https://github.com/pdrb/askstack

Search answers on Stack Overflow
https://github.com/pdrb/askstack

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Search answers on Stack Overflow

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pdrb/askstack
• Owner: pdrb
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-12-22T01:36:38.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-10-21T23:54:44.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-08T07:42:19.100Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: answer, ask, search, stackoverflow
• Language: Python
• Size: 11.7 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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askstack

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Search answers on Stack Overflow. Can use Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo search

engine.

Just pass some keywords to the script and it will uses a search engine to find

the most relevant pages on Stack Overflow.

Then, it will get the first code snippet from the question page or the full

answer text.

Simple example::

    $ askstack python delete dict key

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Question: How to remove a key from a python dictionary?

    my_dict.pop('key', None)

    Answer from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11277432

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Question: Delete an item from a dictionary

    del d[key]

    Answer from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5844672

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Notes

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- Works on Python 2.7 and Python 3.4+

Install

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Install using pip::

    pip install askstack

Usage

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::

    Usage: askstack keywords... [options]

    search answers on stackoverflow

    Options:

    --version       show program's version number and exit

    -h, --help      show this help message and exit

    -a ANSWERS      number of answers to retrieve (default: 2)

    -e ENGINE       search engine to use: 'google', 'bing', 'duckduckgo' or

                    'fallback' - fallback will try google and fallback to bing

                    and duckduckgo if a search fails (default: fallback)

    -f, --fulltext  get the full answer text (default: disabled)

    -s SLEEP        sleep time between requests (default: 0.5)

    -t TIMEOUT      timeout in seconds to wait for reply (default: 5)

Examples

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If you are feeling lucky, get only the first code snippet::

    $ askstack linux gzip directory -a 1

Get full first answer::

    $ askstack linux gzip directory -a 1 -f

Try to get three answers using only DuckDuckGo as the search engine::

    $ askstack linux gzip directory -a 3 -e duckduckgo

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