queries keep resulting in "Sorry, couldn't find any help with that topic" about howdoi

[gleitz]

Thanks for the bug report. I noticed Google changed the way they return search results. I believe I fixed the issue with this commit. You can update to the latest version with pip install howdoi --upgrade

Please let me know if that fixes your issue.

[Pewpewarrows]

I upgraded to 1.1.3 and am still seeing the problem.

[gleitz]

It may also be that Google has flagged your IP and requires a captcha. This
happens sometimes if you try to execute the same query again and again. If
you try switching to a different network does the error still occur?

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Marco Chomut [email protected]:

I upgraded to 1.1.3 and am still seeing the problem.

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[monfresh]

I had originally installed howdoi via homebrew, but this latest update doesn't seem to be available via homebrew. So I used pip install howdoi --upgrade and queries are working now. Thanks!

[rdxmb]

I have just installed version 1.1.9 via apt and face the same problem. Just tried to install via pip3 and it's the same. This is also the case on a remote server running with different IP.

[gleitz]

The apt version is definitely very old, but the pip3 version should be up to date. Would you mind trying my suggestion here -> #372 (comment) and posting the result in that thread?

[rdxmb]

done

[Agustin627]

hello I was trying with this "python3 -m howdoi format date bash --explain -C~" and it throws me the following error: usage: main.py [-h] [-p POS] [-n NUM] [-a] [-l] [-c] [-x] [-C] [-j] [-v] [-e [ENGINE]] [--save] [--view] [--remove] [--empty ]
[QUERY...]
main.py: error: argument -C/--clear-cache: ignored explicit argument '~'

[gleitz]

Looks like you need to remove the ~ at the end