Comments on: Nonbelievers need not apply: Surfraw

By: Quick note: goosh.org « Motho ke motho ka botho

Quick note: goosh.org « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:32:15 +0000

[...] this is not really a substitute for surfraw, so much as an oddball way to communicate with [...]

By: Notes from all over « Motho ke motho ka botho

Notes from all over « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:07:14 +0000

[...] Winston jotted a note just today to underscore his satisfaction surfraw, when used in conjunction with the Duck Duck Go search engine, and to be honest I have to second [...]

By: ditlhake matshube

ditlhake matshube — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:36:29 +0000

benj1
I tryed to use ur code it is giving me ds error at

if len(option) == 0: parser.error(“please enter a search term”)

loading…
Usage: document.py [-vr] [--view] [--results][--help] [--version]

document.py: error: please enter a search term

i dont know if its what need to outputed because am new to python

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:33:45 +0000

More or less, yes. Of course, having more than 100 of those already set up is probably part of the convenience of surfraw.

By: shell.person

shell.person — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:31:00 +0000

And obviously you could replace “iceweasel” with “firefox” or links2, or whatever browser you like.

By: shell.person

shell.person — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:17:49 +0000

BTW, as usual, the so-called smart quotes in the above script would need to be replaced by normal quotes.

By: shell.person

shell.person — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:16:32 +0000

Ok, I don’t get it. Am I missing something, or is Surfraw the equivalent of a shell script like this:

#!/bin/bash
Search=”$*”
iceweasel ‘wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?search=’”$Search”‘&language=en&go=Go’

By: T. Winiarski

T. Winiarski — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:59:10 +0000

Just in case… Scroogle search page is down again – though it maybe for good this time. If You didn`t already, go & see a declaration on their homepage. I still hope it won`t be forever and they manage to come back in the game…

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:56:47 +0000

You’re right, and I’m not taking the chance any more. I’ve already rebuilt a month’s worth of screenshots that were either on omploader or elsewhere. Yesterday’s project was recovering the 40+ images for the Software page. Slowly but surely. …

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:50:28 +0000

I wouldn’t count on Omploader STAYING up, though, if the commenter in http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/here-we-go- again/#comment-43076 is right. Would’ve been helpful if tigrmesh had cited a source, but I guess time will tell.