings.
7. We can now test if Magento OpenSearch is working, by opening a new browser tab and typing a search query followed by our configured search engine’s keyword. The browser will display our store’s search engine as an option in the search suggestions or auto-complete if the above steps were successful.

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Conclusion

To conclude, our Support Techs introduced us to Magento OpenSearch and demonstrated how to enable it.