1096944 - (iOS) Change REST API to return return search queries

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Description

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

For prototyping we would like to get a list of recent searches.

Probably by looking through recent history and parsing Google, Bing or Duck Duck Go searches to some simple structured format.

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

For a longer term solution, see this thread:
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/sync-dev/2014-November/001029.html

The thread mentions that Desktop may already be Syncing search history as part of the Form Data. Worth looking to see if you can access it?

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Stefan Arentz [:st3fan] from comment #0)

> Probably by looking through recent history and parsing Google, Bing or Duck
> Duck Go searches to some simple structured format.

We really don't want to parse real history if we can avoid it.

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Grab form history, look for name="search-history".

We might build something better, but I'd bet against it.