Fails to parse these specific search results

[Nakilon]

I would love to replace mediawiki-butt with infoboxer but in this test it is unable to parse search results:

query = "created by Stack Exchange users"

require "mediawiki-butt"
butt = MediaWiki::Butt.new "https://esolangs.org/w/api.php"
result = butt.get_search_results query
result = butt.get_search_text_results query if result.empty?
p result
p "https:" + URI.escape(URI.escape(butt.get_article_path result.first), "?") unless result.empty?

["???", "List of ideas"]
"https://esolangs.org/wiki/%3F%3F%3F"

require "infoboxer"
p Infoboxer.wiki("https://esolangs.org/w/api.php").search(query, limit: 1).first

nil

(also here it's 2-3 times slower than butt, maybe making more requests, idk)

[zverok]

By default, Infoboxer's search looks only in titles (I am not sure it is sensible behavior actually, but that's how it is now). You can hack it around by adjusting the request:

Infoboxer.wiki("https://esolangs.org/w/api.php").search(query, limit: 1) { |req| req.what(:text) }
# => [#<Page(title: "???", url: "https://esolangs.org/wiki/%3F%3F%3F"): ??? is an esoteric programming ...>]

(req inside the block is MediaWiktory::Wikipedia::Actions::Query, and on search, this module is available for additional tweaking)

also here it's 2-3 times slower than butt, maybe making more requests

It fetches some meta-info about MediaWiki instance on wiki object instantiation, so if you'll do this:

wiki = Infoboxer.wiki("https://esolangs.org/w/api.php") # meta-info fetching

wiki.search(...) # reusing the object

...it'll probably help.

[Nakilon]

The order is weird though.

> wiki.search("nakilon", limit: 1){ |req| req.what :text }.first.title
=> "Velik"
> wiki.search("nakilon", limit: 2){ |req| req.what :text }.first.title
=> "RASEL"
> wiki.search("nakilon", limit: 3){ |req| req.what :text }.first.title
=> "RASEL"
> wiki.search("nakilon", limit: 2){ |req| req.what :text }.map &:title
=> ["RASEL", "Velik"]

P.S.: I already have the separate "meta-info fetching" line so there is probably something else that takes time.

[zverok]

The order is weird though.

That's what their API do :shrug:

• With limit 1
• With limit 2

[Nakilon]

Alright, thanks for the help. Now I fully switched to your gem: https://github.com/Nakilon/nakiircbot/commit/e35ce0783fbc27072f1c829cc2d80835a00c010f