Re: need some help on lynx
Sandip writes:
> > > once in the text mode news, i type in the same query in the space
> > > provided.
> > >=20
> > > i wanted to know if i can automate the whole thing or at least the last
> > > typing a query part of it. may be i can store the query in a text file
> > > and be done. there is an 's' option in lynx but i did not understand it
> > > much.
> >=20
> > Do you mean simply visit the Text Google News Page?
>
> no. not just visit the page. i already have it bookmarked. automation is
> required more on entering the query. i type it everyday! sorry for
> ambiguity in my original post.
My apologies. You were clear with "the same query in the space
provided". When I first read it I thought you were speaking of USENET,
and when I understood you meant regular news I did not re-read that
part.
Regardless, though, you should be able to bookmark the search URL:
<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=india&btnG=Google+Search>
After typing in the query and hitting the submit button, you could
just "a" add it to your bookmarks. I just did it and it works.
Is that what you mean?
The trick of this has to do with how the web-page author implements
the query submission - via the POST method or via the GET method. If
it's via the GET method, it can be bookmarked because the query
parameters are passed to the web-application via the URL, such as the
"q=india" in the above example URL. If it's via the POST method,
similar name=value pairs are passed in the body of the *incoming*
message and not within the URL.
To make an automatic query for the POST method, you could use the perl
script POST (in libwww-perl)...
** OR **
I just looked at the man page lynx(1):
-post_data
properly formatted data for a post form are read in
from stdin and passed to the form. Input is termi
nated by a line that starts with '---'.
Perhaps sending the data in via -post_data would work, as in:
lynx -post_data q=india -- http://www.google.com/
Best regards,
Elizabeth
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