Re: nngoogle

[Ami Fischman <usenet@fischman.org>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I tried that, and if I query it for a group name, it gives me the
> thread-overview page.

The trick is to make it give you a "search result" set, instead of a group
view.  For example, search for 
"comp.lsi.cad alt.thisgroupreallydoesntexistihope" (without the quotes) in
the group field, and you'll get article listings.  Example query:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=&num=100&as_scoring=d&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=comp.lsi.cad+alt.doesntexistatallgroup&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&as_umsgid=&lr=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=21&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2002

> I've basically done most of nngoogle, and then I discover that the
> appoach I've taken doesn't give me the information I need.  Like,
> arggh, dude.
> 
> The only way to get something that can be used to generate the
> .overview file is do download all the articles, and that's not very
> nice.  I had hoped I would only have to download the thread
> overviews.  (The "left frame".)
> 
> Unless I've overlooked something.

Really?  What info are you missing?   Near as I can tell the previous query
gives you everything you need (date, authorname, subject, messageid).  Only
thing that could be viewed as missing is authoremail, but is that really
required?

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