Re: Problems with `nnweb' mode

[Tim X]

Tassilo Horn <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Rodolfo,
>
>> I installed emacs-w3m and also the `url' package, but the message gnus
>> finds with the above procedure (`G w' etcetera) are all completely
>> blank.
>
> Here, too. Google has changed its format, and it's not documented
> anywhere. If you use groups.google.com's search in a browser you can see
> the new search-string, but there's no way to find out how to tell google
> to return the found article as plain-text, so that gnus can display it.
>
> Maybe one could work arround this by fetching the result's html page and
> stripping the html-tags, but that would be really hard work...
>
> It's likely that there's no API because google doesn't want that people
> use it that way. People searching for articles at google via their
> newsreaders cannot see the banners and ads...
>
> Nevertheless, I've sent a mail to google and asked if usage of
> groups.google.com in own applications is allowed, and if yes, where I
> can read how it works.
>
> Regards,
> Tassilo
> -- 
> A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five!
>
>
>

Although not a great solution, you could probably use xslt to
translate the html?

Tim

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