Re: lynx and google.com
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:50:20PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:23:35AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> > Has anybody tried 'lynx google.com' lately?
> >
> > You get HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request. It only started happening about 2
> > weeks ago.
>
> 'links google.com' works. The problem may be with lynx.
Yeah, but lynx not supporting tables is sometimes useful to get a site
to serve up a different version of the site, if I'm going to dump it and
parse it. lynx worked up until last week. Do you think it's using
HTTP/1.0 and google stopped supporting it? Haven't bothered tracing it.
Incidentally, I use this script to get around google's text ads:
wget -O- -U 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Lynx 2.7.2)' \
"http://www.google.com/search?q=$*"; 2>/dev/null | \
sed -e 's/Froogle//g' -e 's/<img src=[^>]*>//g' \
-e 's/.*\(<div>.*\)/\1/' \
-e 's/href=\//href=http:\/\/google.com\//g' \
-e 's/\([^>]\)<br>/\1/g' > ~/search.html
/x/b/moz/cur/firefox -remote "openURL(/home/tom/search.html)"
I used to use 'lynx -dump' instead of wget and then I didn't need the
<div> sed clause, because google wouldn't serve up the text ads if you
didn't have tables.
Try my little script, keep a small terminal open beside Moz and use this
script for your google searches. It makes the results take up the whole
screen again and strips out the text ads!
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