[BUG] Before u continue to Google

[anoo2niem]

Describe the bug
Just since now, i'm not able to use whoogle anymore. The google 'consent' page is popping up to allow or decline cookies.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Search any keywoard

Deployment Method
Proxmox in lxc container

Version of Whoogle Search
8.2.0 (installed with script https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/, which i guess uses pip, not sure)

Additional context
Tried changing vpn location where my instance is routed through

[Hydranet]

I'm also getting the same with Whoogle running in a container, running the same version(v0.8.2 ). Earlier today this wasn't a problem so Google must have changed something?

[rickykresslein]

Same. This is a duplicate of #243, but that was from a couple of years ago. It seems this is a bug that keeps popping up when Google changes things.
Also, in the other post it seems this was an EU-only issue, and I am in the EU.

[anoo2niem]

Yeah the cause is surely on google's end. Probably it was/is a EU-only issue because of GDPR.
Hopefully this can be bypassed in some way.

[seirdotexe]

Getting the same thing

[Syrox94]

same here

[cpu2910]

+1
Ubuntu Server 22.04 , Whoogle Docker v0.8.2

[anoo2niem]

Current workaround; i've got my whoogle working again by routing it through a non EU vpn.

[helsingi]

same issue

[NoCodeFromMe]

Same, also located in the EU.
Debian 11, Pip, Whoogle Search v0.8.2

[imTHAI]

Same here, from France

[chocology]

same here from Bern

[JiriVitner]

I can confirm same issue from Brno (Czech)

[Procuria]

Can confirm too from Germany

[imTHAI]

Current workaround; i've got my whoogle working again by routing it through a non EU vpn.

Indeed. Thanks, it It will do the job in the meantime.

[fabi321]

whoogle-search/app/request.py

Line 310 in 18fc14d

'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(

It looks like, the current style uses consent yes. However, If I try it out in a browser window, it always sets it to Pending+###, and also sets another cookie, SOCS, to CAISHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg (this is consistent across private browser sessions) Setting both of these resolved the issue in my case. (replace # with any digits, using 900 all the time seems to do fine)

[cpu2910]

Current workaround; i've got my whoogle working again by routing it through a non EU vpn.

May I ask how and where to do this ?
My whoogle runs in a docker container on a ubuntu server nginx reverse proxy...

[anoo2niem]

Current workaround; i've got my whoogle working again by routing it through a non EU vpn.

May I ask how and where to do this ? My whoogle runs in a docker container on a ubuntu server nginx reverse proxy...

I have a separate container running wireguard, and i point my whoogle container it's gateway to the ip of the wireguard container. So set up a wireguard container and configure it according to your vpn provider, then make sure your iptables are set up right, so all network traffic comming in that container is forwarded properly.

[anoo2niem]

whoogle-search/app/request.py

Line 310 in 18fc14d

'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(

It looks like, the current style uses consent yes. However, If I try it out in a browser window, it always sets it to Pending+###, and also sets another cookie, SOCS, to CAISHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg (this is consistent across private browser sessions) Setting both of these resolved the issue in my case. (replace # with any digits, using 900 all the time seems to do fine)

Would u mind explaining how to set these?
I want to try it aswell but i'm not sure how to modify that line.

[Imaskiller]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            }

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            } 

fixes the problem.

edit fix typo

[anoo2niem]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

Thanks, seems to have solved it indeed.

[C8opmBM]

hopefully an update will be pushed soon. I have no idea how to edit those cookies lines :)

[jniggemann]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

Thanks, seems to have solved it indeed.

I confirm.

[bjornberfelo]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

Confirm that it solves the problem, but i needed to remove the ) on the end :-) otherwise i got a error: SyntaxError: closing parenthesis ')' does not match opening parenthesis '{' on line 309

[mztiq]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

Confirm that it solves the problem, but i needed to remove the ) on the end :-) otherwise i got a error: SyntaxError: closing parenthesis ')' does not match opening parenthesis '{' on line 309

Can confirm.

[LANTaverne2]

Hi, same error. I fix it with the workaround to modiy the request.py

        'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
        'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 

Thanks

[Sebastix]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

This change also fixed it for me and I've manually build the Docker image (see https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#manual-docker) to start a new container with it.

