Yuil is dead! 4hoursearch is now online.

You should have done a eponymous satire: puillara.com ?

FIRST!!!

Seriously, cool job. It is also super fast.

twat, you're not even first comment you fucking bell-end

"The requested URL /src/4hoursearch-src.zip was not found on this server."

:-)

-Russ

“The requested URL /src/4hoursearch-src.zip was not found on this server.”

<img src="http://www.javarants.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley"> </img>

-Russ

Ugh. Bad push, just saw it in the log, fixed.

Just wondering. What's up with the image next to the first returned result? The image next to the first search for my name is from some random other site and has no connection to the listing.

Just wondering. What’s up with the image next to the first returned result? The image next to the first search for my name is from some random other site and has no connection to the listing.

Sorry it didn't work well for you. The image is the #1 image search result for the same query. If you click on the image rather than the search result it will go through to the site that it was found on.

Took me a while to work out what looked wrong with the results page. No adverts! Thanks!

Dudes, you rock! Yahoo is innovating, keep it up! Wish you all the very best, guys.

http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=mémoires



Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 499, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.209/search.py", line 37, in get
result = search(query, count=10)
File "/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.209/yos/boss/ysearch.py", line 41, in search
url = SEARCH_API_URL % (vertical, version, quote_plus(command), start, count, lang, region, filter, dimensions) + params(more)
File "/base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 1213, in quote_plus
return quote(s, safe)
File "/base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 1205, in quote
res = map(safe_map.__getitem__, s)
KeyError: u'\xe9'

Yeah, I suck at python. If anyone knows a better call to use than 'quote_plus' that works with UNICODE, I'm all ears.

This is cool, nice job!
Can you have control on the ads shown or can you only display Yahoo Ads?

For IRIs to URIs in Python (like http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=mémoires) see:
http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/tr...

NICE SAM! definitely support you, wrote an entry on my blog to help support you as well.
http://blabtech.blogspot.com

Yeah, I suck at python. If anyone knows a better call to use than ‘quote_plus’ that works with UNICODE, I’m all ears.

http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=python+quot... ;)

The functions django.utils.http.urlquote() and django.utils.http.urlquote_plus() are versions of Python’s standard urllib.quote() and urllib.quote_plus() that work with non-ASCII characters. (The data is converted to UTF-8 prior to encoding.)

The functions django.utils.http.urlquote() and django.utils.http.urlquote_plus() are versions of Python’s standard urllib.quote() and urllib.quote_plus() that work with non-ASCII characters. (The data is converted to UTF-8 prior to encoding.)

That fails in the same way as it is a wrapper on quote_plus.

For IRIs to URIs in Python (like http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=mémoires) see:

http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/utils/encoding.py

This isn't included in Google App Engine -- it has an older version of Django -- but I ported it over and it works great! Please test out the unicode support now.

Congrats, getting it up so fast is pretty cool. The problem with any search engine front end built around Yahoo's API is that it's...well, built around Yahoo's API. No matter how good of a coder you are, fact is that the search results are still based on Yahoo's indexes, which just isn't as comprehensive as Google's. (Don't like Google btw, just saying). Or am I missing something?

http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=mp3+download

resulted an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 499, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.216/search.py", line 52, in get
template_values['image'] = image_response['resultset_images'][0]
KeyError: 'resultset_images'

It's now working fine (: what was causing the error btw?

http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=mp3+download
resulted an error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py”, line 499, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File “/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.216/search.py”, line 52, in get
template_values['image'] = image_response['resultset_images'][0]
KeyError: ‘resultset_images’

It’s now working fine (: what was causing the error btw?

http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=mp3+download

resulted an error:


Traceback (most recent call last):


File “/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py”, line 499, in __call__


handler.get(*groups)


File “/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.216/search.py”, line 52, in get


template_values['image'] = image_response['resultset_images'][0]


KeyError: ‘resultset_images’

An underlying BOSS web service regressed temporarily, it has been corrected.

Hey the pagination seems to not be working. It forgets the query string and doesn't have a page as a parameter.

Other than that, good work!

Hey the pagination seems to not be working. It forgets the query string and doesn’t have a page as a parameter.

Other than that, good work!

Hi Jim, I wasn't able to reproduce this. It may be that there aren't enough results -- I am not handling that case well. Can you give me an example query where it doesn't work for you?

Searched for ‘porn’, clicked on page 10, bam, it breaks

http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=porn&p=10

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py”, line 499, in __call__


handler.get(*groups)


File “/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.232/search.py”, line 40, in get


ysr = result['ysearchresponse']


TypeError: ‘NoneType’ object is unsubscriptable

My error checking is not "robust". That looks like I didn't get a response back from the urlfetch. Could have been Google App Engine or BOSS. I should check for that and put up the fail whale.

I'm looking to integrate search into my site and think that this may be a start.

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Hi sam,
I just tried yours and it works great. Can you help me to add a functional button similar to Google's "I'm feeling lucky". I'm kinda suck at python.
Thank you.

I tried it out, looks pretty good.

The Open Source Search is a great idea.

Results better than Cuil.

The image thing is better than Cuil's, but I still think it a rediculus idea.

Carry on the good job !

Hey sam -- very cool "4 hour" project! I wish I had your mad skills :)

I was playing around with it and tried searching for my morning jacket (http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=my+morning+...) but got an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 499, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.234/search.py", line 39, in get
resultset_glue = glue(q)
File "/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.234/yos/boss/ysearch.py", line 56, in glue
data = load(url)
File "/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.234/yos/boss/ysearch.py", line 64, in load
data = rest.download(url)
File "/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.234/yos/crawl/rest.py", line 18, in download
result = urlfetch.fetch(url)
File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/urlfetch.py", line 216, in fetch
raise DownloadError(str(e))
DownloadError: ApplicationError: 3

I need a break from some projects I'm working on using Boss and Appengine, and had a search engine idea. I think you've done half the work already for another random idea I had for a search engine. Going to enjoy playing with this i think, thanks!

Hey Sam

I built a small search and used some of your code from the 4hoursearch in it. Do you think its fine or i should rewrite everything from scratch. The url is:
http://itsfrosty.appspot.com/

Would have sent a personal email, but you don't have contact info published on the blog :(

regards
himanshu

I am facing this error. Please help me out


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\ext\webapp\__init__.py", line 499, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\4hoursearch\search.py", line 37, in get
result = search(query, count=10)
File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\4hoursearch\yos\boss\ysearch.py", line 44, in search
data = load(url)
File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\4hoursearch\yos\boss\ysearch.py", line 64, in load
data = rest.download(url)
File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\4hoursearch\yos\crawl\rest.py", line 18, in download
result = urlfetch.fetch(url)
File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\urlfetch.py", line 267, in fetch
raise DownloadError(str(e))
DownloadError: ApplicationError: 2 timed out

I have seen this error from time to time when Yahoo! BOSS takes too long to respond back to Google App Engine. Are you asking for a lot of results?

Sam

4hoursearch looks great. I have a search engine that uses a single PHP file to query Yahoo Boss. It works like a charm, except that it doesn't yet do image and news search. if anyone wants to download and use it or amend it so that it does do image and news search, you can find it at: http://www.subscribetomyblog.com/spotlight/yaho....

Very awesome indeed!

Where I can store my Yahho AppID? Where is the config file?