WebSearch 0.5

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Argolance · #1 Post by **Argolance** » Thu 13 Dec 2018, 15:59

Bonjour,
Everything is in the title and images...

0.5 version (20181227):
- Browser selector in Preferences (optionally displayed in the WebSearch bar)
- Check Internet connection using the option "no-check-certificate" (MochiMoppel)
- /root/Choices/URI/https link to defaultbrowser automatically created if not existing (MochiMoppel)
- Engines info files - en, fr - new formatting ("|" instead of "tabs" > fredx181)
- Engine scripts modified to allow selected browser to work instead of xdg-open
- Spanish translation (nilsonmorales - 0.4)
- French translation

0.4 version (20181219):
- WebSearch bar/icons size (mfb)
- Display WebSearch as desktop application (needs gtkdialog-desklet)
- Engines info files - en, fr - (English file created by musher0)
- Run WebSearch at startup
- Now check for Internet connection when clicking the "Find" button to avoid the warning message if WebSearch configured to be run at startup and connection not yet active
- Changed /root to $HOME (vovchik)
- French translation updated
- gtktc file renamed as gtkrc_ws to avoid overwritting of gtkrc 2Pc file (for ToOpPy users)

0.3 version (20181217):
- JWM options excluded from Preferences when JWM is not active
- Blended background or foreground JWM colors taken into account and selectable separately ( radky)
- http://google.com changed to http://duckduckgo.com ( musher0)
- French translation

0.2 version (20181215):
- Engines are stored in the application "engines" directory and have each their own configuration file. They can now be dynamically listed, managed and user can create its own configuration file if an engine is missing.
36 search engines available (dynamically):

- 500px
- Ask
- Bandcamp
- Bing
- CNN
- Cplusplus
- Crunchyroll
- Docker Hub
- Dribbble
- DuckDuckGo
- eBay
- Ecosia
- Facebook
- Gibiru
- Giphy
- Google
- Internet Archive
- Lilo
- Netflix
- NhacCuaTui
- Pinterest
- Quora
- Qwant
- Rotten Tomatoes
- Slideshare
- SoundCloud
- Stack Overflow
- Swisscows
- The Register
- Twitter
- Vimeo
- Wikipedia
- WolframAlpha
- Yahoo
- Yandex
- YouTube

0.1 version (20181212):
More than 20 search engines available (statically):

- Ask
- Bing
- DuckDuckGo
- eBay
- Ecosia
- Facebook
- Gibiru
- Giphy (Animated GIFs)
- Google
- Internet Archive (Digital library)
- Lilo
- Pinterest
- Quora
- Qwant
- Slideshare (Presentations)
- Swisscows
- Vimeo
- Wikipedia
- Yahoo
- Yandex
- YouTube

Cheers!

smokey01 · #2 Post by **smokey01** » Thu 13 Dec 2018, 23:17

@Argolance, very nice.

I tried it in Fatdog64 and it is missing the green arrow.

I substituted your line (about : 350)

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<pixmap><input file>/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/gtk-go-forward-ltr.png</input></pixmap>

with

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<pixmap stock-icon-size=\"3\"><input file stock=\"gtk-go-forward\"></input></pixmap>

so you don't need to include the arrow icon.

Originally I hadn't installed it, just ran the script so it couldn't find your added icon.

Thanks for this, very handy.

Argolance · #3 Post by **Argolance** » Fri 14 Dec 2018, 09:44

Bonjour,

Originally I hadn't installed it, just ran the script so it couldn't find your added icon.

I would have used the stock icon if I succeeded in giving it the right size. It was indeed to big: so, thanks for the trick!

Thanks for this, very handy.

The pleasure is all mine!

Cordialement.

fredx181 · #4 Post by **fredx181** » Fri 14 Dec 2018, 12:34

Thanks, works great !!

Fred

amigo · #5 Post by **amigo** » Fri 14 Dec 2018, 12:48

What about Wolfram?

Argolance · #6 Post by **Argolance** » Fri 14 Dec 2018, 13:54

amigo wrote:What about Wolfram?

