Goosle/changelog.md

Goosle

The best Meta Search Engine to find everything

1.7 - August 7, 2024

• NOTICE: config.default.php has changed, update your config.php!!
• [new] Mojeek search results
• [new] Pixabay Image results (Requires free API key, see installation instructions)
• [new] Keyword multiplier for result ranking
• [new] Web search can be turned off
• [new] Cache News results for an hour only, regardless of the cache setting
• [new] Dynamic SEO description for results page (Should be visible when sharing the page)
• [new] 'Verified' label for magnet results where supported
• [update] Added x.com for social media detection
• [update] Added more keywords for nsfw detection in magnet results
• [change] Raised Qwant Images limit from 50 to 150
• [change] Raised Hackernews and Qwant News limit from 30 to 50
• [change] Lowered Wikipedia results from 10 to maximum 5
• [change] Replaced 'porn' with 'nsfw' for safe search switch
• [change] Removed 'xxx' as an keyword to disable safe search
• [change] Don't search on nyaa.si and YTS if you search with safemode off
• [change] Moved image size override into search object
• [change] Added a little space between rows for image results on mobile
• [change] Stats font is now 'Courier'
• [fix] Google search query not providing good results
• [fix] Search query not always properly urlencoded
• [removed] Removed search suggestions as they didn't work

1.6.1 - July 19, 2024

• NOTICE: config.default.php has changed, update your config.php!!
• [new] Query logger for debugging (See config.default.php for details)
• [update] Added url arguments to the formatted url of search results
• [change] Scrape query for DuckDuckGo to be more direct
• [change] Improved tooltips to be popups with better explanations
• [fix] Improved spacing for pagination links
• [fix] More accurately show the current version in the footer
• [fix] Current version not properly stored
• [fix] Pagination offset off by one result
• [fix] Unnecessary global in load_search()
• [fix] Typo in wordpress search
• [fix] Qwant initial total hits and ranking more accurate
• [fix] Goosle header title not bold on stats page
• [fix] Visual fixes to the design of Goosle

1.6 - July 15, 2024

• NOTICE: config.default.php has changed, update your config.php!!
• [change] Moved magnet popups into combined function
• [change] Better handling of EZTV TV Show data
• [change] Better handling of YTS movie data
• [change] Added 6 new public trackers for Magnets
• [change] Removed regularly unresponsive trackers for Magnets
• [change] Search query string processed before search so all engines don't have to do it individually
• [change] Updated help page
• [new] Special searches can have a note/disclaimer in the lower right corner
• [new] Results pagination for all search tabs (Requires caching to be enabled)
• [new] WordPress function, hook and filter lookup as a special search (See help page)
• [new] Language meta data for some Magnet results
• [new] Try to detect audio codec for EZTV results
• [new] Show MPA Rating for some movie results
• [new] Filter to include NSFW Magnet results or not
• [new] Override NSFW filter with prefix keywords (see config.php)
• [new] Simple search stat counter (Link in footer)
• [tweak] Muted the blue and white text in dark theme a tiny bit
• [tweak] Better light blue header in light theme
• [tweak] Added title and alt attributes to relevant links/images
• [tweak] Removed Magnet search limit of 200 results
• [fix] HTML rendering issues for <center> tags in paragraphs
• [fix] Start page buttons in light theme now use the right css variables
• [fix] Properly decode quotes in code snippers for PHP special search
• [fix] Image, News and Magnet search no longer work if they're disabled in config.php
• [fix] 2nd search suggestion not showing if it's available
• [fix] Removed non-functional checking if query is empty in every engine
• [fix] Correctly uses user provided auth hash to keep searching
• [fix] Correctly 'expire' share links for guests so they can not use Goosle beyond seeing the shared results

1.5.1 - June 22, 2024

• [fix] Updated help.php, removed incorrect colorscheme information
• [fix] Typo in text output for goosle-cron.php
• [fix] Various php errors/warnings in goosle-cron.php
• [fix] Url formatting for php function special searches

