Is there anyway to report broken/request new bangs?

Brave Search
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I’ve had some issues with websites changing their search URLs and breaking its Brave search bang (https://search.brave.com/help/bangs). For example, allkeyshop’s !aks bang directs to their old search URL which no longer works. Is there an official way to report broken bangs?

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Are you referring to using the bang in the address bar when searching, or are you trying to use this within Brave Search itself?

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The bangs in Brave search itself, similar to the ones on duckduckgo.

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I’m being directed to the appropriate site when I use this bang in Brave Search. Can you share the URL that you’re being redirected to?

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It’s not that it’s redirecting to the wrong domain, it’s redirecting to the old format for the search URL which no longer works. !aks test takes you to /blog/catalogue/search-test, but the new URL is /blog/products/?search_name=test.

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Ahhh I see. Thank you for clarifying — I’ve informed the search team about this and will open an issue and hopefully have this resolved as well.

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Apologies for not making it clearer, the main point of my post was to ask if there’s an official channel for reporting broken bangs, like how DDG has a submittable form (https://duckduckgo.com/newbang). Needing to make a forum post every time one bang breaks seems a bit inefficient.
Thanks for the help :smiley:, I appreciate it.

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Not at this time, no. Will also suggest something like this for future releases.

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I did send feedback through the feedback form on Brave search. I frequently find myself using the Google Maps bang (!gm), but the query string that Brave populates doesn’t translate to useful search results compared to the query string that DuckDuckGo provides.

Brave “!gm taco bell” = https://www.google.com/maps/place/taco%20bell - doesn’t populate anything in the Google Maps search.
DDG “!gm taco bell” = https://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=taco+bell - populates useful nearby search results.

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They’ve sorted out the bang I used as an example, but they do really need a better way to report them. A github page for submitting pull requests would work :slightly_smiling_face: