searchgoo1

Usage

Overview

searchgoo is a commandline script to query the usenet database at groups.google.com, aka deja.com

Options

-H

go to groups.google.com home page

-a author

-b

download message bodies too

-nn

search the last nn days

-g group

limit the search to only these groups; a trailing wildcard is allowed and "deb" is short for linux.debian.*

-k

keep the hits file in /tmp

-m msg-id

Message-Id

-o

optional words (any of these)

-p words

include all of these words

-q phrase

phrase, as if quoted

-s subject

subject

-t nn

timeout in seconds, default 60

-u

unfiltered; skip Google's filter of like messages

-x words

exclude these words

-l language

cs  Czech     hu  Hungarian   no  Norwegian
da  Danish    is  Icelandic   pl  Polish
de  German    it  Italian     pt  Portuguese
el  Greek     iw  Hebrew      ro  Romanian
en  English   ja  Japanese    ru  Russian
es  Spanish   ko  Korean      sv  Swedish
et  Estonian  lt  Lithuanian  zh-CN Chinese(Simp.)
fi  Finnish   lv  Latvian     zh-TW Chinese(Trad.)
fr  French    nl  Dutch

Browsers

If you use Netscape as your browser, the temp files will be left in /tmp and you'll have delete them occasionally. These files are automatically deleted if you use a different browser.

Environment

SSBROWSER

If this variable is set in the environment (e.g. export SSBROWSER=lynx) it is used.

X11BROWSER

Else if DISPLAY is set then the X11BROWSER environment variable is checked for the preferred browser. If unset it defaults to lynx.

CONSOLEBROWSER

Else the CONSOLEBROWSER environment variable is checked for the preferred console browser. If unset it defaults to lynx.

Notes

- ^C attempts to show the hits to that point

Examples

searchgoo -H
searchgoo -p python -x monty -a tim -b
searchgoo -q i am a jelly doughnut -b