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I've run into a few bangs that no longer work. I tried reporting the broken bangs on Twitter and the DDG bug reporter, but I received no reply and they're still
by cpeterso 10y ago
I've run into a few bangs that no longer work. I tried reporting the broken bangs on Twitter and the DDG bug reporter, but I received no reply and they're still broken.
I'm surprised DDG doesn't have automated monitoring of every bang API they use. They should have daily or hourly health check queries to confirm valid HTTP responses or even expected search results.
- tagawa 10y agoHi. Do you have a list of the bangs that don't work for you? I can forward them to be looked into.
- cpeterso 10y agoThanks! * !d20srd (D&D reference search) and its alias !d20 are 404. There is also !srd, which searches the same site but actually works. These bangs should be merged. * !zillow (real estate search for an address) will show the neighborhood the address is in, but not the exact match. Search for the same, pre-populated address on the site shows the exact match. This is a problem with the way DDG is encoding of the search terms. * FIXED: !blekko still existed (and was broken) even though the service had been shut down after the company was acquired by IBM.
- tagawa 10y agoThanks for the details. I've reported the d20 ones - there was also !d&d that should go to the same site. For Zillow, it seems appending "_rb" to the end of the address makes it work so I've requested that. We do get hundreds of !bang suggestions and updates though, so it make take a little while.