Website features

These features are about using the website generated by rustdoc.

Custom search engines

If you find yourself often referencing online Rust docs you might enjoy using a custom search engine. This allows you to use the navigation bar directly to search a rustdoc website. Most browsers support this feature by letting you define a URL template containing %s which will be substituted for the search term. As an example, for the standard library you could use this template:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/?search=%s

Note that this will take you to a results page listing all matches. If you want to navigate to the first result right away (which is often the best match) use the following instead:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/?search=%s&go_to_first=true

This URL adds the go_to_first=true query parameter which can be appended to any rustdoc search URL to automatically go to the first result.