If that's an issue, and if you don't mind building something out yourself, Marginalia have an excellent API that you can connect to from your own personal non-Javascript meta-search engine. I did that, and I find Marginalia awesome to deal with. They're one of my favorite internet projects.

(Also, thanks for reminding me that it was time I donated something to the Marginalia project: https://buymeacoffee.com/marginalia.nu )

Are there 'public'/'anonymous' API keys I could use to perform a web search with CURL?

(I guess I would get json formatted search result data)

There is! The API Key is literally "public". But apparently it often gets rate limited, because seemingly every Metasearch engine uses that one. I think there might also be a slightly less rate-limited one for Hacker News users if you search around (I no longer remember what it is since I got my own key in the end.)

You can get your own API key for free by emailing, but that would not be anonymous, I guess.

I don't have curl syntax to hand, but hopefully it's easy to figure out from these documents. I may come back and edit later with curl syntax if I get time:

https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/api/

Thx! This is great news.

If their email server does handle self-hosted SMTP server with ip literal email addresses (with the ip from the SMTP, stronger than SPF), indeed, I will probably ask for my mine.

I wish major AI services would do the same or something close.

It shouldn't be. Where are you having issues?

Couple of things.

1. No. It's not javascript only. https://old-search.marginalia.nu/ is still available. It is also mentioned in https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/redesign/ as gonna be there for a very long time.

2. I don't think just because it uses javascript make it bad. It's a very nice site now. I prefer it better than old version. My website doesn't use JS for any functionality yet. But I've never said never either. The reason hasn't arised that I need to use JS. The day it does, I will use it.

But I understand the sentiment though. I used to be a no js guy before. But I've been softened by the need to use it professionally only to think --- hmmm, not bad.

I do 100% disagree.

web apps are gated by the abominations of whatng cartel web engines, with even worse SDKs, mechanically certainly not 'small' and assurely a definitive nono.

And the 'old' interface, you bet I tried to use it... which is actually gated with javascript... so...

I assume you're blocked by the new bot blocker?

I've tested it in both w3m and dillo, should work fine as long as your browser renders noscript tags. It's very much designed from the ground up to handle browsers like that. Just requires you to manually wait a few seconds and then press the link.

One configuration that might break is if you're running something like chrome or firefox, and rigging it to not run JS. But it's really hard to support those types of configurations. If it works in w3m, it's no longer a "site requires JS" issue...

Thanks a lot for considering no-JS browser like Dillo, in the current web hellscape is certainly a difficult task. I checked and it works well in Dillo on my end.

I have tested many times. Some while ago.

I used lynx and links2 (not yet netsurf), as far as I can recall, never got what you talked about.

Was brutally blocked and got the finger because none of those web browsers has javascript (and even CSS).

While thinking about it, I hate even more the whatng cartel for the damage they did to the web with their 'web apps'.

I don't know what to say.

Here's a video of me getting past the bot blocker with links2 I guess?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19-nXUYe9cA

wt... never got that. Did I have parasites on my line??

I did re-test just now, I get the same thing than in the vid.

meh.

BTW, this should not be called "old-search" but "classic-search" as it will never be "old" until the web exist.