Please find attached as a pet archive. I tested it with limited results. It's
~ 15 years old, you see, and I suspect that
1) the helpers that Julian Assange calls "elvis" need some updating.
As proof, please see the compilation test report. These "elvis" (it's a play
on the letters of the word "evil", not a tribute to the initial rock star!)
contain search engine strings which, as you will see from the compilation
report, are not always efficient in this day and age;
2) the way the mind of this fellow works is way out there compared to
mine !
Anybody interested in participating in these updates, please chime in
below. I'll try updating a few, but there are lots and lots of these "elvis".
If I understood his doc correctly (yep, the documentation was written by
the man himself!), the theory of it is that, by bypassing a lot of the
useless html "slag", one gains a lot of time and much greater precision in
Internet searches.
I think no one can prove his statement wrong, in view of the graphic
clutter, the ads, etc., on web pages, plus the bulkiness of Internet
browsers these days.
For best results, Julian Assange suggests teaming his script up with a CLI
browser such as links2.
In any case, IMO, this is a tremendous artefact of Internet history, and it
is worth having a copy in one's software collection.
(Source of the attached compiled version:
https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw
Help page:
https://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/. The bottom line says:
so it is still maintained.)Last modified: Mon Feb 5 06:26:15 NZDT 2018
BFN.