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)
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.
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!
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!
Changelog:
- 2019-02-28: Updated the URL from robloxdev.com to developer.roblox.com
- 2020-09-24: Devhub search has been revamped, changed to use Google
site:developer.roblox.com query