[Surfraw-devel] How to use surfraw with curl

Thu Aug 11 21:13:21 UTC 2016

On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:47:36 -0700
Kyle Isom <kyle at imap.cc> wrote:

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This works for me with two exceptions.
BTW: sr 2.2.9-r1

1. PATH (in fact the entire env), is not considered by the sr program so
  I had to use an absolute path.
2. The equals sign HAD to be there.

It seems that sr is REALLY picky about it's arguments.

Thanks,
David

> Hello David,
> 
> I did some tests, and it looks like the args aren't being passed. I
> created a curl wrapper
> 
>     printf '#!/bin/sh\n\ncurl -vL "$@"' | tee $HOME/bin/vcurl
>     chmod +x $_
>     sr -browser vcurl -s duckduckgo trump
> 
> and I was able to get the actual HTML.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kyle
> 
> 
> On 16/08/09 at 11:21, David Niklas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I entered this (as a test):
> > % sr -browser="curl -L " -s duckduckgo trump
> > 
> > And got this:
> > <html>
> > <head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
> > <body bgcolor="white">
> > <center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
> > <hr><center>nginx</center>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> > 
> > Now, I expected to get results as an html page
> > to stdout.
> > What do I do?
> > I tried increasing curl verbosity curl -vLD -
> > to no avail.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > David
> > 