Yesterday I was thinking about looking for something in my Quassel logs, and I didn't really feel like trying to scroll through the last 2 weeks' worth of backlog to find it. Also, at this stage Quassel unfortunately doesn't have a search feature either (Quassel devs, count that as a feature request 
).
So I hauled out my latest trusty tool: Python.
Quassel stores it's data in an SQLite 3 database, so I opened the database and had a look at it's structure, and then wrote a Python script to search the database.
Therefore, I proudly present Quassel Search 0.1 for Quassel 0.4.
How to use it:
- Download the script
- Set it's executable bit:
chmod a+x quassel-search.py
- Run it with the help option to see it's options:
./quassel-search.py -h
Notes:
- I have only tested this on Python 2.5. If you're using 2.4 you'll need to install the SQLite 3 module.
- You probably want to download your database to a local machine before searching. Also, rather make a copy of the database before you download it, because otherwise you will most likely end up with a corrupted database.
Update
I've been told there *is* a search function in Quassel, but it only seems to search the current text in the current buffer, not the backlog. I could, once again, be wrong though.
