Updated: a new version corrects some bugs. Please check the new GReader Gears Search Bug Fixed Edition. The download link in this post is for the new version too.
What is Google Reader Gears Search
It’s a Greasemonkey script that provides us a search function under Google Reader, the feed reader from Google, it uses Google Gears. This User Script has been tested in Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu Linux, Mac OSX y Windows XP.
What do I need
You must be using Greasemonkey and Google Gears, and at least you should been using Google Reader in offline mode once.
Does it present any limitations
It only can be used with Google Gears and Greasemonkey compatible web browsers. Furthermore the search results are perform only over the 2000 items stored in the Google Gears database.
What things can be improved
At this moment the search is performed over the same database table used by Google Reader, in this table you can’t use Full-Text Searches, so a simple/poor database query with like is being used. An idea is replicating this table in order it’s possible to perform Full-Text searches. The UI presenting the results could be better and adapted to the Google Reader one. The results should be paginated Just added!.All this features are in my mind, but now I’m out of time, at least until I finish my exams, but I think it isn’t a bad first solution.
How the idea became
The last week I was in the Google Developer Day 2007 at Madrid, and I had the oportunity of chatting with Chris Wetherell, the Google Reader Creator and the one choosed by Google to present the keynote about Gears in Madrid. One of my questions to Chris was about the troubles/options of including a search engine into Google Reader (for each user), Chris answered me at lightspeed explaining the problems associated to this kind of searches.I was a bit slow, maybe beacuase I was between a lot of Googlers, so I only listen to the answer, no more. But during the party (yes, we had a party at Madrid event) the idea became: how hard could be use Gears querying the local SQLite database? Chris, apart of being a good engineer and a great guy, brings my the inspiration to create the Greasemonkey script that query the local database. So Chris, thank you.
Last-minute
While I was writting this post I have been thinking about the possibility of maintaining a database table with all the Google Reader item, and not only the ones that are syncronized with Google Reader. It’s only another idea, but I write this in order to not forget that.
Feedback
You can send me feedback about Google Reader Gears Search through this entry comments and mailing me to: i@rau1.com.
P.S.
Sorry about my english.
Updated: a new version corrects some bugs. Please check the new GReader Gears Search Bug Fixed Edition. The download link in this post is for the new version too.
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13 de Junio de 2007 a las 4:25 am
Excelente idea, Raúl! Ya hay otros métodos, pero el tuyo parece el más fácil de implementar. Muchas gracias por dedicarle el tiempo y compartirlo.
(short version for the spanish-impaired: thanks. great.)
13 de Junio de 2007 a las 7:12 am
This is a great idea, thanks. Your English looks almost perfect, no apologies needed.
13 de Junio de 2007 a las 11:07 am
Nada de “Sorry about my english”!
13 de Junio de 2007 a las 11:17 am
Thank you guys!
If you have some requests or suggestions, please let a comment.
13 de Junio de 2007 a las 10:30 pm
Great script! Really awesome that I can search my feeds now…
14 de Junio de 2007 a las 4:54 am
I have Gears installed, Greasemonkey 0.7.20070607.0 installed, and this script. But when I entered a search field into the text box, clicked on Gears Search, nothing happens. My page gets reloaded and I am shown Reader’s home page. How did you guys get it to work?
14 de Junio de 2007 a las 12:03 pm
Hi.
Great script. But I found an error in it. When the _USER_ID of google reader has 2 or more zeros at the beginning then the database name is not calculated correctly. Just replace this code (line 109):
” if (_USER_ID.charAt(0) == ‘0′) {”+”\r\n”+
” var dbname = ‘GR-’ + parseInt(_USER_ID.substr(1)).toString(16);”+”\r\n”+
” } else {”+”\r\n”+
” var dbname = ‘GR-’ + parseInt(_USER_ID).toString(16);”+”\r\n”+
” }”+”\r\n”+
with this
” var tempid = _USER_ID;”+”\r\n”+
” while (tempid.charAt(0) == ‘0′) {”+”\r\n”+
” tempid = tempid.substr(1);”+”\r\n”+
” }”+”\r\n”+
” var dbname = ‘GR-’ + parseInt(tempid).toString(16);”+”\r\n”+
” db.open(dbname);”+”\r\n”+
14 de Junio de 2007 a las 12:15 pm
@Raymon: Have you synced you gears’ reader database at least once?
@Marcin Jaworski: Thank you very much! I’m improving the current version, I have been studying the DOM and I have found the object where database name is stored, so in the future it’ll not need to convert the _USER_ID.
14 de Junio de 2007 a las 6:09 pm
This is quite a nice script. It really highlights the usefulness of search in greader.
15 de Junio de 2007 a las 10:32 am
In case you weren’t aware, you can get a function’s source with its toString(), toSource() or valueOf() methods. It’s a lot easier to read if you define the functions within the script and then convert them to strings, rather than having line after line of ‘+”\r\n”+’…
function f() { alert("hi"); }; var s = f.toString();16 de Junio de 2007 a las 11:38 am
@Sam Angove: OMG! How my code is hurting! Thank you, I’ll be using this advice.
22 de Junio de 2007 a las 3:38 pm
Raúl,
This looks nice and went my new laptop arrives in a few weeks I’ll give it a go!
4 de Julio de 2007 a las 2:47 am
Way to go! I’ve been looking for something like this! Thank you :)
20 de Julio de 2007 a las 10:09 am
Something’s up with Google Reader today because when using this script, the content pane doesn’t show anything while the left navigation pane is fine.
6 de Septiembre de 2007 a las 10:15 am
Parece que google ya ha integrado la función de búsqueda en su Reader. Por Fin.
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/09/we-found-it.html
6 de Septiembre de 2007 a las 9:29 pm
@mikmor, sí, y la verdad es que funciona muy bien. Gracias por el aviso!
16 de Diciembre de 2007 a las 1:36 am
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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