1.5 - June 19, 2024

• NOTICE: config.default.php has changed, re-create your config.php!!
• [fix] No longer caches empty results
• [fix] No longer make a request if the search query is empty
• [fix] Movie highlight/box office cache now works
• [fix] Language selector for Qwant, Wikipedia and Duckduckgo
• [fix] Season and Episode filter for tv show searches
• [fix] Safe search filter now actually works
• [fix] Magnet Search category exclusion filter now actually works
• [fix] Image size filter works more reliably
• [fix] Handling of doublequotes in search queries
• [fix] Search sources now show result amounts accurately
• [fix] Old cache files are now actually deleted when expired
• [fix] Search tabs not properly centered on smaller screens
• [new] Box Office page with latest/new downloads from a few supported torrent websites
• [new] News page with the latest news from major outlets
• [new] Popup with movie info and download links for YTS Movie Highlights
• [new] CSS colorschemes configurable in config.php
• [new] Easily share magnet links with other Goosle users
• [new] Search results from Qwant API
• [new] Search results from Brave
• [new] Image results from Qwant Image API
• [new] News results from Hackernews
• [new] News results from Yahoo! News
• [new] News results from Brave News
• [new] News results from Qwant News API
• [new] Magnet results from Sukebei.nyaa.si
• [new] Special search for IP Lookups via ipify (Search for "ip" or "myip")
• [new] Safe search switch for Yahoo! Images
• [new] Image size switch for Qwant Images
• [new] Merge missing magnet meta data from duplicate results if it doesn't already exist in the matched previous result
• [new] Detect meta data for Magnet Search results such as sound and video quality.
• [tweak] Cache ttl is now in hours (was minutes)
• [tweak] Optimizations in CSS, HTML separators and more
• [tweak] Moved icons into CSS so they can be colored using colorschemes
• [tweak] Better handling of image results
• [tweak] Better handling of empty/incomplete results for all engines
• [tweak] Better handling of empty/missing meta data for all magnet engines
• [tweak] Better category detection for Limetorrent magnets
• [tweak] Raised Magnet search limit to 200 (was 50)
• [tweak] Raised Wikipedia search limit to 20 (was 10)
• [tweak] Hide magnet results with 0 seeders by default
• [tweak] Uniform array formatting for all engines
• [tweak] Consistent use of single-quotes and double-qoutes
• [tweak] File size string conversion and formatting for all image and magnet engines
• [tweak] Update checks are now done weekly(ish) via the Cron job
• [tweak] Updated .htaccess caching rules
• [removed] CSS for 320px viewport

1.4 - May 16, 2024

• NOTICE: config.default.php has changed, re-create your config.php!!
• [fix] Footer no longer overlaps results
• [fix] Search navigation no longer bunched up on smaller displays
• [fix] Double search type when searching from start page
• [new] Filter for additional/different headers per cURL request
• [new] Image search via Openverse API (Access token and cronjob required, see installation instructions)
• [new] Image search via Qwant
• [new] Web (recent news) search via Qwant API
• [tweak] Merged 'cache' option into 'cache-type', see config.default.php for details
• [tweak] Better filtering for duplicate web results
• [tweak] File size formatting for images more uniform
• [tweak] Optimized curl_multi_exec handling
• [tweak] Improved SEO headers
• [tweak] Layout tweaks and optimizations for search results, header and footer
• [tweak] Removed redundant HTML, CSS and some PHP
• [tweak] MagnetDL search disabled by default because of Cloudflare (Will probably be removed in future version)
• [tweak] Removed non-functional magnet trackers
• [tweak] Added 15 extra public magnet trackers
• [change] Removed Ecosia support
• [change] Removed Reddit support
• [change] Removed 1337x support
• [change] Removed MagnetDL support

1.3 - April 11, 2024

• [fix] Image search crawler filters out non-image results better
• [new] Crawler for results from magnetdl.com
• [new] Direct Reddit.com search, search for 'Top Posts' created in the past year
• [new] YTS movie highlights now link to YTS website when clicking the title
• [new] Placeholder image for missing eztv highlight thumbnails
• [tweak] Better hash matching for duplicate magnet results
• [tweak] Better checking for missing/empty values in image search results
• [tweak] Code cleanup
• [tweak] More uniform code/variable names
• [change] Naming overhaul - Replaced 'Torrent' with 'Magnet' throughout most of Goosle

