New changes to google search now include ads prefixed with the keyword
"sponsored". This update should remove these from appearing in search
results.
Fixes#871
Heroku is no longer free, readme updated to reflect this change.
Removed whoogle.lunar.icu instance.
Co-authored-by: files18 <107342491+files18@users.noreply.github.com>
Changed the implementation to work if the bang is at anyplace in the query.
Added a check to not spend time looking for an operator if a "!" is not present
in the query.
No longer allowed to have the bang at the "!" char at the end, since this may
cause some conflicts like the issue cited before, where the ! is after a word
in the query, which is natural in most languages.
Adds support for encoding (and optionally encrypting) user config values as
a single string that can be passed to any endpoint with the "preferences" url
param.
Co-authored-by: Ben Busby <contact@benbusby.com>
Sessions are no longer validated using the "/session/..." route. This
created a lot of problems due to buggy/unexpected behavior coming from
the Flask-Session dependency, which is (more or less) no longer
maintained.
Sessions are also no longer strictly server-side-only. The majority of
information that was being stored in user sessions was aesthetic only,
aside from the session specific key used to encrypt URLs. This key is
still unique per user, but is not (or shouldn't be) in anyone's threat
model to keep absolutely 100% private from everyone. Especially paranoid
users of Whoogle can easily modify the code to use a randomly generated
encryption key that is reset on session invalidation (and set
invalidation time to a short enough period for their liking).
Ultimately, this should result in much more stable sessions per client.
There shouldn't be decryption issues with element URLs or queries
during result page navigation.
The Tor service logs often confuse Whoogle users, since they're a lot
more verbose than anything Whoogle ever reports. The bulk of these logs
use "notice" level logging and are not helpful for the average user, so
everything between debug and notice is now directed to /dev/null.
Fixes#825
Adds a new advanced search icon alongside the result tabs for switching
to a different country from the result page.
This will obviously get populated with other methods of filtering
results, but for now it's just the country selector.
Session validation includes a method for determining the proxy host url,
but previously did not include the path for the initial request. This
caused a situation where users with a new session would not be able to
complete their first search, since the session validation follow-through
url did not include the actual path for their search query.
The method now includes a flag for only extracting the root url, which
is needed for creating full urls in the content filter.
Fixes#708
This adds a new "temporary" config section of the results view, where a
user can now change the country that their results come from without
changing their default config settings.
Closes#322
PEP-8 enforcements in the project are more of an annoyance than
anything. It doesn't really seem to add much value, and adds a lot of
friction to pull requests from developers who aren't familiar with the
style guide. Stylistic enforcements should just be done during PRs if
necessary (or a different style guide should be enforced).
Queries performed in a different language than what is configured
contain a result div that prompts the user to configure their language
preferences using google's preferences page.
Since we want all language configuration to occur on Whoogle only, we
can safely remove this result div.
Fixes#444Fixes#386
Farside can now redirect quora links to querte instances and imdb links
to libremdb instances. This updates Whoogle to perform link replacements
for both services when site alts are configured.
Allows skipping the Tor startup script if WHOOGLE_TOR_SERVICE is set to
0. This is separate from WHOOGLE_CONFIG_TOR, which only allows
enabling/disabling user configuration of passing searches through
Tor.
Closes#631
For users running local instances of service alternatives such as
invidious, the alt replacement procedure broke if the scheme of the
original service (almost always https) didn't match the scheme of their
defined local service (likely http).
This adds a small check to see if the alt has a defined scheme, and if
so, removes the original scheme for that result.
Fixes#806
Wikipedia -> Wikiless redirects always result in an english language
result, even if the Wikipedia result would've been in a non-english
language. This is due to Wikipedia using language specific subdomains
(i.e. de.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, etc) whereas Wikiless uses a
"lang" url param.
This has been fixed by inspecting the subdomain of the wikipedia link
and passing that value to Wikiless as the lang param if it's determined
to be a language specific value (currently just looking for a 2-char
subdomain).
See #805
Ben Busby