From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72098 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus and googlegroups search Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:50:49 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <7y39sul8yu.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285674703 11015 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2010 11:51:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:51:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20471@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 28 13:51:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0Yik-0000LJ-3p for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:51:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P0Yi9-00026Z-4U; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P0Yi5-00026J-R8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:51:01 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P0Yi1-0002jZ-Mw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:51:01 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P0Yi1-0005Tn-00 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:50:57 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0Yi0-00006N-UV for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:50:57 +0200 Original-Received: from 62.113.137.5 ([62.113.137.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:50:56 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by 62.113.137.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:50:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.113.137.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:odiF3AWUceCAFJYqCQES8xcSJR4= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72098 Archived-At: >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > It works by web-scraping the results, I think, which is notoriously > unreliable. Doesn't Google have a search API? Rewriting nnweb to use > that instead would probably be a good idea. There is an AJAX REST API, but I only found documentation showing it from the JS viewpoint, not documenting the actual HTTP calls made, and their responses: http://code.google.com/intl/no-NO/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/ Maybe the mappings from the API to what's sent over the wire are obvious to JS-heads...?