Search don't work

[gahmasec]

When I do a search, it keeps looking but doesn't show any results. And yes, I get the notification "Welcome, connection established".
Any solution?

[evan-buss]

When you do a search, you should see "Search accepted into queue" within seconds. If not, assume that you are being blocked / banned from the IRC server. You will always see "Welcome, connection established" which just means that you've connected to the IRC server even if you are banned.

The most import thing is to specify a --useragent when starting it as I believe once they see "OpenBooks" in your useragent they will automatically ban you. Bans are associated with your IP address and usually wear off in a few days. Change your username between bans as well.

[miniquandt]

Same thing happen/happened to me. When updating my useragent on my network still nothing happens, but I am able to view and download books when tethered to data. So I guess my home is also banned.

I used docker and ran: docker run -p 8080:80 evanbuss/openbooks -u [myusernameofchoice] -n [myusernameofchoice]

Might be helpful to add a section in the docs, I wouldn't have known otherwise unless I saw this thread.

[ruihaut]

I had a similar issue and posted the way I resolved this here.

Basically, I added the following argument and I got the search working again :

--searchbot searchook

[juliopcrj]

I had the same issue when I was using a username that was already registered ( I do have an account on irchighway). I just changed the --name flag, and it worked.