Redirect from the search results page to a band/album/etc. page.
A browser extension that allows you to hop over the metal-archives.com search page.
If you're anything like the average person, you're on MA several times a day and use the search functionality extensively, whether through the main page, or with a browser search shortcut. Many bands (albums, etc.) have the same name, of course, and often one just wants to go see the page of the most popular band with the given name. This script allows that to happen.
(Background: I first remember wishing for something like this script about seven years ago.)
The URL parameters are parsed and used to look up values in a dictionary. The user is then redirected to the stored URL.
Simply edit the return value of redirects(). Watch out for commas, quoting,
etc. Note that the values are case sensitive.
If the script has stopped working after you've changed some values, but you don't see any error messages in the JS console, paste the script into said console. You'll then be informed of syntax errors. If all else fails, feel free to send me a message, and I'll take a look at it.
This script is fairly trivial, and I don't foresee there being any updates. If that were to happen, though, any customizations you've made will be lost. Therefore I recommend turning off automatic updates. If you need to pull down an update, be sure to save your customizations first. (Yes, a solution could be made to store the redirect values, check versioning information, and prompt/inform the user about potential conflicts, but I don't want to add that functionality.)
Simply append a % to the search string. (Many other non-alphabetic characters
will work as well.) Type the following into the search field (or using a browser
search shortcut):
Death%
MA will disregard the % and you (presumably) won't have defined a redirect
with the key Death%, so you'll see the normal search results page.
Alternatively, you could have all your redirects use proper capitalization and use lowercase characters for searching.
