No search results

[LeonMusCoden]

Bug: On every couple searches, I'm not getting any search results:

I believe this is related to the Google removing support for javascript-free search. There are some more details in an issue on whoogle.

Btw: Amazing search engine! Love the UI.

Edit: Checked the code and Araa doesn't seem to use the javascript free version of google, which is enabled by gbv=1. My issue might be unrelated.

[TEMtheLEM]

Seems like Google is rejecting any search without JS, even with gbv=1.

That's at least trying to use it with NoScript on my browser.

EDIT: Tried using a few alternative google domains (.ca, .de), those have the same roadblock.

[Malix-Labs]

Unfortunately, this sign the death of Google search in Araa.

[Alifoss]

I've just came across this project since running into the same issues with another selfhosted alternative (whoogle).

In whoogle results can still be fetched from google without JS while using some specific user agents. For example Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.0; Windows NT 5.0) and Lynx/2.9.2 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/3.4.0.

I've tested with several other UA's aswell and seems if its from an old enough browser/platform, results can be fetched.

Probably this is still working because google doen't want to disable being a search engine for people who only have access to maybe older platforms. Question is how long ofcourse. Maybe there still is a substational amount of people using these.

On whoogle at least, this messes up the formating internally a little, as from the older ua, google probably servers the results in another format as on how whoogle originally was build.

I'm not sure how this is implemented in this project, but wondered if in araa, using one of the working ua's could bring back results in araa aswell, and if so, if it would affect the formatting in araa aswell.

I would love to try this project, since i like it very much on first glance, with torrent option etc.

[Extravi]

I will have to look into this soon

[beastbond]

Google always being google...

How about changing from Google's API, as there is no guarantee it will provide a long term service for anybody, they always do annoying shit like this and expect devs to comply, how abt sum else with a more friendly API

[amogusussy]

We could look into getting Google cse results. 4get has a script to scrape them: https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get/src/branch/master/scraper/google_cse.php

[Alifoss]

Not sure if this could help in any way, but i spinned up a searXNG instance, and still get results from google. Might be beneficial for this project aswell to look how they implemented it. From my limited understanding they use google search mobile site to fetch results. (benbusby/whoogle-search#1211 (comment))

[amogusussy]

This appears to work. I've just made #173 to implement it for araa.

[amogusussy]

@Extravi It now works on the main instance, so this should probably be closed.