pdrb / askstack

Search answers on Stack Overflow

askstack

Search answers on Stack Overflow. Can use Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo search engine.

Just pass some keywords to the script and it will uses a search engine to find the most relevant pages on Stack Overflow.

Then, it will get the first code snippet from the question page or the full answer text.

Simple example:

$ askstack python delete dict key
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Question: How to remove a key from a python dictionary?

my_dict.pop('key', None)


Answer from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11277432

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Question: Delete an item from a dictionary

del d[key]


Answer from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5844672

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Notes

• Works on Python 2.7 and Python 3.4+

Install

Install using pip:

pip install askstack

Usage

Usage: askstack keywords... [options]

search answers on stackoverflow

Options:
--version       show program's version number and exit
-h, --help      show this help message and exit
-a ANSWERS      number of answers to retrieve (default: 2)
-e ENGINE       search engine to use: 'google', 'bing', 'duckduckgo' or
                'fallback' - fallback will try google and fallback to bing
                and duckduckgo if a search fails (default: fallback)
-f, --fulltext  get the full answer text (default: disabled)
-s SLEEP        sleep time between requests (default: 0.5)
-t TIMEOUT      timeout in seconds to wait for reply (default: 5)

Examples

If you are feeling lucky, get only the first code snippet:

$ askstack linux gzip directory -a 1

Get full first answer:

$ askstack linux gzip directory -a 1 -f

Try to get three answers using only DuckDuckGo as the search engine:

$ askstack linux gzip directory -a 3 -e duckduckgo