Searching AJAX sites

DEVONagent Automation
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I started putting together some plugins for searching source code sites (like the koders plugin) this evening, and ran into a stumbling block with these two sites:

http://www.krugle.com/
http://csourcesearch.net/search/

The first site is all AJAX: pressing the search button causes the Javascript method startSearch to be invoked. The second site uses a typical POST query to send the search terms, but the results are loaded in the background.

Any ideas on if/how it might be possible to search these?

–Eric

PS For coders out there, type “krugle, show me the world” in the krugle search bar – found that one in their Javascript source :slight_smile:

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I’m having the same problem as edf. I want to automate a search of support.novell.com. The initial search has a regular URL, but there doesn’t appear to be control of the results per page and the “Next 25” link calls a Javascript function which munges the URL. Can anyone help?

The link code looks like this:


<a class="body11" onclick="document.resultsForm.startDocument.value = '51';" href="javascript:document.resultsForm.submit()">next 50 ></a>

Adding &startDocument=101 to the end of the search URL has no effect, which makes sense, but is annoying all the same. I guess a more focused version of the question is “How do I call javascript from within DevonAgent plugins?”

Rob

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DEVONagent’s plugin don’t support JavaScript but that’s not necessary anyway. Your example is based on a HTTP post sent to support.novell.com/search.do:


<form name="resultsForm" action="search.do" method="post" style="margin:0px">

For more details, see both http://www.devon-technologies.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4614 and Help > DEVONagent Help > Reference Guide > Plugin Development.