How to Setup a Custom Search in Google Chrome for the Devhub

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Hey everyone! Recently you’ve probably heard that our beloved platform’s documentation has moved to developer.roblox.com. If you were used to sifting through the wiki to find information, try setting up a custom search in Google Chrome (note: you probably can do this for any other good browser like Firefox).

Step 1: Open Chrome’s Settings for Search Engines

Paste chrome://settings/searchEngines in the address bar to be taken right there. Or, you can click the three dots at the top right and hit Settings. Then, scroll down a little and you should see an option to Manage Search Engines (you can also search the settings in the bar at the top)

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Step 3: Under Other Engines, click Add.

Use the following values for the fields:

  • Search engine:
    developer.roblox.com, DevHub, or anything else you prefer
  • Keyword:
    devhub, robloxdev, or anything else you prefer
  • URL with %s in place of query:
    https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adeveloper.roblox.com+%s

Here’s what I use.

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Step 4: Try it out!

Open a new tab and type your chosen keyword (above, devhub) then the Tab key. Next, type a query like “ParticleEmitter”. When you press enter, it’ll perform the search! Ta-da!

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Power users who find themselves looking for class pages could do something similar to jump directly to certain API pages. For that, you could use something like the following:

http://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/%s

Fun fact! You don’t even need %s in the URL. One of my college professors would set up tiny shortcuts like “1” and “2” to jump to his classes’ schedules with three keypresses: 1 + TAB + ENTER. I thought that was pretty clever too, so maybe that information might also be helpful to you.

Go forth and search, my friends!

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#2

Thank god. I was just about to ask for this. Good find!

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#3

Thanks!

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#4

Can you change the keyword? Instead of typing dev hub could I change it to something like dev forum like I usually call it?

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#5

The DevHub and Devforum are different. You could change it to devforum though if you want

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Just change the keyword to whatever you like.

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#7

The search feature on the developer hub got revamped, so this tutorial needed an update. The on-site link no longer works, so I’ve updated this walkthrough to use Google with site:developer.roblox.com query instead.

More information on the devhub’s search update here: