🔍 wiki-search

Add real search to any GitHub wiki or docs site — and jump straight to the matching section. No moving your docs, no tracking, no build step for readers.

Try the live demo →   (searches this project's own wiki)

Install the bookmarklet

The bookmarklet is a thin launcher: on any wiki page it opens a small wiki-search window. Pick a result and it sends your current tab to that section (use Back to return) — no tab spam. All the logic lives here on this page's origin, so nothing is injected into the wiki and nothing is tracked.

  1. Show your bookmarks bar if it's hidden: Ctrl+Shift+B (⌘+Shift+B on macOS).
  2. Drag this to your bookmarks bar:
    🔍 Wiki Search …or right-click it → Bookmark this link / Add to favorites. Clicking it here does nothing — it only works once it's a bookmark and you're on a wiki page.
  3. Use it: open any GitHub wiki page (e.g. github.com/owner/repo/wiki/…) and click the bookmark. Search, then click a result to jump to the section.
Can't drag? (keyboard, or copy-paste install)

Create a new bookmark and paste the code below into its URL / address field — not the browser's address bar, which strips the javascript: prefix. Name it anything (e.g. Wiki Search).

Browser support. Desktop drag works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. On mobile, bookmarklets are fiddly and on iOS run only in Safari — add any bookmark, then edit it and paste the code above into its URL.

How it works

Search runs against a small, self-describing JSON index built from your Markdown (the index carries its own URL template, so result links are built with no hardcoded host — that's what makes wiki-search reusable for any site). The bookmarklet only ever opens this app on its own origin, sidestepping the wiki page's content-security policy. Results carry Text Fragment directives so, where the browser allows it, the exact phrase is highlighted too.