Search shortcuts break when sites change URLs
Search shortcuts keep returning wrong or empty pages after the target sites change their URLs or retire services.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 4 April 2019 · last reported 11 September 2025
What's going wrong
The surfraw project, a command-line tool that opens web searches in a browser through many small site scripts, gets reports from users whose shortcuts stop working.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.