unalog

Fyi, from now on posts about unalog will land on my work log. All three of you who might be checking this page, ever, please pop on over there. Feeds and stuff as you like.

Thanks! -dchud

unalog now supports a9.com’s OpenSearch and SRW. Previously it only supported SRU, but as pointed out by Ross recently, once you add SRU or SRW, the other is easy, and OpenSearch is even easier. It’s true! :)

unalog.com itself is now registered at a9.com, so if you like their search interface, pull up the unalog panel and you can search it there with the rest of the web. One nice thing about it is that you can even use unalog’s query syntax (e.g. “user:foo url:nytimes.com”) and although that might not work well with the other a9 search columns, it will work exactly as expected in the a9 column.

Additionally, every unalog search result displayed on the site itself (i.e. *not* via a9.com) will now have an RSS button with the words “subscribe to this search” nearby. The button redirects the user to an opensearch RSS feed for that exact same search. Additionally, an RSS autodiscovery link for that search is now embedded in the page header, so safari/firefox RSS UI notifiers pop up as expected.

The changes to do this were minor and the opensearch implementation itself lives in changeset 151 (with related bits in 152 and 153).

Added SRU query support, entry filtering, tag maintenance tools, and support for the rel=”tag” microformat. Switched to ElementTree for XML generation. Fixed numerous bugs, cleaned some stuff up.

Added docs for how to use SRU and how to get RSS feeds from private groups on the project wiki.

Upgraded this weblog. :P