My Plugins Not Working

DEVONagent Tips
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Since updating to Mountain Lion a number of my created Plugins simply don’t seem to be working effectively — this might just be chance.

For example, if I use my Guardian newspaper search I often get no results at all when a similar search on the site brings up a lot of stuff.

My agentQuery code seems to be right. Is there something esle that I might have done to render my searches useless?

2

Did you update only Mac OS X or DEVONagent Pro too? And did you test the plug-in (via Windows > Plug-ins & Scanners) or could you post them so that we could test this over here? Maybe the websites have changed lately and the plug-ins need some maintenance. Thanks in advance!

3

This one searched Birmingham City Council Website and worked fine for years:

www.birmingham.gov.uk

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> CrawlDelay 0.125 Description Searches on the website <search.birmingham.gov.uk/search?q=_Agent Query_>. EngineSite search.birmingham.gov.uk/search?q=_Agent Query_ Identifier search.birmingham.gov.uk/search?q=_AgentQuery_ Info Birmingham City Council Plugin LinksMatching *search.birmingham.gov.uk/search?q=_Agent Query_* Name Birmingham City Council Operators 59 Version 1.0
4

Here is another for the Guardian newspaper site.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Description Searches the web using <www.guardian.co.uk>. EngineUrl http://www.guardian.co.uk/search?q=_agentQuery_ Identifier http://www.guardian.co.uk/search?q=_agentQuery_ Info The Guardian Plugin Name The Guardian OffsetPerPage 1 Operators 167423 ParseLinks ResultsPerPage 10 Start 0 Version 1.0
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This plug-in is actually buggy, just replace it with a new one by choosing File > New Plug-In and entering the URL “www.birmingham.gov.uk” (without quotes).

6

The second plug-in seems to be working but is using too many links and therefore creating too much traffic. Here’s an optimized version:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Description</key>
	<string>Searches the web using &lt;www.guardian.co.uk&gt;.</string>
	<key>EngineUrl</key>
	<string>http://www.guardian.co.uk/search?q=_agentQuery_</string>
	<key>Identifier</key>
	<string>http://www.guardian.co.uk/search?q=_agentQuery_</string>
	<key>Info</key>
	<string>The Guardian Plugin</string>
	<key>LinksEnd</key>
	<string>&lt;div class="refinements"&gt;</string>
	<key>LinksNotMatching</key>
	<string>*www.guardian.co.uk/search?q=*</string>
	<key>LinksStart</key>
	<string>&lt;form id="searchform" method="GET"&gt;</string>
	<key>Name</key>
	<string>The Guardian</string>
	<key>Operators</key>
	<integer>167423</integer>
	<key>Version</key>
	<string>1.0</string>
</dict>
</plist>
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Thanks Chris — much appreciated — as good a service as ever!