[Remove chrome "other search engines"] #chrome

remove_chrome_other_search_engines.js

// 1. open chrome://settings/searchEngines
// 2. press Ctrl-Shift-J to open console
// 3. paste the following code
// note: you may have to run it multiple times to get rid of all of them

// If you have search engines you want to use add the text "(KEEP)" to their name
// and by name i mean the "Search engine" field when you add/edit one of the search engines
settings.SearchEnginesBrowserProxyImpl.prototype.getSearchEnginesList()
    .then(function (val) {
        
      val.others.sort(function (a, b) { return b.modelIndex - a.modelIndex; });

      let filterer = arr => {
        return arr.others.filter(engine => {
          return (Object.prototype.toString.call(engine.displayName) === "[object String]")
              && !engine.displayName.includes('(KEEP)');
        });
      };

      filterer(val).forEach(function (engine) {
        if ((Object.prototype.toString.call(engine.displayName) === "[object String]")
            && !engine.displayName.includes('(KEEP)')) {
          settings.SearchEnginesBrowserProxyImpl
              .prototype
              .removeSearchEngine(engine.modelIndex);
          console.log('removed:', engine.displayName);
        }
      });
    });

Thanks for this! It's so annoying that Google makes this so hard.

Just in case you are trying to use this with the (keep) mechanism, I think that the engine.modelIndex can get muddled if you do not refresh between runs of this script, possibly deleting engines you wish to keep.

UPDATE: if you reverse sort by modelIndex, this problem is obviated.

Add

val.others.sort(function (a, b) { return b.modelIndex - a.modelIndex; });

just after the .then.

Thanks for this! Saved me from an hour of work haha.

thanks <3

worked perfectly! I had to do it multiple times. Is there a way to block chrome form adding search engines automatically?

Thanks for this!