[LAU] Searchable list archive? (was: Re: irqbalance and searchable list archive?)

[Peter P.]

* Sam Kuper <sampablokuper at posteo.net> [2022-04-22 09:41]:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 03:02:12AM +0200, Peter P. wrote:
> > [...] I was furthermore trying to search this list's archive, but
> > could not find a search engine at
> > https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Is there any?
> 
> You can search them locally.  Download them thus:
> 
>     wget --page-requisites --https-only --wait=5 \
>     'https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-user/'{2002..2022}-{January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,November,December}'.txt.gz'
> 
> (Remove the "--wait=5" if you're in a rush, but otherwise leave it in to
> be polite to server hosts & other users.  Remove "--page-requisites" if
> you don't want to preserve the URL/directory structure.)
> 
> Then either:
> 
> -  zgrep the monthly archives, or
> 
> -  load the monthly archives in a MUA that can handle compressed
>    mailboxes (e.g. Mutt) and search from there, or
Thanks Sam, that seems like a possible solution for now although I
haven't tried it yet.

> Alternatively, you can use a third-party search engine (Google,
> DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Bing, whatever).  Search engines vary in their
> syntax, but try e.g. searching for
> 
>     foo inurl:lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-user/
> 
> where "foo" is the term of interest.
Sadly, searching for
	kernel inurl:lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-user/
on startpage.com or google.com/ncr 
did not produce any results.

I would be nice to have a searchable web archive.

Peter