1.2.2 - February 16, 2024

• [new] Individual on/off setting for each search engine and torrent site
• [new] YTS Highlights for latest releases, highest rated or most downloaded movies
• [new] EZTV Highlights for latest TV Show episode releases
• [new] Goosle-cron.php file for if you want to clear the file cache in the background
• [change] l33tx search disabled by default - They use Cloudflare now, preventing the crawler from working reliably
• [change] Ecosia search disabled by default - They use some kind of bot detector now, preventing the crawler from working once caught
• [change] Now uses an ABSPATH global for file inclusions and paths
• [change] More discrete TV Show and Movie result detection in text search
• [tweak] Filter for eztv search, only include eztv if the search term starts with 'tt' (case insensitive)
• [tweak] Better ecosia link formatting to (hopefully) not get blocked by their bot detector
• [tweak] cURL headers to be (even) more browser-like
• [fix] Variable $url sometimes empty for certain magnet results
• [fix] Blocked category filter for YTS results now actually works

1.2.1 - January 15, 2024

• [new] Merge identical downloads (determined by info hash) from different torrent sites that provide hashes
• [new] Option to cache to flat files instead of APCu, files stored in /cache/ folder
• [new] Blank index.php files in all subfolders to shield from prying eyes
• [tweak] Improved version check
• [fix] Stray periods in some Limetorrent categories
• [fix] Inconsistent size indication for magnet results

1.2 - January 2, 2024

• [new] Preferred language setting for DuckDuckGo results in config.php.
• [new] Preferred language setting for Wikipedia results in config.php.
• [new] Combined DuckDuckGo, Google, Wikipedia and Ecosia (Bing) results into one page.
• [new] Ranking algorithm for search results.
• [new] Option to down-rank certain social media sites in results (Makes them show lower down the page).
• [new] Option to show the Goosle rank along with the search source.
• [new] Crawler for results from Limetorrents.lol.
• [new] Periodic check for updates in footer.
• [change] Moved duckduckgo.php and google.php into the engines/search/ folder.
• [change] Removed Wikipedia special search in favor of actual search results.
• [change] Removed 'Date Added' from 1337x results.
• [change] Removed Chrome based and Mobile user-agents, as they don't work for the WikiPedia API.
• [change] Added more trackers for generating magnet links.
• [tweak] 30-50% faster parsing of search results (couple of ms per search query).
• [tweak] Expanded the season/episode filter to all sources that support TV Shows.
• [tweak] More sensible santization of variables (Searching for html tags/basic code should now work).
• [tweak] Moved 'imdb_id_search' out from special results into its 'own' setting.
• [tweak] Moved 'password_generator' out from special results into its 'own' setting.
• [tweak] More accurate and faster Google scrape.
• [tweak] Reduced paragraph margins.
• [tweak] More code cleanup, making it more uniform.
• [fix] Prevents searching on disabled methods by 'cheating' the search type in the url.
• [fix] Better decoding for special characters in urls for search results.
• [fix] Better validation for special searches trigger words.
• [fix] Better sanitization for DuckDuckGo and Google results.

1.1 - December 21, 2023

• [new] API search for EZTV TV Shows.
• [new] config.default.php with default settings.
• [new] New option 'imdb_id_search' in 'special' settings in config.php.
• [new] New option 'show_zero_seeders' in config.php.
• [new] Special result and redirect for IMDb IDs.
• [new] Replaced image search with Yahoo! Images.
• [new] Styled 'reset' button for search fields.
• [tweak] Removed 'raw_output' option.
• [tweak] Re-arranged results array to be more logical/easy to use.
• [tweak] Re-arranged code for results to do no double checks for search results.
• [tweak] Added more user-agents.
• [tweak] Magnet results page.
• [tweak] Sanitize scraped data earlier in the process.
• [tweak] Consistent single quotes for arrays.
• [tweak] Consistent spaces, tabs and newlines.
• [fix] Inconsistent input height for search field vs search button.
• [fix] Better check if a search is currency conversion or not.
• [fix] Typos in help.php.

1.0.2 - December 7, 2023

• [change] More useful error response when search doesn't work.
• [change] EngineRequest::request_successful() now provides a boolean response.
• [change] Removed versioning indicator from help page.
• [change] Added version indicator to results.php and help.php footer.
• [change] 'Nope, Go away!' for unauthorized users changed to 'Goosle'.
• [fix] Magnet links no longer opening in new tabs.

1.0.1 - December 5, 2023

• [fix] mktime() getting intermittent strings in 1337x crawler.
• [fix] mktime() getting intermittent strings in nyaa crawler.

1.0 - December 5, 2023

• Initial release

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