stacksearch 1.3.10

StackSearch is a python module that provides a way to search StackOverflow.

stacksearch 🔎

NOTE: STACKSEARCH IS NO LONGER ACTIVELY MAINTAINED. There will still be the occasional bug fixes and updates, but not as much.

StackSearch is a python module that provides a way to search StackOverflow.

The reason this is better than other modules is that this module provides a modern API, a beautiful command-line interface via argparse and blessings, all in pure Python.

It is also available as a standalone command-line tool, so you may run it directly like so:

stacksearch This is the query

without the python3 -m prefix, if desired.

It also has an API which you can use via

>>> from stackoverflow import Search
>>> Search.Search("This is the query")

Have fun!

Benefits 👍

The benefits of this module as opposed to the other StackOverflow-searching modules is that this module provides the following:

• The ability to return a dictionary of ALL the search results found, not just the first result
• The ability to return results from a variety of different StackExchange sites
• A beautiful command-line interface for humans
• A decently documented API
• An optional asynchronous API
• Decently easy-to-read code (formatted with Black)
• And open source code on GitHub

Downsides 👎

• Possibly slower than the other modules
• The first PyPi project ever made by ThatXliner
• Not fully (completely) optimized (well, after all, it's python)
• A big list of dependencies (shortened in version 1.0.0 or so)

Current Features 😁

• Everything listed in the 'Benefits' section of the README above
• Mostly, if not fully, type-hinted
• A beautiful, simple, yet powerful command-line interface (via argparse and blessings)
• Asynchronous StackOverflow requests!
• The ability to crank out raw JSON data to use
• And an API

Future Features 🏃‍♂️

• Asynchronous StackOverflow requests! (Done in v1.1.0)
• Documentation (Sort of added in v1.2.8)
• Object-oriented APIs
• Python backwards-compatibility
• Being able to scrape all StackOverflow sites/pages
• A better README (Done in v1.0.0.1)
• Being able to output different formats of data (e.g. YAML, TOML, XML, etc)
• And more command-line options

Usage Examples

• For creating a text editor extension built on this package

• For searching StackOverflow and/or other StackExchange websites without leaving the Terminal (for those Vim people)

• For getting lots of answers from all StackExchange sites you know

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 ThatXliner

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Code style guide 😳

Black. We (I, right now.) use the black formatter to format our code. It's pretty strict.

We also use NumPy style docstrings.

Contributing ✏️

Please feel free to contribute!

Links 📎

GitHub (Possibly this page)

PyPi (Possibly this page)

Travis-CI