Oh, BTW, this sort of thing works well with any sort of site that degrades gracefully/is not pure JS.

  $ alias crate='f(){ w3m -F "https://lib.rs/search?q=${1}"; unset -f f; }; f'
  $ crate rocket

(lib.rs is a crate index using rust as the server instead of javascript, and has advantage of working well with terminal browsers)