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Title: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 11, 2009, 09:51 AM

NANY 2010 (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=273.0) Entry Information

Application Name	FarrWebMetaSearch
Version	0.9.1
Short Description	A FARR plugin used to query results from a web page and display them in list form.
Supported OSes	MS Windows
Web Page	http://farrwms.objecttechnology.com
Download Link	download (http://farrplugins.objecttechnology.com/farrwms/FarrWebMetaSearch.zip)
System Requirements	FindAndRunRobot (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html) (FARR)
Version History	0.9.1 - preliminary - use FARR's launching functionality to open URLs 0.9.0 - preliminary - first release
Author	phitsc (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=149485)
Credits	Thanks to hamradio (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=18911) for designing the plugin icon!
Screencast	http://donationcoder.com/nany2010/sc/webmetasearch/webmetasearch.html YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxKcvQ-uHjQ

Description
FarrWebMetaSearch is another generic web retrieval FARR plugin. Unlike ewemoas Webgrab (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12128.0) this plugin will show results in list mode. It is therefore targeted at web sites delivering list-like results.

Configuration and usage of the plugin will be as follows:

• searches are configured via a text configuration file, one for each 'search'. the file will specify search url and a regular expression to capture the result.
• search terms will be specified through the FARR input box

See implementation notes further down for further clarification.

Features
It just does what it says in the description.

Planned Features

• Fix icon copyright problem
• Fix launching problem
• Add proper help file
• Add a way for users to contribute / get searches
• Add logging/notification in case a configuration files is invalid
• Improve usage for news feeds
• Make original search string available as a variable
• Add many more searches :D
• Either make plugin asynchronious or implement some way to delay searching
• Add a description for each search to xml files and FARR searches list
• Implement filtering of searches
• Implement auto-completion of searches with Enter key (well, maybe)
• Add a way to specify search options (for web sites that support it)
• Make parsing of searches files more robust

Screencast

Screenshots

	FarrWebMetaSearch	Web Site
MSDN	[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]	[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
CDDB	[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]	[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

and a teaser screencast (http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stWUpVSkxIR19eRF9aWF9fXlFW/farrwebmetasearch2).

Implementation Notes

FarrWebMetaSearch reads all configuration files in its searches subdirectory when it's being loaded. When the plugin alias (currently wms) is entered, it will list all configured searches. To use a search one would then enter, e.g.:

wms msdn PathAppend

to find MSDN entries for the PathAppend API function.

Search files currently look like this (this is the cddb.conf file):

description=Microsoft Developer Network
searchUrl=http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-GB?query=
resultPattern=<a onmousedown=\".*\" href=\".*\">(.*)</a>\r\n<br/>\r\n<div class=\"ResultDescription\">(.*)</div>\r\n<div class=\"ResultUrl\">(.*)</div>
farrCaption=$1
farrGroup=$2
farrPath=$3

The regex sub-expressions can (should, actually) be used to form the results.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 11, 2009, 10:50 AM

Sounds wonderful!
Reminds me of this FARR plugin as well which deserves more attention and users:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16006.0

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 13, 2009, 03:45 PM

I've added some screen shots.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 13, 2009, 03:51 PM

whoa now this is looking good.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 13, 2009, 04:52 PM

updated implementation notes and added a todo list

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 13, 2009, 07:06 PM

it doesnt show results live as we type does it?

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 14, 2009, 02:42 AM

it doesnt show results live as we type does it?

-mouser (December 13, 2009, 07:06 PM)

It's meant to. But fetching something from the web obviously takes time. So currently the plugin is best suited to touch typists ;)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 14, 2009, 02:56 AM

NICE  :up: :up: :up:

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: CWuestefeld on December 15, 2009, 11:30 AM

Cool.

