Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: askstack
Version: 0.1.2
Summary: Search answers on stackoverflow
Home-page: https://github.com/pdrb/askstack
Author: Pedro Buteri Gonring
Author-email: pedro@bigode.net
License: MIT
Description: askstack
        ========
        
        Search answers on Stack Overflow. Can use Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo search
        engine.
        
        About
        -----
        
        Just pass some keywords to the script and it will uses a search engine to find
        the most relevant pages on Stack Overflow.
        
        Then, it will get the first code snippet from the question page or the full
        answer text.
        
        Simple example:
        
        ::
        
            $ askstack python delete dict key
            ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        
            Question: How to remove a key from a python dictionary?
        
            my_dict.pop('key', None)
        
        
            Answer from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11277432
        
            ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        
            Question: Delete an item from a dictionary
        
            del d[key]
        
        
            Answer from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5844672
        
            ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        
        
        Install
        -------
        
        Install using pip:
        
        ::
        
            pip install askstack
        
        
        Usage
        -----
        
        ::
        
            Usage: askstack keywords... [options]
        
            search answers on stackoverflow
        
            Options:
            --version       show program's version number and exit
            -h, --help      show this help message and exit
            -a ANSWERS      number of answers to retrieve (default: 2)
            -e ENGINE       search engine to use: 'google', 'bing', 'duckduckgo' or
                            'fallback' - fallback will try google and fallback to bing
                            and duckduckgo if a search fails (default: fallback)
            -f, --fulltext  get the full answer text (default: disabled)
            -s SLEEP        sleep time between requests (default: 0.5)
            -t TIMEOUT      timeout in seconds to wait for reply (default: 5)
        
        
        Examples
        --------
        
        If you are feeling lucky, get only the first code snippet:
        
        ::
        
            $ askstack linux gzip directory -a 1
        
        Get full first answer:
        
        ::
        
            $ askstack linux gzip directory -a 1 -f
        
        Try to get three answers using only DuckDuckGo as the search engine:
        
        ::
        
            $ askstack linux gzip directory -a 3 -e duckduckgo
        
        
        Notes
        -----
        
        - Works on Python 2.7
        - Tested on Linux and Windows, but should work on all platforms
        
Keywords: search answer ask stack overflow command line
Platform: UNKNOWN
