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Re: [LUG] Find a (link to a) form on a website

 

On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, Adrian Midgley wrote:

What's a more clever way to find the page which has the form, or the
link to the form, in a website of many pages than reading each page?

you could use the advanced search page of a search engine.

for example, ixquick's...

 https://ixquick.com/eng/advanced-search.html

and then, just to pick some exotic example, if you were looking for
form 1040 at the US internal revenue service's website, you might fill
out the search form like so:

   |                                       Advanced Search Tips
   |          with all the words           1040________________
   |         with the exact phrase         ____________________
   |    with at least one of the words     ____________________
   |           without the words           ____________________
   | with text in the [spacer.gif] [url__] .pdf________________
   |          at this domain name          irs.gov_____________
   |    with links to this domain name     ____________________
   |                sort by                    [relevance]
   |      At this type of domain name            [any__]


on ixquick this example seemed to work perfectly.  (though a search in
identical terms on startpage, ixquick's google scraper, came up empty,
which is weird.)

the "with text in the url" option is useful (obviously), if you know
the name of a relevant directory, or if you're looking for a pdf or
something.

you can, i think, request the same search through a non-advanced,
one-liner, search form by querying:

 url:".pdf" host:irs.gov +1040

pretty sure they amount to the same thing.

hth.

-wes

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