Request: put in a search file for IMDB.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 15, 2009, 03:27 PM

I've implemented the most important features now, especially asynchronious searching. I'm going to try and add some more searches now with focus on stability. I'm going to start with IMDB then.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 15, 2009, 04:06 PM

imdb live search is already provided in google plus addon by the way, not that it's a bad idea to add it.
now adding a live search of amazon and amazon books.. DROOOOOOL...... :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* i'd give my left arm for that.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: TucknDar on December 15, 2009, 04:14 PM

Really looking forward to this one, looks incredibly useful! :Thmbsup:
Amazon, play.com, eBay, yellow pages...

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 15, 2009, 05:02 PM

ebay and amazon, that's like the holy grail of instant search :)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 16, 2009, 02:49 AM

Amazon will be next on my list. I've ordered myself a Kindle for Christmas :D

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 17, 2009, 02:10 PM

I've changed the configuration files from xml to ini-style (see implementation notes in first post). Makes it much easier to handle the (already complex) regular expressions, as you don't have to encode < and > etc.. And then xml would be overkill for this anyway.

Capturing IMDB's output turned out to be a hard nut to crack. I'm afraid I can't offer anything satisfactory.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 17, 2009, 03:07 PM

live search of some of the dictionary website would be awesome as well, while we are building a wishlist :)

(since imdb is already supported as live search in google plus addon for farr it's not high on my priority list)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on December 17, 2009, 07:02 PM

Dictonary sites would have to be my most used  :D

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: TucknDar on December 18, 2009, 01:51 AM

Dictonary sites would have to be my most used  :D

-Perry Mowbray (December 17, 2009, 07:02 PM)

Actually, you missed an 'i' there, it's 'Dictionary'




 ;D

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on December 18, 2009, 01:59 AM

Dictonary sites would have to be my most used  :D

-Perry Mowbray (December 17, 2009, 07:02 PM)

Actually, you missed an 'i' there, it's 'Dictionary'

 ;D

-TucknDar (December 18, 2009, 01:51 AM)

Cool: you know I staired at it for ages but I couldn't see it!! I often don't have an eye for detal...

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: TucknDar on December 18, 2009, 02:02 AM

Dictonary sites would have to be my most used  :D

-Perry Mowbray (December 17, 2009, 07:02 PM)

Actually, you missed an 'i' there, it's 'Dictionary'

 ;D

-TucknDar (December 18, 2009, 01:51 AM)

Cool: you know I staired at it for ages but I couldn't see it!! I often don't have an eye for detal...

-Perry Mowbray (December 18, 2009, 01:59 AM)

:P ;)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: cranioscopical on December 18, 2009, 10:35 AM

I staired at it for ages but I couldn't see it!!

-Perry Mowbray (December 18, 2009, 01:59 AM)

Tread softly or someone will try to take a riser out of you  :o

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 21, 2009, 02:14 PM

I've recorded a short teaser screen cast (http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stWUpVSkxIR19eRF9aWF9fXlFW/farrwebmetasearch2).

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: TucknDar on December 21, 2009, 02:26 PM

I've recorded a short teaser screen cast (http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stWUpVSkxIR19eRF9aWF9fXlFW/farrwebmetasearch2).

-phitsc (December 21, 2009, 02:14 PM)

:greenclp:

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 21, 2009, 02:46 PM

nice!  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 23, 2009, 08:19 AM

just realised FarrWebMetaSearch could be (mis)used to read news feeds. because they are xml they are actually simpler to split up with regular expressions than 'normal' web pages.

here's an example:


description=Tages Anzeiger Front
searchUrl=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/rss.html?
resultPattern=<item>\s*<id>\d*</id>\s*<title>(.*)</title>\s*<description><!\[CDATA\[(.*)\]\]></description>\s*<category>.*</category>\s*<link>(.*)</link>\s*<guid.*</guid>\s*<pubDate>(.*)</pubDate>\s*</item>
farrCaption=$1 ($4)
farrGroup=$2
farrPath=$3


will give you this:

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Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 23, 2009, 11:14 AM

drool... :-* :-*

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on December 23, 2009, 04:30 PM

I've recorded a short teaser screen cast (http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stWUpVSkxIR19eRF9aWF9fXlFW/farrwebmetasearch2).

