I posted a macro here two years ago for getting 100 Google finds on a page, Google having disabled this ability in its search settings. Since September 2025 it hasn't been possible to get 100 finds even by adding "&num=100" to the end of the URL, so my old macro doesn't work anymore. With the help of ChatGPT I've now worked out a new one that does work. It doesn't list YouTube, Instagram, or several other types of finds, but I generally don't want those kinds of finds and if I did I could simply not trigger the macro. It takes about 15 seconds to run, but this apparently can't be helped.
Updated Aug. 15: The macro now detects if it isn't being run from a Google search-results page or if “Allow JavaScript from Apple Events” isn't enabled, and displays instructions instead of failing with a JavaScript error.
Can you confirm this has been written for the Brave browser?
When I run it I get a JavaScript error. It turns out that I have to enable JavaScript for AppleScript ih Views->Developer->Allow JavaScript from Apple events.
I then see it opens the same page with an increasing 'start' and then fails with the error:
2026-08-15 22:08:18 Action 16395140 failed: Execute a JavaScript For Automation failed with script error: text-script: execution error: Error: TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'html.match') (-2700)
So maybe you can tell how to properly start this. Should I first do a regular search on Google?
Yes. I made it for Brave but I figured it would work with other browsers as well.
When I run it I get a JavaScript error. It turns out that I have to enable JavaScript for AppleScript ih Views->Developer->Allow JavaScript from Apple events.
Right. I had that set already when I made the macro.
I then see it opens the same page with an increasing 'start' and then fails with the error:
2026-08-15 22:08:18 Action 16395140 failed: Execute a JavaScript For Automation failed with script error: text-script: execution error: Error: TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'html.match') (-2700)
So maybe you can tell how to properly start this. Should I first do a regular search on Google?
Yes. The last sentence of the collapsed opening comment is "Run with a standard Google finds page open." I've made a few revisions to the original version, one of which will now stop the macro if not run from a Google finds page. Try this new version and see if it works for you.
For years, I have been trying to turn Google again into the decent search engine it once has been by using custom search queries, browser extensions and so on, trying to preserve functionality that was lost by "upgrades to my search experience". This proved futile over the time and so I switched to Kagi (kagi.com) years ago and don't look back.
Thanks for this recommendation, particularly as I'm always looking for an alternative to Google – of which, believe me, I am no fan. Nothing else has satisfied me either, however, and though I've opened a Kagi account and am checking it out, I doubt it will be an exception. I was dismayed, first of all, to see it has an option for fewer finds per page, but not for more finds per page. I discovered that it yields from 30 to 50 finds per page as a default, which is better than Google's present 10 but not the 100 that I had before and still want. Furthermore, and possibly worse, Kagi apparently only gives you two such pages, for a total of only about 60–100 results altogether. That kind of curation may be okay with some people, but it's not for me. I put up with Google's* only because I have to.
I haven't touched Google's products in literally decades (unless required for work). I've been using DuckDuckGo since almost the beginning, and it has an easily-set infinite scroll option (for search results as well as images). Sure, it's not preloaded, but they load faster than I get down to the next section, which is fine for me.
