Brave search in Safari

[waynesbrain]

With Google set as the default search engine, you can use the following script to redirect those requests to Brave search. I did it this way because Google offers good search suggestions in the address bar.

With this script, you can still switch from Brave to Google via the Google button in Brave's results then that will still work because Brave will not include &client=safari in it's request, which the urlFilter below requires.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Brave from Google
// @description Redirects iPhone Google searches to Brave.
// @run-at request
// ==/UserScript==

{
  "id": 202401051550,
  "priority": 1,
  "action": {
      "type": "redirect",
      "redirect": {
        "transform": {
          "scheme": "https",
          "host": "search.brave.com",
          "queryTransform": {
            "removeParams": ["ie","oe","client"],
            "addOrReplaceParams": [{"key":"source","value":"web"}]
          }
        }
      }
  },
  "condition": {
    "urlFilter": "||www.google.com/search*&client=safari|",
    "resourceTypes": ["main_frame"]
  }
}

Alternatively you can set Ecosia as the default search engine if you don't want to mess with Google URLs on your iDevice, and use this script:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Brave from Ecosia
// @description Redirects iPhone Ecosia searches to Brave.
// @run-at request
// ==/UserScript==

{
  "id": 202401051623,
  "priority": 1,
  "action": {
      "type": "redirect",
      "redirect": {
        "transform": {
          "scheme": "https",
          "host": "search.brave.com",
          "queryTransform": {
            "removeParams": ["tts"],
            "addOrReplaceParams": [{"key":"source","value":"web"}]
          }
        }
      }
  },
  "condition": {
    "urlFilter": "||www.ecosia.org/search*&tts=st_asaf_iphone|",
    "resourceTypes": ["main_frame"]
  }
}

[waynesbrain]

Small issue with this script: Redirect of default search engine only works once per tab on iOS

See #768

Also, you can see there that I did eventually use Ecosia as the default instead of Google because I'm afraid that Google will detect me as a bot elsewhere on my network for asking for lots of search completions but never using any of them :)