-phitsc (December 21, 2009, 02:14 PM)

 :-*

This link would be good in your first post: it's great!!

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 24, 2009, 03:02 AM

I've recorded a short teaser screen cast (http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stWUpVSkxIR19eRF9aWF9fXlFW/farrwebmetasearch2).

-phitsc (December 21, 2009, 02:14 PM)

 :-*

This link would be good in your first post: it's great!!

-Perry Mowbray (December 23, 2009, 04:30 PM)

Done. Thanks for the suggestion!

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 24, 2009, 03:10 AM

I've implemented the possibility to specify search options. Adding either one of +, / or - right after the search name (and before the search term) will list the available options:

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Using it will give you this:

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Options are specified like so:


description=Amazon
searchUrl=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=
resultPattern=<div class="productImage"><a href=".*">\s*<img[\w\s="\('\)\{\};]*src="(.*)"[\w\s="/]*>\s*</a></div>\s*<div class="productData">\s*<div class="productTitle"><a href="(.*)">(.*)</a>\s*(?:[<\w\s=">]*)(?:[\w\s]*)(?:by\s|\s~\s)(?:<a href=".*">)?([\w\s,]*)(?:</a>)?</span><span class="binding">\s*\((?:<span class="format">.*</span>)?(.*)\)</span></div>(?:\s*<div class="newPrice"><a href=".*">Buy new</a>:&nbsp;(?:<strike>\$[\d\.]*</strike>\s*)?<span>\$([\d\.]*)</span></div>)?
farrCaption=$3
farrGroup=$4 ($5)  Prize: $$6
farrPath=$2

[books]
searchUrl=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=

[kindlebooks]
searchUrl=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=node%3D154606011&field-keywords=
resultPattern=<div class="productImage"><a href=".*">\s*<img[\w\s="\('\)\{\};]*src="(.*)"[\w\s="/]*>\s*</a></div>\s*<div class="productData">\s*<div class="productTitle"><a href="(.*)">(.*)</a>\s*(?:[<\w\s=">]*)(?:[\w\s]*)(?:by\s|\s~\s)(?:<a href=".*">)?([\w\s,]*)(?:</a>)?</span><span class="binding">\s*\(<span class="format">(.*)</span>(.*)\)</span> - <span class="format">.*</span></div>(?:\s*<div class="newPrice"><a href=".*">Buy</a>:&nbsp;(?:<strike>\$[\d\.]*</strike>\s*)?<span>\$([\d\.]*)</span></div>)?
farrGroup=$4 ($5 - $6)  Prize: $$7

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on December 24, 2009, 04:23 AM

 >:( I can't stand this any longer: I want to play!!!!!   :P

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 29, 2009, 03:36 PM

I've uploaded a preliminary release for anyone interested to try out. The download link is in the first post. Just download and unzip into the FARR plugins directory, then restart FARR (or goreload). The alias is wms.

A few things to note:

• I've concentrated on the plugin functionality, so the searches themselves are not very sophisticated and numerous yet. For one thing, it would most certainly be possible to extract more relevant information. But more importantly, they probably won't give you the exact same results as the search on the actual web site would.
• Most search icons are from google image search, so I'm most certainly not allowed to distribute them with the plugin. Don't know what to do about these yet.
• There's no documentation about how to configure the searches yet. If you want to try configuring your own search (which I urge everyone to do :Thmbsup:), just check out the ones included. They are in the searches subdirectory.
  
• Each time you modify a search configuration file, you need to reload the plugin (goreload)
• There's no proper logging / debugging capability yet. If your search doesn't show after 'goreload', run DebugView (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx) while you're reloading the plugin. The regular expressions are checked for validity when the plugin is being loaded and invalid searches are (currently silently) discarded.
• I've found this site (http://www.regextester.com/) quite useful for coming up with regular expressions. If someone knows something better please let me know.
• The searches included are:
  
  • Amazon US (this search shows how to configure search options)
  • Amazon DE (because that's where I usually shop. Well, used to, before I bought a Kindle ;))
  • CDDB
  • C++ Reference
  • IMDB (proofed difficult to split up using regular expressions)
  • MSDN (which is why I actually wanted to code the plugin :))
  • Tages Anzeiger Front Seite (which shows how use the plugin to show a news feed)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on December 29, 2009, 04:47 PM

I've uploaded a preliminary release for anyone interested to try out.

