[GH-ISSUE #1088] [QUESTION] How does whoogle get quick answers from google? #662

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Originally created by @amogusussy on GitHub (Oct 23, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/1088

I help with maintaining the Extravi/araa-search repo, and someone's requested a quick answers feature. For example, if you searched 'who founded google', it'd return a list of the two founders of google. I want to try and implement a feature like this in the araa-search project.

How does whoogle do this?

Originally created by @amogusussy on GitHub (Oct 23, 2023). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/1088 I help with maintaining the Extravi/araa-search repo, and someone's requested a quick answers feature. For example, if you searched 'who founded google', it'd return a list of the two founders of google. I want to try and implement a feature like this in the araa-search project. How does whoogle do this?

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@benbusby commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2023):

Whoogle doesn't do anything special for this, it's just using Google's javascript-free search endpoint (https://www.google.com/search?gbv=1&q=<query>) to fetch results. When the results contain the quick answers feature, it's only because it's being returned in the response body from Google. You could use the same endpoint and scrape the first result to see if it's in that unique format.

Weirdly enough, I actually haven't been getting those "quick answer" results from Whoogle lately, so I'm guessing Google is changing something about their results for that endpoint now.

@benbusby commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2023): Whoogle doesn't do anything special for this, it's just using Google's javascript-free search endpoint (`https://www.google.com/search?gbv=1&q=<query>`) to fetch results. When the results contain the quick answers feature, it's only because it's being returned in the response body from Google. You could use the same endpoint and scrape the first result to see if it's in that unique format. Weirdly enough, I actually haven't been getting those "quick answer" results from Whoogle lately, so I'm guessing Google is changing something about their results for that endpoint now.