Capturing search keywords when no request parameters is shown in the url

General questions
1

hello,
How can you capture keywords on applications where search is launched with javascript and the results are displayed in the current url (through ajax response I suppose). In the present case, the application is using a lunr.js library as indexing and searching library.

2

You can manually trigger a site search query: https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide#internal-search-tracking

3

Thanks for your answer. I had already seen it but what I understand (maybe I’m wrong) is that we can capture only predefined keywords but what about if you want to get all used keywords systematically ?

4

You have to track every site search on your page as it happens. Then, you can see all search queries in the Matomo reporting.

5

Sorry but that’s precisely what I don’t understand in the trackSiteSearch method.
According to the example :

_paq.push(['trackSiteSearch',
   // Search keyword searched for
   "Banana",
   // Search category selected in your search engine. If you do not need this, set to false
   "Organic Food",

I have to specify what specific keywords I want Matomo to check for.
What I would like to do is getting every used keyword knowing that they cannot be harvested from the url by the default mecanism.

6

Right, but in your CMS / Website, there must be another mechanism to retrieve this search keyword, even if it is a document.getElementById('#searchForm').value; - after retrieving that search phrase, you have to put it into the mentioned method to tell Matomo which keyword a visitor has been searching for.

7

Oh yes ! got it thanks