Make Kagi Safari's Default Search Engine

I don’t see Kagi listed as a choice for Safari’s default search engine at:

Safari → Settings → Search


Is there any way to make Safari use Kagi as its search engine?

Is there an app that can intervene and make this work, analogous to how the app Open in WebMail provides a way to add missing option for email clients?

Thank you for your help.

Kagi’s documentation has these instructions:


Is using Kagi’s extension to re-direct search requests a reasonable things to do?


UPDATE Wednesday, January 29, 2025 7:14 PM
Corrected link to Kagi instructions. (Hat tip to @aforkosh for pointing out that my original link did not work … and yes, I thought that I had tested it. :person_facepalming:t2:)

I found that this is the URL that works:

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Or just use Orion, Kagi’s browser based on Webkit as Safari is :)

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I use the extension to redirect to Kagi and it works mostly fine (very rarely it doesn’t “catch” the search and goes to Google but it usually does it the next time fine)

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I use it and it works fine. I’ve changed my default browser to Ecosia and configured kagi to intercept the searches.

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I took your advice and it works fine.

For those who are interested in exactly how the Kagi extension works, here’s a detailed explanation:

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/2/2.html

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