[Tubeman-cell]

Getting the same thing

[C8opmBM]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

This change also fixed it for me and I've manually build the Docker image (see https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#manual-docker) to start a new container with it.

Could you share your docker image until the official one is updated? I've never built an image and Im sure this will come handy for a lot of other users. In advance, thanks

[cpu2910]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

This change also fixed it for me and I've manually build the Docker image (see https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#manual-docker) to start a new container with it.

Could you share your docker image until the official one is updated? I've never built an image and Im sure this will come handy for a lot of other users. In advance, thanks

You may edit your running container:
docker exec -it <container_id> /bin/sh
edit the 'cookies'-line in ./app/request.py
exit the container and restart with 'docker restart <container_id>

That fixed the problem for me.

[bjornberfelo]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

This change also fixed it for me and I've manually build the Docker image (see https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#manual-docker) to start a new container with it.

Could you share your docker image until the official one is updated? I've never built an image and Im sure this will come handy for a lot of other users. In advance, thanks

Anyone who what's a temp image to use :-)
blivius92/temp-whoogle:latest

[cemkur]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

This change also fixed it for me and I've manually build the Docker image (see https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#manual-docker) to start a new container with it.

Could you share your docker image until the official one is updated? I've never built an image and Im sure this will come handy for a lot of other users. In advance, thanks

Anyone who what's a temp image to use :-) blivius92/temp-whoogle:latest

you need to remove the fourth line on the replacing block which is just a )
than it works.

[nagyrobi]

And how about the rest of us who installed by pip?

[heinxyze]

Same behaviour
latest Whoogle docker image running on QNAP NAS, Germany

[be-root]

And how about the rest of us who installed by pip?

nano /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/app/request.py

Line 297:

297 cookies = {
298 'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
299 'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg'
300 }

[imTHAI]

And how about the rest of us who installed by pip?

If it is confirmed that it solves the problem, why don't we apply the modification in the official branch ? Some extra tests must be performed ?

[fabi321]

@imTHAI I already created #1054, it's just waiting to be merged

[fusrohdan]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

This change also fixed it for me and I've manually build the Docker image (see https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#manual-docker) to start a new container with it.

Could you share your docker image until the official one is updated? I've never built an image and Im sure this will come handy for a lot of other users. In advance, thanks

You may edit your running container: docker exec -it <container_id> /bin/sh edit the 'cookies'-line in ./app/request.py exit the container and restart with 'docker restart <container_id>

That fixed the problem for me.

Hey, thanks for your fix. I went to do this fix in my docker container, but there is no text editor available. I tried vim and nano. What text editor did you use? I tried to see if the container has a volume mounted so I can edit from host but that is not the case.
Thanks!

[JiriVitner]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

This change also fixed it for me and I've manually build the Docker image (see https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#manual-docker) to start a new container with it.

Could you share your docker image until the official one is updated? I've never built an image and Im sure this will come handy for a lot of other users. In advance, thanks

You may edit your running container: docker exec -it <container_id> /bin/sh edit the 'cookies'-line in ./app/request.py exit the container and restart with 'docker restart <container_id>
That fixed the problem for me.

Hey, thanks for your fix. I went to do this fix in my docker container, but there is no text editor available. I tried vim and nano. What text editor did you use? I tried to see if the container has a volume mounted so I can edit from host but that is not the case. Thanks!

In the container is available "vi", not "vim"

[baerenmarke90]

Workaround works, thank you!

[fusrohdan]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

This change also fixed it for me and I've manually build the Docker image (see https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#manual-docker) to start a new container with it.

Could you share your docker image until the official one is updated? I've never built an image and Im sure this will come handy for a lot of other users. In advance, thanks

You may edit your running container: docker exec -it <container_id> /bin/sh edit the 'cookies'-line in ./app/request.py exit the container and restart with 'docker restart <container_id>
That fixed the problem for me.

Hey, thanks for your fix. I went to do this fix in my docker container, but there is no text editor available. I tried vim and nano. What text editor did you use? I tried to see if the container has a volume mounted so I can edit from host but that is not the case. Thanks!