1st step:
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```
#web search
function FIND[...]
```
Copy/past these lines (just after the lines related to Wikipedia):
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```
elif  [ "$ENGINE" = "WolframAlpha" ]; then
	SEARCHTXT=$(echo "$SEARCHTXT" | sed 's/^/+/;s/ /+/g')
	xdg-open https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i="$SEARCHTXT"
```
2nd step:
Edit /root/.websearch/websearch_engines and add WolframAlpha (case sensitive) to the list, just after Wikipedia (to respect the alphabetical order).

NOTE: please, if you wish some engines to be added to the script, feel free to tell it!

Thanks.

musher0 · #7 Post by **musher0** » Fri 14 Dec 2018, 16:40

Hi Argo.

Ça marche pas. / It doesn't work.

[~]>whereis websearch
websearch: /usr/bin/websearch /usr/local/websearch /usr/share/applications/websearch.desktop

[~]>websearch

(And the cursor stays there, blinking, forever and ever, amen.)
(Et le curseur reste là, à clignoter, dans les siècles des siècles, amen.)

Is there a remedy?

BFN.

fredx181 · #8 Post by **fredx181** » Fri 14 Dec 2018, 17:01

musher0 wrote: Ça marche pas. / It doesn't work.

Could be because you don't have "xdg-open" maybe, check with:

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which xdg-open

It's part of package xdg-ulils.

Fred

Argolance · #9 Post by **Argolance** » Fri 14 Dec 2018, 17:20

musher0 wrote:Ça marche pas. / It doesn't work.

Ça marche pô?

Ben mon colon, pour un "vieux de la vieille", tu ne donnes pas beaucoup de grain à moudre, hein!
Quel Puppy,? Que dit la console? Peut-être en effet te manque-t-il xdg-open mais ça m'étonnerait. De mon côté, j'ai testé sur Stretch 7.5, Tahr 6.0.5 et il semble que là en tout cas, tout est OK, mais...

musher0 · #10 Post by **musher0** » Fri 14 Dec 2018, 17:20

I have it:

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[~]>which xdg-open
/usr/bin/xdg-open

Edit, 2minutes later:
Actually, it's here:

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[/usr/local/bin]>lg xdg-open
-rwxr-xr-x 1 451 nov 29  2015 xdg-open*

With contents:

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#!/bin/bash
#this script created by Jemimah. see: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=63400&start=150
#110115 xdg-open used to be a symlink to defaulthandler.

case "$1" in
        '') exit
                ;;
        *://*) exec rox -U "$1"
                ;;
        *@*.*) exec rox -U "mailto:${1}"
                ;;
        *) exec rox "$1"
                ;;
        magnet:*) exec transmission "$1"
                ;;
esac

Argolance · #11 Post by **Argolance** » Fri 14 Dec 2018, 17:44

@musher0
Nos messages se sont croisés, sans doute n'as-tu pas vu ma réponse/question ci-dessus?

Argolance wrote:Quel Puppy? Que dit la console?

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# websearch
???????

et (par exemple):

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# xdg-open https://www.google.com/search?q=murga+linux+musher0

musher0 · #12 Post by **musher0** » Fri 14 Dec 2018, 22:34

Hello Argo.

The console says « rien », it just hangs there.
The Pup is xenialPup-706.

Will try your search about me!

Finding yourself being a long
process...

Edit, a minute later:
I didn't find anything!!! Becôz I have everything google blocked in my
hosts file.

Edit, a few hours later:
I found something, however (pls see attached pic)

, with J. Assange's
surfraw. Puppy version is here, on augras' ElkArte Puppy forum, « en bas »

Vu que Monsieur Assange et cie ont déja créé quelque chose, pourquoi
ne pas t'en servir comme base ? / Since Mr. Assange & Co have already
created something, why not use it as a base?

BFN / À+

Argolance · #13 Post by **Argolance** » Sat 15 Dec 2018, 13:54

Bonjour,

musher0 wrote:The console says « rien », it just hangs there.
The Pup is xenialPup-706.

I tested WebSearch on Slacko 6.3.0 and Xenialpup 7.5. I noticed that it works well on Xenialpup but doesn't on Slacko.
Running in console, I got:

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# websearch
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope"><env:Body xmlns:rox="http://rox.sourceforge.net/SOAP/ROX-Filer"><env:Fault xmlns:rpc="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-rpc" xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope"><faultcode>Failed</faultcode><faultstring>https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=+Murga+LINUX: no handler for https</faultstring></env:Fault></env:Body></env:Envelope>

This was solved while creating a link to /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser called "https" in /root/Choices/URI.
You probably encountered the same problem.

