292454 - [GOOGLE] A module to search Google

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Mozbot, enhancement)

Description

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I've written a BotModule to do google searches. Right now it's very simple -- it
just takes the command "google" and uses the Google API to do the query.

It has variables for: how many queries it will show you in the channel, the
maximum length of a single line, whether or not "safeSearch" is on, and how many
results it will return in a /msg, or at all.

It requires the CPAN Net::Google module, which in turn requires SOAP::Lite.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: Google.bm

Note that it requires a Google API Key to use it. The help describes how to get
a Google API Key.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Oh, and if anybody would like to play with it, it's running on a bot called
"cluebot" on irc.freenode.org.

Comment 3

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: v2

Here's a slightly updated version, where safeSearch actually works (to some
degree) and we don't print html-escaped characters.

Comment 4

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

Comment on attachment 191184 [details]
v2

This works for me, it has been running in a Bot I've been using since the first
version.

Comment 5

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Comment on attachment 191184 [details]
v2

Hey Hixie, can I check this in? It's basically documented entirely by its
"help" text, and I know it works. :-)

Comment 6

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

I'm sorry, I don't have time to review it at the moment... One day, one day...

Comment 7

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 191184 [details]
v2

Please use a consistent syntax for string quoting (preferably '', not q{}). Other than that it's ok. Sorry it took so long. I'd make more detailed review comments but I don't really have the bandwidth these days. :-(

Comment 8

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

  Thanks, Hixie. I changed it to q{} for both of them, since they both have internal quotes and it's easier that way.

RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/mozbot/BotModules/Google.bm,v
done
Checking in Google.bm;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/mozbot/BotModules/Google.bm,v  <--  Google.bm
initial revision: 1.1
done

Comment 9

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Verified added and fixed.