Is there a way to access the search function directly from a script?

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Is there a way to access the search function directly from a script? #495

Closed Jcwscience closed 2 years ago

Jcwscience commented 2 years ago

I’m trying to use this in a program I’m working on, but I need a way to send the server a search phrase and receive the text of a few matching articles. Is this possible currently? If so how would I go about doing it?

mgautierfr commented 2 years ago

If you have a kiwix-serve working (assuming address 127.0.0.1) :

You can do a search using url http://127.0.0.1/search?content=<zimname>&pattern=<search_phrase>
You will have to parse the html output (no rest API for now, sorry)
Then you can access the content using the url http://127.0.0.1/<zimname>/<article_path> (the url is in the html output)

Or you can use kiwix-search/zimdump to do the search and dump the article content.