-phitsc (December 29, 2009, 03:36 PM)

Cool  :-* But now I have to wait till I get home from work to play :mad:

Do you have a RedMine project for this so that people can upload new searches?  ;)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: ewemoa on December 29, 2009, 05:43 PM

I've given it a try -- looks pretty nice so far  :Thmbsup:

One thing that doesn't seem to work for me is getting the search to launch.  I have FARR customized so that there's a setting for "Overide Default Internet Browser with Custom Application" under "Program Options" -> "Settings" -> "External Tools" -> "Custom File and Browser Tools".

What happens after I press the Enter key is that I get a dialog box with:

• the title being a URL,
• a circular red icon with a white 'x',
• one line of text that appears to be the same URL as that in the title (e.g. for an Amazon search this might be a URL that takes me to a page for a book I presume), and
• a message that translates as something like "Application Not Found"

Looks something like the image of the dialog I see at:

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-for-application-not-found-error-when-opening-an-url/

Does this sort of set up work for anyone else?

Regarding regular expressions, I found this thread (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=577.0) to be useful at various points.

BTW, have you considered using XPath expressions?

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 30, 2009, 07:11 AM

working well.. very cool!

the msdn ones dont trigger a search for me.. i think you may have to add http:// to the urls.

amazon searches results seem a bit iffy.. here's my search for neural control, which should yield quite a few results:
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Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 30, 2009, 07:21 AM

working well.. very cool!

the msdn ones dont trigger a search for me.. i think you may have to add http:// to the urls.

-mouser (December 30, 2009, 07:11 AM)

I intentionally don't add the http:// to the urls (actually, I removed it :D), because otherwise FARR will not show the 'group' field (which I'm using to display additional information), but the url instead. Then, when an item is launched I add it again before launching. You're right though, MSDN doesn't work for me any more either. What I'll do now is change the launch code to use FARR's launch command instead of calling ShellExecuteEx myself. Will that use FARR's internal launch 'logic' (like external tools ewemoa is using) and the different launch methods FARR supports?

Thanks guys for checking it out!  :)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 30, 2009, 07:24 AM

yeah you can just ask farr to launch the url and it should do fine.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on December 30, 2009, 08:33 AM

This is seriously good fun...

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Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 30, 2009, 08:47 AM

the msdn ones dont trigger a search for me.. i think you may have to add http:// to the urls.

-mouser (December 30, 2009, 07:11 AM)

Might this be a FARR Windows 7 specific problem? MSDN launches fine for me when I run FARR on Windows XP. Also, when debugging on Windows 7, the plugin's EFuncName_Allow_ProcessTrigger never seems to get called. No idea why amazon launches though.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 30, 2009, 02:00 PM

ewemoa, are you running Windows XP?

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on December 30, 2009, 02:48 PM

No idea why amazon launches though.

if there is a www. at front, that might be why.

as for why its not calling allowprocesstrigger maybe you aren't telling it that you want to be called for that? there is a place in dll where you tell farr what things you want to be notified about?

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on December 30, 2009, 05:50 PM

Is there a way to retrieve the original search string and use it in the Path?

For example, in the following I'm grabbing the Quick Definitions from OneLook, but the path should be to the original search path, ie

[Select]

http://www.onelook.com/?w=

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That is, double clicking on any of those results should open http://www.onelook.com/?w=mug

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: ewemoa on December 30, 2009, 09:52 PM

ewemoa, are you running Windows XP?

-phitsc (December 30, 2009, 02:00 PM)

Indeed I am.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: ewemoa on December 30, 2009, 11:49 PM

I upgraded to 0.9.1 and am no longer experiencing the problem mentioned earlier :)

Thanks!

