[GH-ISSUE #1214] Dark Mode broken? #725

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opened 2026-02-25 20:36:23 +03:00 by kerem · 4 comments

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Originally created by @itguy327 on GitHub (Jan 17, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/1214

Not sure exactly when it happened but now results are always with a white background on desktop even with System and Chrome set to Dark and the WHOOGLE_CONFIG_THEME=dark variable set

Thank you for your work.

Originally created by @itguy327 on GitHub (Jan 17, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/1214 Not sure exactly when it happened but now results are always with a white background on desktop even with System and Chrome set to Dark and the WHOOGLE_CONFIG_THEME=dark variable set Thank you for your work.

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@benbusby commented on GitHub (Jan 17, 2025):

Yeah, results are going to start looking a bit odd while #1211 is being investigated. Basically there's not a consistent way to ensure how results will look anymore since Whoogle now has to use different User Agents in order to fetch search results, and using different User Agents returns differently styled results from Google.

Once there's a more stable approach to fetching results, I'll look into ways to fix the styling of the results.

@benbusby commented on GitHub (Jan 17, 2025): Yeah, results are going to start looking a bit odd while #1211 is being investigated. Basically there's not a consistent way to ensure how results will look anymore since Whoogle now has to use different User Agents in order to fetch search results, and using different User Agents returns differently styled results from Google. Once there's a more stable approach to fetching results, I'll look into ways to fix the styling of the results.

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@itguy327 commented on GitHub (Jan 17, 2025):

Thank you. I'm sorry google is making life miserable for you.

Appreciate you

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Yeah, results are going to start looking a bit odd while #1211
https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/1211 is being
investigated. Basically there's not a consistent way to ensure how results
will look anymore since Whoogle now has to use different User Agents in
order to fetch search results, and using different User Agents returns
differently styled results from Google.

Once there's a more stable approach to fetching results, I'll look into
ways to fix the styling of the results.

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@Narkoleptika commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2025):

This appears to be the result of self.theme = os.getenv('WHOOGLE_CONFIG_THEME', 'system') being replaced with self.theme = kwargs.get('theme', '') in #1212. The theme value is no longer reading the WHOOGLE_CONFIG_THEME environment variable or defaulting to system AFAICT. Other environment variables may have been impacted as well. It's not clear to me if that was a mistake or a deliberate decision due to the unpredictable styling being returned by google so I apologize if I'm stating the obvious here. In any case, thanks for getting these UA changes going so quickly!

@Narkoleptika commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2025): This appears to be the result of `self.theme = os.getenv('WHOOGLE_CONFIG_THEME', 'system')` being replaced with `self.theme = kwargs.get('theme', '')` in #1212. The theme value is no longer reading the `WHOOGLE_CONFIG_THEME` environment variable or defaulting to `system` AFAICT. Other environment variables may have been impacted as well. It's not clear to me if that was a mistake or a deliberate decision due to the unpredictable styling being returned by google so I apologize if I'm stating the obvious here. In any case, thanks for getting these UA changes going so quickly!

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@benbusby commented on GitHub (Jan 19, 2025):

The changes to the env vars has been reverted, thanks for pointing that out. Feel free to re-open if you're still encountering issues though!

@benbusby commented on GitHub (Jan 19, 2025): The changes to the env vars has been reverted, thanks for pointing that out. Feel free to re-open if you're still encountering issues though!