In the container is available "vi", not "vim"

Thank you, I have edited the cookies line now but the container won't start. I will troubleshoot later after work

[GusGus68]

Replacing

        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
                now.year, now.month, now.day
            )

with

       cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg' 
            ) 

fixes the problem.

This change also fixed it for me and I've manually build the Docker image (see https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#manual-docker) to start a new container with it.

Could you share your docker image until the official one is updated? I've never built an image and Im sure this will come handy for a lot of other users. In advance, thanks

You may edit your running container: docker exec -it <container_id> /bin/sh edit the 'cookies'-line in ./app/request.py exit the container and restart with 'docker restart <container_id>
That fixed the problem for me.

Hey, thanks for your fix. I went to do this fix in my docker container, but there is no text editor available. I tried vim and nano. What text editor did you use? I tried to see if the container has a volume mounted so I can edit from host but that is not the case. Thanks!

In the container is available "vi", not "vim"

Thank you, I have edited the cookies line now but the container won't start. I will troubleshoot later after work

The reason it won't start is the last bracket. If you remove it it will work.

For any other noobs like me, the way to do this in docker is as per the instructions above. ssh into your server. then type
docker exec -it <container_id> /bin/sh
cd app
vi request.py

then replace
cookies = {
'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(
now.year, now.month, now.day
)

with the following
cookies = {
'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg'

note the last bracket is removed

Then exit and restart container with
docker restart <container_id>

[imTHAI]

It works for me too

[IvanVojtko]

Not the nicest one, but for my fellow kubernetes folks out there, update your deployment with

command: ["/bin/sh"]
args: ["-c", "sed -i '312d' app/request.py && sed -i \"s|'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(|'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',|g\" app/request.py && sed -i \"s|now.year, now.month, now.day|'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhIaAB'|g\" app/request.py && misc/tor/start-tor.sh & ./run"]

[Luxumbra27]

Little correction:

args: ["-c", "sed -i '312d' app/request.py && sed -i \"s|'CONSENT': 'YES+cb.{:d}{:02d}{:02d}-17-p0.de+F+678'.format(|'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',  |g\" app/request.py && sed -i \"s|now.year, now.month, now.day|'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg'|g\" app/request.py && sed -i \"s|            )||g\" app/request.py && misc/tor/start-tor.sh & ./run"]

[Drallas]

I run a LXC with Whoogle and struggled a bit, with whoogle.service service not starting.

This is how I did it.

systemctl stop whoogle.service

vi /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/app/request.py

Then replaced the complete 'cookies block' for:

        # view is suppressed correctly
        now = datetime.now()
        cookies = {
            'CONSENT': 'PENDING+987',
            'SOCS': 'CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg'
        }

systemctl start whoogle.service
systemctl status whoogle.service

[Hydranet]

Anyone who what's a temp image to use :-)
blivius92/temp-whoogle:latest

I just tried @bjornberfelo's temp image and it works, thank you! Which means that if you are running the official image and change the lines manually in your image that your container needs a restart which means you need to be using persistent storage for your container or else your container will revert to the image you are using when you restart your container.

[malyyigor34]

Confirm issue, I am from Poland

[HeavyTobi]

same issue for me,

Germany
Whoogle v0.8.2
Server: Docker @ Ubuntu LTS
Clients tested: Firefox on macOS and Safari on iOS

[hs6666]

same issue here....

[Deedikjupijn]

Same issue here,
Just installed whoogle,
Server: Docker debian 11

[DrMatschhirn]

Same Issue with latest Docker Image.

[peternrdstrm]

I have the same issue but with Heroku. Can somebody help me do the workaround?

[martyn-meister]

Latest docker image works for me. Remember to do a docker pull, or in k8s ImagePullPolicy: Always or you won't get the newest.

[sorcer1122]

Had the same problem in Amsterdam. The following fixed it:
docker pull benbusby/whoogle-search
docker stop [container_id]
docker rm [container_id]
docker run --publish 5000:5000 --detach --name whoogle-search benbusby/whoogle-search:latest