G w searching

G w searching

[Bob Newell]

Aloha,

I learned recently about 'G w' to use nnweb to do searches, in
particular of Google groups. So I tried it and it failed over and
over, telling me it couldn't find anything when I was using strings
that I knew were out there.

So I did some tracing and nnweb-google-search constructs a perfectly
correct URL for the query in question ... but ... the problem is that
it lands on the Google log-in page. That's Google's doing, of course,
but it makes 'G w' unusable. (I'm using the Gnus version associated
with the Emacs 25.3.1, which is 5.13.)

Is anyone using 'G w' successfully? What is the trick?

Mahalo,

-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

Sent via Linux Mint 17.

Re: G w searching

[Michael Heerdegen]

Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:

> Aloha,
>
> I learned recently about 'G w' to use nnweb to do searches, in
> particular of Google groups.

I also learned about it at the moment.  Started Gnus to try it and saw
your message.

> So I did some tracing and nnweb-google-search constructs a perfectly
> correct URL for the query in question ... but ... the problem is that
> it lands on the Google log-in page. That's Google's doing, of course,
> but it makes 'G w' unusable.

I see Gnus (`nnweb-google-search') constructing an url like

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=test&num=100&hq=&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sites=groups&filter=0

When I visit it in w3m or eww, Google says I need to enable Javascript.
I'm a bit happy it doesn't say I should login.


Michael.

Re: G w searching

[Michael Heerdegen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> When I visit it in w3m or eww, Google says I need to enable Javascript.

Forgot to mention that I see the matches when I do so in a browser that
has Js support.


Michael.

Re: G w searching

[Bob Newell]

Looks like, then, there could be two reasons for it not to work. (I
suspect you have a login cookie stored for w3m or eww.) And the
Javascript is a kind of show-stopper if we want to keep things within
Emacs.

Oh well. Dommage. Schade. Aloha `ino.

Thanks for the reply.