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 31, 2009, 05:22 AM

I upgraded to 0.9.1 and am no longer experiencing the problem mentioned earlier :)

Thanks!

-ewemoa (December 30, 2009, 11:49 PM)

Ok, thanks for letting me know!

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 31, 2009, 05:22 AM

BTW, have you considered using XPath expressions?

-ewemoa (December 29, 2009, 05:43 PM)

No, I haven't. Sounds like a very good idea though.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 31, 2009, 07:22 AM

I'm afraid I have no time to look into the launching problem before the year ends. So 0.9.1 is my final NANY release.

The first post contains a list of stuff I'm going to add next year :)

Thanks guys for checking the plugin out and giving me feedback. And many thanks to Perry for organising the event!

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2009, 07:32 AM

I'm afraid I have no time to look into the launching problem before the year ends. So 0.9.1 is my final NANY release.

-phitsc (December 31, 2009, 07:22 AM)

What are you talking about: you've got another 21 hours before the whistle blows!!!  :D :D

Seriously: Thanks for this: it's a great plugin that's lots of fun!!

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on December 31, 2009, 07:36 AM

What are you talking about: you've got another 21 hours before the whistle blows!!!  :D :D

-Perry Mowbray (December 31, 2009, 07:32 AM)

I wish my wife would be of that opinion too ;)

I'll add a thread for the plugin on the FARR plugins board next year by the way.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: skwire on December 31, 2009, 11:03 PM

Very slick, phitsc.  Well done.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 05, 2010, 06:06 AM

OK: Here is my onelook dictionary search:
1. Unzip this file into the FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\FARRWebMetaSearch\searches directory: [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

2. Reload the plugins

3. Usage:

• Dictionary Search: wms onelook <word>
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• Dictionary Meanings: wms onelook +quick <word>
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• Reverse Dictionary: wms onelook +reverse <search pattern>
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• You can also set the word pattern to return, using a pattern string before a ":": eg wms onelook +reverse m*:cat
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  * = any character; ? = single character
  

Thanks for a great plugin!!

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on January 05, 2010, 06:19 AM

cool! going to try it now and report.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on January 05, 2010, 06:25 AM

works well! cool stuff.  :up: :up:

one question i have though is why we would ever use the non +quick version? it doesnt do live resutls without +quick or +reverse, so is it any different than the define alias?

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 05, 2010, 06:32 AM

non quick gets to the dictionary: basically the same as "define" but there could be more dictionaries.

Also the list is dynamic, the dictionary wont be there unless the word is used.

I'll raise you one question: what's the way to switch to small icons. Define does but this plugin does not?? I've got the appropriate tickbox ticked??

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on January 05, 2010, 06:42 AM

non quick gets to the dictionary: basically the same as "define" but there could be more dictionaries.

-Perry Mowbray (January 05, 2010, 06:32 AM)

And you get direct feedback if what you've typed actually exists (typos etc.).

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on January 05, 2010, 06:43 AM

Very cool! Thanks for the contribution. I'll add it in the next official release if you don't mind (which will come soon).

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: ewemoa on January 05, 2010, 06:46 AM

Nice Perry!

Seems to work fine here :)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on January 05, 2010, 06:47 AM

I'll raise you one question: what's the way to switch to small icons. Define does but this plugin does not?? I've got the appropriate tickbox ticked??

-Perry Mowbray (January 05, 2010, 06:32 AM)

I'm afraid that's a question I have to answer. As far as I know it's up to plugin to switch to small icon mode. At least that is what I do for my other plugins. I did not implement this for FarrWebMetaSearch yet. And I'd love to remove it from my other plugins as well! If only mouser would move this (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12096.0) up a bit on his FARR todo list  ;)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: mouser on January 05, 2010, 06:48 AM

what's the way to switch to small icons. Define does but this plugin does not?? I've got the appropriate tickbox ticked??

thats up to the plugin setting showallmode, which will make farr switch to small icons if need be to show more results.

