I'm Feeling Lucky no longer auto-submitting

[twolfson]

It looks like Google has shut down support for ?btnI to automatically redirect to the first result.

Steps to reproduce:

• Open browser (tested in Firefox and Chrome)
• Navigate to http://mdn.io/window

Expected behavior:

• Browser opens: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window

Actual behavior:

• Browser opens: https://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=window%20site%3Adeveloper.mozilla.org

Screenshot:

[twolfson]

I tried a few different query variations back on Stack Overflow posts but they seem broken as well:

https://www.google.com/search?btnI=I&q=window%20site%3Adeveloper.mozilla.org

https://www.google.com/search?btnI=I&q=window%20site%3Adeveloper.mozilla.org&sourceid=navclient

[blakeembrey]

Looks like the "I'm feeling lucky" feature has been killed, some others found a similar issue https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/746JPOTQOWg;context-place=forum/websearch. Probably best to move to scraping and caching now instead.

[twolfson]

I'm not sure its been killed. The official response there says it should work as we expect when Instant Search is disabled:

If you have Instant Results turned off, the button will direct to Google Doodles. If you type in a search term, the button will lead you to the 1st result on the 1st page of that search term results.

It's plausible Google broke the feature and not realized it. I tried disabling Instant Search and clicking the I'm Feeling Lucky button and it does a normal search.

It might be best to sit on this for a month or jump to another service temporarily.

[twolfson]

It looks like everything is back to working :tada:

[lazd]

Hooray! I love when issues fix themselves!

On Oct 12, 2016, at 11:13 PM, Todd Wolfson notifications@github.com wrote:

Closed #14.

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