Server requests return HTML due to redirect to new codesearch

[jessemckenna]

API requests currently return HTML instead of JSON, resulting in an error. @asankah advised that this is due to requests to cs.chromium.org being redirected to the new codesearch at source.chromium.org, which now requires an API key.

For example, this test script:

g_cs = codesearch.CodeSearch(should_cache=True, source_root='.')
response = g_cs.SendRequestToServer(codesearch.CompoundRequest(
    search_request=[
    codesearch.SearchRequest(query='hello world',
                             return_line_matches=True,
                             lines_context=0,
                             max_num_results=10)
    ]))

Currently hits this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\jessemckenna\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\ChromiumXRefs\third_party\codesearch\messages.py", line 204, in FromJsonString
    d = json.loads(s)
  File "C:\src\depot_tools\bootstrap-3_8_0_chromium_8_bin\python3\bin\lib\json\__init__.py", line 357, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "C:\src\depot_tools\bootstrap-3_8_0_chromium_8_bin\python3\bin\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "C:\src\depot_tools\bootstrap-3_8_0_chromium_8_bin\python3\bin\lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Printing the server response, result, from SendRequestToServer before it is passed to FromJSONString shows an HTML response from source.chromium.org.

[cdoublev]

Hello,

I got here by searching for "Chromium Code Search API" in Google. I was using this script a few years ago, to quickly get a list of inherited CSS properties and maintain this document. I understood that searching in the Chromium codebase now inloves using a private "Contents API".

Since you both seem to work at Google, can you please just tell me if there's an "official" way to achieve the task described above?

[asankah]

Unfortunately there isn't an official API for that.

This code was also using an unofficial and unsupported endpoint which is no longer available.

On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 3:37 AM Guillaume [email protected] wrote:

Hello,

I got here by searching for "Chromium Code Search API" in Google. I was using this script a few years ago, to quickly get a list of inherited CSS properties and maintain this document. I understood that searching in the Chromium codebase now inloves using a private "Contents API".

Since you both seem to work at Google, can you please just tell me if there's an "official" way to achieve the task described above?

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