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It's, like, too neat to search the Usenet for articles that match a string, but it, like, totally sucks, like, totally, to use one of those, like, Web browsers, and you, like, have to, rilly, like, look at the commercials, so, like, with Gnus you can do rad, rilly, searches without having to use a browser.
The nnweb
back end allows an easy interface to the mighty search
engine. You create an nnweb
group, enter a search pattern, and
then enter the group and read the articles like you would any normal
group. The G w command in the group buffer (see section 2.9 Foreign Groups) will do this in an easy-to-use fashion.
nnweb
groups don't really lend themselves to being solid
groups--they have a very fleeting idea of article numbers. In fact,
each time you enter an nnweb
group (not even changing the search
pattern), you are likely to get the articles ordered in a different
manner. Not even using duplicate suppression (see section 3.29 Duplicate Suppression) will help, since nnweb
doesn't even know the
Message-ID
of the articles before reading them using some search
engines (Google, for instance). The only possible way to keep track
of which articles you've read is by scoring on the Date
header--mark all articles posted before the last date you read the
group as read.
If the search engine changes its output substantially, nnweb
won't be able to parse it and will fail. One could hardly fault the Web
providers if they were to do this--their raison d'être is to
make money off of advertisements, not to provide services to the
community. Since nnweb
washes the ads off all the articles, one
might think that the providers might be somewhat miffed. We'll see.
You must have the url
and w3
package installed to be able
to use nnweb
.
Virtual server variables:
nnweb-type
google
, dejanews
, and gmane
. Note that
dejanews
is an alias to google
.
nnweb-search
nnweb-max-hits
nnweb-type-definition
nnweb
should do
with the various search engine types. The following elements must be
present:
article
map
search
address
id
Message-ID
.
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