Google hacks for archos widget download

1twee3vier · Post by **1twee3vier** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:41 pm

Could be a great app, but doesn't work at all for me

If I click the button to search, nothing happens...

divx118 · Post by **divx118** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:09 am

Did you copy the zip into the widget folder of your archos (don't unpack).
And start the widget from within the widget manager.
It should work.

Maurice

Sombra · Post by **Sombra** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:21 pm

Great widget...I can see me actually using this one. I won't use it for the bulk of my media downloading, but rather for quirky one-off downloads.

gamerzfuse · Post by **gamerzfuse** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:47 am

Brilliant Idea.

Post the completed version once you have it. I would definitely use this for that spur of the moment song-in-my-head urge.

Your work is very much appreciated! (both original and port)

Gyroburner · Post by **Gyroburner** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:34 pm

This is great, I just downloaded a book I have been wanting to read. Thanks mate.

Post by **roylovelock** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:52 pm

any chance of adding audiobook cat.?
nice app works very well even for a beta release
cheers!
roy

divx118 · Post by **divx118** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:23 pm

That will be no problem I changed alot on the coding (the javascript from jadd was a bit of a mess) so it is now easy to add some stuff. I will be working on it later tonight and smooth the layout a bit.

Maurice

divx118 · Post by **divx118** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:38 pm

@Roy I looked into adding an audiobook cat., but isn't it so that most audiobooks are .mp3 or do they use some other extensions (I myself never use audiobooks I prefer to read.)
If that is the case you could just use the music search with the mp3 extension.

BTW It is not a miracle tool it just searches the web with some additional google parameters wich are a pain if you would type it each time you want to search for a file.

Maurice

divx118 · Post by **divx118** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:47 pm

It is finished. I added some more file extensions to the music and video search.
There is also an extra search button for a regular search on google for the text you did type in the inputfield.
If you think there are some missing features pleace post them here and I will look into it if it can be added.

BTW just download the zip in the first post again for the latest version.

Maurice

jrt · Post by **jrt** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:16 pm

Hi, thanks for making this, but I can't figure out how to download stuff such as videos.

divx118 · Post by **divx118** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:38 pm

If you search for a video then if you click the search option a new window will open with the google search results then if you are lucky you can just click one of those links and if it is a file the archos will prompt you if it should be downloaded. The downloaded files will be in the directory Downloads on your archos accesseble with the filebrowser.

Please note it is not a miracle tool and not meant to be a replacement for downloading alot of files which can be better done on your pc.
Also it is not a download tool just a search aid for google.
It is meant to be like Sombra said:

Great widget...I can see me actually using this one. I won't use it for the bulk of my media downloading, but rather for quirky one-off downloads.

Maurice