plugin finder, display additional search results

[playerpl]

Hi,

I'm writing to ask for guidance on how to properly design a Joomla 5.1 search plugin (finder).

I want the finder component, in addition to what it currently offers, to additionally perform a query to the endpoint I created (server.com/api/string-to-search), retrieve information from it and display as additional search results.

How to do it? I don't want to pass content for indexing just ready-made search results to be displayed based on the phrase the user provides.
How can i inject search results from another engine?

[SharkyKZ]

If you want something like that, you should use the old Search component where each plugin runs its own queries. There's no sensible way to do that using Smart Search. You can try MVC overrides, but that's pretty complex and not very reliable. You could also try layout overrides or a plugin that changes generated HTML output. Depending on presentation needed, you could also use a plugin that adds a JS script and loads results using AJAX.