Re: [Emacspeak] google searches failing

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,

I believe this is due to google changes. I'm seeing numerous reports
that Google has removed the ability to search without Javascript
support. As Emacspeak relies on eww and shr to implement searches and as
neither support Javascript, we may need to look at other
alternatives. See this article for some more info

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719865

I think DuckDuck Go still support non-javascript searches and a few
people are reporting that you can get some success by getting the
browser to send an agent string like `Links (2.29; Linux
6.11.0-13-generic x86_64; GNU C 13.2; text)` or "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT
10.0; Win64; x64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0". There is
likely a way to set this with eww but I've not verified that yet.

Tim

"peter.julien.rayner" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Has anyone else had google searches stop working in the last few days?
> The sequence
> ctrl-e <ret> testing google search<ret>
> yields
> Summary: 0 Nodes Matching //\*\[\(\@id\="main"\)\] in document. 
>
> the same search returns results when run from chrome.
> This happened about the same time I was configuring rclone and getting
> a client id for rclone but that is probably coincidence. More likely
> google just changed format slightly so the regexp isn't working.
> Before I dig can someone else let me know if they can reproduce? This
> is with emacs 29.3 under ubuntu 24.04 and using emacspeak master from
> github.
> cheers
> Peter