Do Plugins

Google calculator plugin no longer functions

Bug #577988 reported by beefstu
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Do Plugins
Fix Released
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Robert Dyer

Bug Description

Similar to #346459 however has only occurred recently so do not believe it is same bug.

trying to perform calculations in google calculator plugin just gives "Google Calculator could not evaluate the expression."

Has only happened since Google has changed the layout of their page.

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RProgrammer (h-root-rprogrammer-net) wrote :

I have the same bug.
Here are some screenshots.

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Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :

This is due to recent changes in Google's layout.

Changed in do-plugins:
importance: Undecided → Low
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Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :

Fixed in rev 684.

Changed in do-plugins:
status: New → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Robert Dyer (psybers)
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Frank Gross (f-gross) wrote :

Robert, thanks for fixing!
Frank

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zasq (zasq) wrote :

Hello. Unfortunately, I have this problem now in ubuntu maverick. The version of gnome-do-plugins is 0.8.2.1+dfsg-2ubuntu1. And I suppose there is still no ppa for maverick. Is there another way to solve this problem? I use the currency function a lot... Thanks a lot.

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Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :

Compile from source.

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reaper (bazuka-gun99) wrote :

I have the exact same problem! I'm running revision 695 and I still get the same "Google Calculator could not evaluate the expression."
I have cleared my ~/.local/share/gnome-do/ just in case and still nothing! =/

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Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :

Once again, it is broken. Google keeps changing the output. We need a stable API to work off of, this is getting ridiculous.

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Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :

Fixed (again) in rev 696.

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Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :

We need to switch to a new (stable) API, and I think I found it. But it will take a bit more to fix up. Working on that now. :)

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Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :

Ok rev 697 is using a (hopefully) stable Google calculator API. This is no longer parsing a general google search result page, it is an actual API using by the Google widgets so hopefully won't break again!

Chris Halse Rogers (raof)
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status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Jason Eisner (jason-cs) wrote :

This problem is back. (Can't say when it came back, since I haven't used this plugin before.)

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