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Asked: 2026-06-17T15:29:40+00:00

The code below does not work for foreign words but works perfectly on english

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The code below does not work for foreign words but works perfectly on english words.

let int=1244764800
let start=86400+$int 
let l=86400*7
let end=$int-$l

for (( k = $start ; k > $end ; k=k-3600 )) do
for (( j = 1 ; j < 11 ; j++ )) do
let mintime=$k-3600;
let maxtime=$k
searchwords="سلام"

#echo $maxtime
curl "http://otter.topsy.com/search.json?q="${searchwords}"&page="$j"&perpage=100&mintime="${mintime}"&maxtime="${maxtime}"&apikey=FAF7F2D0D8A143978CB7762CE35FCF99"
done
done

This yields the following:

curl: (7) couldn't connect to host 

curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

I reiterate that this script works perfectly with ENGLISH words, but I need to run this with foreign words so I would appreciate any help/guidance!
Thanks 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    I guess you need to urlencode any non-ascii characters.
    Try using curl --data-urlencode, rather than just curl.

    If just prepending the URL string won’t work, move parameters to data (read up on -d of curl) and still use --data-urlencode

    Here’s a working example:

    curl -G --data-urlencode "q=سلام" -d page=1 -d mitime=1244764800 -d maxtime=1245764800 -d apikey=FAF7F2D0D8A143978CB7762CE35FCF99 "http://otter.topsy.com/search.json"
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