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BluishHumility · 17 January 2025 11:20

You can keep your Whoogle instance going for now with user agent spoofing. See the relevant comments in the GitHub issue starting here:

github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

Google no longer supports javascript-free search requests

opened 02:47AM - 16 Jan 25 UTC

buzzert

bug unfortunate

**Describe the bug** As of late, I'm starting to get empty search results when …searching for something. Screenshot: <img width="1203" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/23646c84-d1ff-4aaf-9e12-3524e0538c06" /> It actually appears the HTML returned from Whoogle contains a fragment of an error message from Google (I presume): ```html <html lang="en"><head><title>Google Search</title><style>body{background-color:#fff}</style></head><body><noscript><style>table,div,span,p{display:none}</style><meta content="0;url=/httpservice/retry/enablejs?sei=Z3KIZ57GL8_O0PEPgcvWoQc" http-equiv="refresh"/><div style="display:block">Please click <a href="/httpservice/retry/enablejs?sei=Z3KIZ57GL8_O0PEPgcvWoQc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> if you are not redirected within a few seconds.</div></noscript><div id="java-com-google-gws-common-impl-searchguard-jslayout__broken-text" style="display:none">If you're having trouble accessing Google Search, please<a href="search?q=gAAAAABniHJnrPn5yG4WhDYIxL5Nux6TBg-m4AlEgtELaocG8KstgxbYbOR-2WxjEyFneQzU7JJgOLi43_XxZmYgEDmm65Wjvw==&country=&tbs=" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here</a>, or send<a href="support.google.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">feedback</a>.</div></body></html> ``` **To Reproduce** Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Search for anything **Deployment Method** - [ ] Heroku (one-click deploy) - [x] Docker - [ ] `run` executable - [ ] pip/pipx - [ ] Other: [describe setup] **Version of Whoogle Search** - [ ] Latest build from [source] (i.e. GitHub, Docker Hub, pip, etc) - [x] Version [v0.9.1] - [ ] Not sure **Desktop (please complete the following information):** - OS: macOS - Browser: Safari (any) - Version n/a