WebSearch 0.2 is available. Details in the first message of this topic.

musher0 · #14 Post by **musher0** » Sat 15 Dec 2018, 16:31

Hello, Argolance.

I tested your version 2, from console and by clicking on the
websearch.desktop file, and it still does not work on this Pup. If it's relying
on any jwm structure or element (as you sometimes do), my WM's of
choice at present are either pekwm or echinus. So that could be an
explanation.

I checked:
xenialPup-706 has a https symlink at ROX's URI directory
and
Jemimah's xdg-open script is so general and well done that it can pick
up everything.

Sorry, it's all the time I have for testing at present. Regular life is calling
this Saturday in the form of "shop for winter tires urgently"!

BFN.

radky · #15 Post by **radky** » Sat 15 Dec 2018, 17:30

Hi Argolance,

Thank you for WebSearch -- very nice!

There is one small problem for JWM themes in which the background or foreground color is defined by blended nomenclature.

For example, WebSearch does not currently parse ACTIVE_BG='#3F3F3F:#000000' in the Aurora theme below:

MENU_BG='#181920'
ACTIVE_BG='#3F3F3F:#000000'
FOREGROUND='#A5A5A5'
PAGER_BG='#353746'
FG_SELECTED='gray65'

One possible solution would be an additional cut command to select the first of the two blended colors (cut -d':' -f1).

---

WebSearch is also quite useful for desktop environments other than JWM. However, in such cases, the 'Sticky, Above and JWM colors' options in Preferences are no longer valid. Would it be helpful to test the current desktop environment and exclude those options in Preferences when JWM is not active?

Again, your contributions to the Puppy community are much appreciated.

fredx181 · #16 Post by **fredx181** » Sat 15 Dec 2018, 21:30

Argolance wrote:0.2 version (20181215):
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36 search engines available

36... Is that all ?

Very nice, thanks again !

Fred

Argolance · #17 Post by **Argolance** » Sat 15 Dec 2018, 23:03

Bonsoir,
@radky
Thank you very much for the report and the wise advice I will (try to) take into account in the next version.

@fredx181
Who can do more can do less! As it is now possible to remove unwanted engines from the list, and even delete them permanently, it seemed to me that it was a good choice!

Thanks.

Cordialement.

musher0 · #18 Post by **musher0** » Sun 16 Dec 2018, 00:00

Success !

Hello Argolance.

I got your websearch, v. 2, to run by changing google.com to
duckduckgo.com (at lines 15 & 16)

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#verify first Internet connection
wget --quiet --spider http://duckduckgo.com

I have blocked everything google in my hosts file, that's why your script
hung. I also tried with www.ask.com. But then I get the error message
"not connected, etc.", when in fact I am, connected.

But duckduckgo is quite fine by me as a starting point.

Since I am probably not the only one using the "block google" hosts file
(e.g. you'll see the name of forum member "tallboy" in that "block
google" thread, too), do you think it would be possible for you to check
the return from google.com and if nothing, have duckduckgo as a fallback
position?

Maybe play a bit with wget's exit codes?

TIA.

(Edited, about an hour later)
If I may suggest a couple of things:
To check if the Puppy is online:

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[ "`lsof -i | wc -l`" -gt "1" ] && echo "On line" || echo "Off line"

To check if google.com is blocked in the user's hosts file

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awk '$1 ~ /127.0.0.1/ && $2 ~ /google.com/ { print "google is blocked" }' /etc/hosts

or

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grep "google.com" /etc/hosts | grep -m 1 "127.0.0.1"

Just a couple of ideas.

BFN.

musher0 · #19 Post by **musher0** » Sun 16 Dec 2018, 07:17

Startpage.com also works.

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wget --quiet --spider "https://www.startpage.com"
echo $?
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Argolance · #20 Post by **Argolance** » Mon 17 Dec 2018, 13:57

Bonjour,

WebSearch 0.3 is available. Details in the first message of this topic.
Thanks to radky and musher0 for their suggestions.

Cordialement.

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