Include the author's name in a custom search URL

[mariaclaudia]

Good afternoon. I hope I can explain myself well. In the Preferences - Look & Feel - Book Details option, where it says "Clicking on author names should:", I selected "Use a custom search URL". In the next box I enter the web address of the site in question, but I cannot get the author's name to be included when the page loads in the browser. The URL is "https://epublibre.org/catalogo/index" (according to the source code, that is the address where the search form points). However, it only loads the page but does not perform any search. What am I doing wrong?

[PeterT]

There is a tooltip displayed that reads


Enter the URL to search. It should contain the string {author} which will be replaced by the author name. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search={author}

[mariaclaudia]

Thank you very much for responding. Unfortunately it doesn't work. I have tried several combinations, but it doesn't work. Either I get error messages about disabled characters or it sends me to the search page showing me all the books they have. I checked the source code and found that the URL to send the search is https://epublibre.org/catalogo/index, the field they use to send the data to search is called bus so the full address would be

https://epublibre.org/catalogo/index?bus={author}

but it doesn't work.

This is the source code of the form. I hope it helps in some way, but I don't think it will be possible in this case.

<form action="https://epublibre.org/catalogo/index" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">

<div style="display:none">
<input type="hidden" name="csrf_test_name" value="b1deecb4e9ca716fcedd8662321e9072" />
</div>            

<div class="input-append">
<input class="input-small busca_inverse" id="bus" name="bus" type="text" placeholder="título, autor, colección" autocomplete="off" onblur="javascript:cambiar2();" onfocus="javascript:cambiar();"/>

<button id="buscador_btn" class="btn btn-small btn-inverse" type="submit"  onblur="javascript:cambiar2();" onfocus="javascript:cambiar();">
<i id="buscador_icon" class="icon-search icon-white"></i>
</button>
</div>

</form>

[chaley]

That form uses HTTP post and seems to depend on several cookies. I don't see any way to make it work with this plugin.

[mariaclaudia]

I imagined that. Also thank you very much for your support.