EDIT: yes ok the other thing is i could add an easier way to switch to show all.. i will do that too.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 05, 2010, 07:20 AM

what's the way to switch to small icons. Define does but this plugin does not?? I've got the appropriate tickbox ticked??

thats up to the plugin setting showallmode, which will make farr switch to small icons if need be to show more results.

EDIT: yes ok the other thing is i could add an easier way to switch to show all.. i will do that too.

-mouser (January 05, 2010, 06:48 AM)

 :Thmbsup: That's made me happy  :)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 05, 2010, 07:24 AM

Very cool! Thanks for the contribution. I'll add it in the next official release if you don't mind (which will come soon).

-phitsc (January 05, 2010, 06:43 AM)

Fine by me: I love this plugin... and mishing the mash  :D

Oh, there's one thing I'd like to be able to do that I can't. For the +quick option the results are returned without a path as the url is not part of that part of the page. What I'd like to be able to do, at least what makes sense to me, is to add the path to the original search that produced the page. Could we get that added?

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 05, 2010, 07:57 AM

Oh, another thing: any chance of a substitution in the RegEx with the FARR Search term?

So, if I

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wms onelook mouse

I'd like to include "mouse" in the RegEx.

Ta

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 05, 2010, 08:18 AM

One more little thing...

the +switch must appear after the searchname, is it possible to allow it to appear anywhere in the input string (like FARR)?

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on January 06, 2010, 07:00 AM

Perry, I noticed in your screen shot here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=20951.msg189951#msg189951) that you managed to change the colour of some FARR output. It seems that <font color=red>$5</font> is doing the trick. It would be interesting to know where you learned that this is possible? I've actually been asking for this once (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=15418.0), but the responses I got didn't indicate that this was already implemented.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 06, 2010, 07:06 AM

 :-[ Actually I noticed it when my RegEx grabbed the definition and the example from onelook. They make their example Italic.

I thought colour would be nicer  ;)  The FARR window is HTML, isn't it??? Seems to act like it... I wonder if you could put other links in there as well?? (must try that to see if it works  ;) )

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on January 07, 2010, 12:25 PM

FarrWebMetaSearch as news reader, used to check unread donationcoder.com posts :D

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Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 07, 2010, 08:50 PM

Ah... your html is working!! I didn't try adding links... does it work if you add the links to the poster, thread, etc??

But my real question: what are you developing this in, ie what RegEx variant is used?

and a previous: any chance of a substitution in the RegEx with the FARR Search term? (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=20951.msg190820#msg190820)

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: lanux128 on January 07, 2010, 10:47 PM

i'm closet twitter junkie. can someone help me incorporate the twitter search into FarrWMS?

here's the search link: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=<keyword>

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on January 08, 2010, 02:57 AM

Ah... your html is working!! I didn't try adding links... does it work if you add the links to the poster, thread, etc??

-Perry Mowbray (January 07, 2010, 08:50 PM)

It does format them like links, but it's not possible to follow them.

But my real question: what are you developing this in, ie what RegEx variant is used?

-Perry Mowbray (January 07, 2010, 08:50 PM)

The plugin is implemented in C++ using Microsoft's TR1 extension, i.e. I'm using the TR1 regex functionality. The regex variant used is ECMAScript.

and a previous: any chance of a substitution in the RegEx with the FARR Search term? (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=20951.msg190820#msg190820)

-Perry Mowbray (January 07, 2010, 08:50 PM)

I have already implemented this. Will make a new release as soon as possible.

Title: Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
Post by: phitsc on January 08, 2010, 05:25 PM

Version 1.0.0 is up. I've added a topic on the FARR plugins board here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21340.0). Updates will follow there. I'll add a screen shot and link to the web cast tomorrow.

Title: Writeup of FarWebMetaSearch
Post by: adi_barb on December 13, 2010, 05:55 AM

Why is FarrWebMetaSearch famous?

FarrWebMetaSearch (http://download.famouswhy.com/farrwebmetasearch/) is famous because it is a Find and Run Robot (FARR) plug-in used to query results from a web page and display them in list form.

http://download.famouswhy.com/farrwebmetasearch/