Installation • Usage • Key Features • To-Do

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AnswerMe is a script (written in perl) which fetches you the StackOverflow answers for all of your programming/coding doubts. It uses StackOverflow as well as Google's best search results available.

It is inspired from HowTo which is purely written in Go.

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Installation

Clone the repo, install prerequisites (see below), then build it:

# clone this repo
$ git clone https://github.com/sumandipanshu/AnswerMe.git

# change the working directory to AnswerMe
$ cd AnswerMe

# install perl5 if not installed

$ perl Makefile.PL

# build + unit tests
$ make && make test

Then install it:

# this step may require writing permissions
$ sudo make install

Note: On Windows platforms, you should use dmake or nmake, instead of make.

If your perl is system-managed, you can create a local::lib in your home directory to install modules to. For details, see the local::lib documentation: https://metacpan.org/pod/local::lib

The prerequisites of this distribution will also have to be installed manually. The prerequisites are listed in one of the files: MYMETA.yml or MYMETA.json generated by running the manual build process described above.

Usage

To run this script, type the following:

$ answerme.pl

You can find the Search Results in your working directory named as results.json.

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Features

• Uses google's result along with stackoverflow's result.
• Provides JSON file containing results from both (can used wherever you want).

To-Do

• Add google results along with stackoverflow results
• Create a Terminal ui for navigating through the answers
• Implement Syntax Highlighting for code parts
• Setup the AnswerMe on Docker

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License

• MIT license
• Copyright 2020 © Dipanshu

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