search engine for the archives?

[Igor Gueths]

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There might already be a database, not sure how the archives are 
organized. Hopefully Kirk will reply to this so we can possibly get 
something going.
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:45:14AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> Yeah that's a good idea I don't even know how to get to the archives.  Each html
> page could be titled with the subject of the mail message.  So then perl would
> just have to search the directory with the subjects of the e-mail  you're
> grepping The other way do do this is to create a small database but that might
> be more complex.
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> From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:06 AM
> Subject: search engine for the archives?
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> > Hi all. I've contemplated this time and time again, however I'm not sure
> > anyone has thought of it. Has anyone thought of working on a search
> > script that would accept a keyword as input, and then output a list of
> > messages containing that keyword/series of words? If this somehow hasn't
> > been thought of yet, I'm wondering if anyone is actually interested in
> > something like this. The reason I thought of doing this is bc I'm
> > watching the Speech Dispatcher thread, and I know I will want to refer
> > back to it once I get my laptop because I may be installing software
> > speech on it. Also, I will most likely forget where the thread is in the
> > archives, and I thought it would be nice if I could just search for it.
> > In terms of implementing such functionality, I'm thinking Perl is a good
> > option. And then depending on where the archive pages are actually
> > located/structure of the pages themselves, the script could then pass
> > the input along to grep. The grep output would be contained in an array,
> > which would then be parced and returned to the user in the form of a
> > result listing. The reason I say that it will be parced is because the
> > grep output is most likely going to be in the form of HTML pages, and
> > the script will need to strip out all the extranious HTML tags, and then
> > render the results in a new page. Anyone like/dislike this idea?
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