Wikipedia:Newspaper search engines by country

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These are country-specific search engines for newspapers. The purpose is to quickly search for reliable sources in newspapers within a country, which is useful for AfD debates, and when sourcing articles.

Creating a new search engine[edit]

Instructions for creating a search engine.

1. Pick a country and find a list of newspapers at Category:Lists of newspapers by country.
2. For each newspaper to include in the engine, make a note of its homepage URL e.g. http://nytimes.com
3. Log into Google Custom Search (create an account it's free).
4. Follow Google's instructions to create a new search engine. Add the newspaper website URLs noted in step 2.
5. Create HTML like below.
5. Host the HTML somewhere of your choosing.

Each country will have an HTML file like the below and will be hosted on a server somewhere of your choice.

Example search engines[edit]

Romania[edit]

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
        <head>
          <title>Romanian newspaper search engine</title>
        </head>
        <body>

 <h1><center>Romanian newspaper search engine</center></h1>

 <center>This is a country-specific newspaper search engine. Created for Wikipedia AfD and finding reliable sources.<br>
 For more see <A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Newspaper_search_engines_by_country">Newspaper Search Engines by Country</a> at Wikipedia.</center> <br>

 Newspapers: <a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%C4%83_de_ziare_din_Rom%C3%A2nia">List of Romanian newspapers</a> (ro.wikipedia.org) <br>
 Scope of search: All blue-linked newspapers in the "National" section. <br>
 Date updated: June 19, 2014 <br>

 <!-- Custom code created by Google Custom Search for Romanian newspapers -->

 <script>
  (function() {
    var cx = '008645567738449110639:ue3umtsghpi';
    var gcse = document.createElement('script');
    gcse.type = 'text/javascript';
    gcse.async = true;
    gcse.src = 'https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=' + cx;
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
    s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s);
  })();
 </script>
 <gcse:search></gcse:search>

 <!-- End Google Custom Search code -->

 </body>
 </html>

Kenya[edit]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
        <head>
          <title>Kenya newspaper search engine</title>
        </head>
        <body>

 <h1><center>Kenya newspaper search engine</center></h1>

 <center>This is a country-specific newspaper search engine. Created for Wikipedia AfD and finding reliable sources.<br>
 For more see <A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Newspaper_search_engines_by_country">Newspaper Search Engines by Country</a> at Wikipedia.</center> <br>

 Newspapers: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Kenya">List of Kenya newspapers</a> (en.wikipedia.org) <br>
 Scope of search: All blue-linked newspapers. <br>
 Date updated: June 20, 2014 <br>

 <!-- Custom code created by Google Custom Search for Romanian newspapers -->

<script>
  (function() {
    var cx = '008645567738449110639:npq4exlieek';
    var gcse = document.createElement('script');
    gcse.type = 'text/javascript';
    gcse.async = true;
    gcse.src = 'https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=' + cx;
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
    s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s);
  })();
</script>
<gcse:search></gcse:search>

 <!-- End Google Custom Search code -->

 </body>
 </html>

Iran[edit]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
        <head>
          <title>Iranian newspaper search engine</title>
        </head>
        <body>

 <h1><center>Iranian newspaper search engine</center></h1>

 <center>This is a country-specific newspaper search engine. Created for Wikipedia AfD and finding reliable sources.<br>
 For more see <A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Newspaper_search_engines_by_country">Newspaper Search Engines by Country</a> at Wikipedia.</center> <br>

 Newspaper list source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Iran">List of Iranian newspapers</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iranian_magazines">magazines</a> (en.wikipedia.org) <br>
 Scope of search: All blue-linked newspapers and magazines where available <br>
 Date updated: June 19, 2014 <br>

 <!-- Custom code created by Google Custom Search for Iranian newspapers -->

<script>
  (function() {
    var cx = '008645567738449110639:fr0cgo1vr-8';
    var gcse = document.createElement('script');
    gcse.type = 'text/javascript';
    gcse.async = true;
    gcse.src = 'https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=' + cx;
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
    s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s);
  })();
</script>
<gcse:search></gcse:search>

 <!-- End Google Custom Search code -->

 </body>
 </html>