Add search box to diaries page

[jidanni]

On https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary add a box to search, for e.g.,

• diaries by a certain user
• diaries on a certain subject
• even: diaries containing a certain string.

[mvexel]

I just wrote about this on my diary! This would be a lovely feature to have.

[mvexel]

There was an interesting suggestion in the comments section of my diary entry. It seems that search engines are pretty capable to handle a diary-specific search given the right syntax. I am guessing most users coming across the User Diaries page do not know how to compose a search command like this. So I suggested (copying from the diary comment):

Perhaps there is a way to create a search box that parses whatever the user enters and redirects (new tab) to search engine results. So a user would enter, for example, openstreetcam and this would open a tab with https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aopenstreetmap.org%2Fuser+diary+%22openstreetcam%22.

As an added bonus, it would expose more users to a privacy-centered search engine.

Would that be a feasible implementation of this?

[mvexel]

Someone suggested documenting search strategies using existing external search engine syntax, so I took the User Diaries OSM wiki page (which was a redirect) and added some hopefully relevant content there.