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- #! /bin/sh
- ## Hit the major search engines. Hose the [large] output to a file!
- ## autoconverts multiple arguments into the right format for given servers --
- ## usually worda+wordb, with certain lame exceptions like dejanews.
- ## Extracting and post-sorting the URLs is highly recommended...
- ##
- ## Altavista currently handled by a separate script; may merge at some point.
- ##
- ## _H* original 950824, updated 951218 and 960209
-
- test "${1}" = "" && echo 'Needs argument[s] to search for!' && exit 1
- PLUSARG="`echo $* | sed 's/ /+/g'`"
- PIPEARG="`echo ${PLUSARG} | sed 's/+/|/g'`"
- IFILE=/tmp/.webq.$$
-
- # Don't have "nc"? Get "netcat" from avian.org and add it to your toolkit.
- doquery () {
- echo GET "$1" | nc -v -i 1 -w 30 "$2" "$3"
- }
-
- # changed since original: now supplying port numbers and separator lines...
-
- echo "=== Yahoo ==="
- doquery "/bin/search?p=${PLUSARG}&n=300&w=w&s=a" search.yahoo.com 80
-
- echo '' ; echo "=== Webcrawler ==="
- doquery "/cgi-bin/WebQuery?searchText=${PLUSARG}&maxHits=300" webcrawler.com 80
-
- # the infoseek lamers want "registration" before they do a real search, but...
- echo '' ; echo "=== Infoseek ==="
- echo " is broken."
- # doquery "WW/IS/Titles?qt=${PLUSARG}" www2.infoseek.com 80
- # ... which doesn't work cuz their lame server wants the extra newlines, WITH
- # CRLF pairs ferkrissake. Fuck 'em for now, they're hopelessly broken. If
- # you want to play, the basic idea and query formats follow.
- # echo "GET /WW/IS/Titles?qt=${PLUSARG}" > $IFILE
- # echo "" >> $IFILE
- # nc -v -w 30 guide-p.infoseek.com 80 < $IFILE
-
- # this is kinda flakey; might have to do twice??
- echo '' ; echo "=== Opentext ==="
- doquery "/omw/simplesearch?SearchFor=${PLUSARG}&mode=phrase" \
- search.opentext.com 80
-
- # looks like inktomi will only take hits=100, or defaults back to 30
- # we try to suppress all the stupid rating dots here, too
- echo '' ; echo "=== Inktomi ==="
- doquery "/query/?query=${PLUSARG}&hits=100" ink3.cs.berkeley.edu 1234 | \
- sed '/^<IMG ALT.*inktomi.*\.gif">$/d'
-
- #djnews lame shit limits hits to 120 and has nonstandard format
- echo '' ; echo "=== Dejanews ==="
- doquery "/cgi-bin/nph-dnquery?query=${PIPEARG}+maxhits=110+format=terse+defaultOp=AND" \
- smithers.dejanews.com 80
-
- # OLD lycos: used to work until they fucking BROKE it...
- # doquery "/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=${PLUSARG}&maxhits=300&terse=1" \
- # query5.lycos.cs.cmu.edu 80
- # NEW lycos: wants the User-agent field present in query or it returns nothing
- # 960206: webmaster@lycos duly bitched at
- # 960208: reply received; here's how we will now handle it:
- echo \
- "GET /cgi-bin/pursuit?query=${PLUSARG}&maxhits=300&terse=terse&matchmode=and&minscore=.5 HTTP/1.x" \
- > $IFILE
- echo "User-agent: *FUCK OFF*" >> $IFILE
- echo "Why: go ask todd@pointcom.com (Todd Whitney)" >> $IFILE
- echo '' >> $IFILE
- echo '' ; echo "=== Lycos ==="
- nc -v -i 1 -w 30 twelve.srv.lycos.com 80 < $IFILE
-
- rm -f $IFILE
- exit 0
-
- # CURRENTLY BROKEN [?]
- # infoseek
-
- # some args need to be redone to ensure whatever "and" mode applies
-