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Googler: Google Search, Site Search, News from the terminal

59 points by apjana 10y ago

apjana 10y ago
googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal. Homepage: https://github.com/jarun/googler https://github.com/jarun/googler Features: - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News - Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), custom color - Navigate result pages from omniprompt, open URLs in browser - Effortless keyword-based site search with googler @t add-on - Fetch n results in a go, start at the nth result - Disable automatic spelling correction and search exact keywords - Specify duration, country/domain (default: worldwide/.com), language - Google keywords (e.g. filetype:mime, site:somesite.com) support - Open the first result directly in browser (as in I'm Feeling Lucky) - Non-stop searches: fire new searches at omniprompt without exiting - HTTPS proxy, User Agent, TLS 1.2 (default) support - Man page with examples, completion scripts for Bash, Zsh and Fish - Minimal dependencies
- Dim25 10y ago
  Great product, thanks for sharing! Couple small suggestions: 1. If you press "f" on the first page of search result it returns to the terminal with "[ERROR] Already at the first page." - no need to interrupt session here. 2. Consider implementing history of previous 10 queries. Thanks
  - apjana 10y ago
    Would you mind starting starting a discussion here? https://github.com/jarun/googler/issues/87 https://github.com/jarun/googler/issues/87
dang 10y ago
We changed the URL from https://github.com/jarun/googler/releases/tag/v3.0 https://github.com/jarun/googler/releases/tag/v3.0 to the project's home page since it doesn't appear to have been discussed on HN before.
omurphy27 10y ago
Very cool! This looks perfect for the terminal mode in neovim or other editors that come with an embedded terminal.
- apjana 10y ago
  Thanks for the compliment!
adrianratnapala 10y ago
I like it, but it just reminds me of how much we missed by letting terminals stagnate through the 90's. You want those URLs that turn up to be clickable. Modern terminals help you a bit here. But in a parrallel universe (Emacs perhaps?), the terminal itself would display the graphics and have markup for links etc.
- Rumudiez 10y ago
  Surprisingly, we live in an alternate reality. That's called a browser, but the keyboard input is a little different -- you have to hit Ctrl/Cmd + L every time you want to type in a new location.
- bybjorn 10y ago
  That terminal is called Hyper and is written in Node.
  - eat_veggies 10y ago
    That's not a terminal running a browser, that's a browser running a terminal.
  - darpa_escapee 10y ago
    Sounds horrifying.
lcdoutlet 10y ago
Cool project! I currently use http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/ http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/ along with w3m and it works great but does not appear to be currently maintained. Would you have any interest in adding similar search options to your application? Query Wikipedia, HN or Stack Overflow.... directly?
- apjana 10y ago
  We introduced googler @t in the latest release to handle that to some extent using Google Site Search. Yes, it would be fun to support direct site searches but it would also be quite difficult to maintain it. I did give it a shot last week and found the search strings and result patterns of probably every other site different. Just imagine keeping up with changes in the URLs! For a while I thought "why not launch the URLs directly in the browser" to keep it simpler? But then googler wouldn't remain a fun terminal utility to develop anymore. ;)
Animats 10y ago
It's like Lynx, but specialized to Google.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
lostphilosopher 10y ago
Neat. Installed via Homebrew, I'll share thoughts if anything comes up.
MortenK 10y ago
Do you use a Google api or do you send http request and scrape the response html? As I understand the gogle search api got deprecated some years back. I am a few days from my laptop so can't properly read it for myself :-) thanks!
- apjana 10y ago
  No APIs here. Please refer to https://github.com/jarun/googler#notes https://github.com/jarun/googler#notes, point 2.

59 points by apjana 10y ago

googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal. Homepage: https://github.com/jarun/googler https://github.com/jarun/googler Features: - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News - Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), custom color - Navigate result pages from omniprompt, open URLs in browser - Effortless keyword-based site search with googler @t add-on - Fetch n results in a go, start at the nth result - Disable automatic spelling correction and search exact keywords - Specify duration, country/domain (default: worldwide/.com), language - Google keywords (e.g. filetype:mime, site:somesite.com) support - Open the first result directly in browser (as in I'm Feeling Lucky) - Non-stop searches: fire new searches at omniprompt without exiting - HTTPS proxy, User Agent, TLS 1.2 (default) support - Man page with examples, completion scripts for Bash, Zsh and Fish - Minimal dependencies

Dim25 10y ago
Great product, thanks for sharing! Couple small suggestions: 1. If you press "f" on the first page of search result it returns to the terminal with "[ERROR] Already at the first page." - no need to interrupt session here. 2. Consider implementing history of previous 10 queries. Thanks
- apjana 10y ago
  Would you mind starting starting a discussion here? https://github.com/jarun/googler/issues/87 https://github.com/jarun/googler/issues/87

dang 10y ago

We changed the URL from https://github.com/jarun/googler/releases/tag/v3.0 https://github.com/jarun/googler/releases/tag/v3.0 to the project's home page since it doesn't appear to have been discussed on HN before.

omurphy27 10y ago

Very cool! This looks perfect for the terminal mode in neovim or other editors that come with an embedded terminal.

apjana 10y ago
Thanks for the compliment!

adrianratnapala 10y ago

I like it, but it just reminds me of how much we missed by letting terminals stagnate through the 90's. You want those URLs that turn up to be clickable. Modern terminals help you a bit here. But in a parrallel universe (Emacs perhaps?), the terminal itself would display the graphics and have markup for links etc.

Rumudiez 10y ago
Surprisingly, we live in an alternate reality. That's called a browser, but the keyboard input is a little different -- you have to hit Ctrl/Cmd + L every time you want to type in a new location.
bybjorn 10y ago
That terminal is called Hyper and is written in Node.
- eat_veggies 10y ago
  That's not a terminal running a browser, that's a browser running a terminal.
- darpa_escapee 10y ago
  Sounds horrifying.

lcdoutlet 10y ago

Cool project! I currently use http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/ http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/ along with w3m and it works great but does not appear to be currently maintained. Would you have any interest in adding similar search options to your application? Query Wikipedia, HN or Stack Overflow.... directly?

apjana 10y ago
We introduced googler @t in the latest release to handle that to some extent using Google Site Search. Yes, it would be fun to support direct site searches but it would also be quite difficult to maintain it. I did give it a shot last week and found the search strings and result patterns of probably every other site different. Just imagine keeping up with changes in the URLs! For a while I thought "why not launch the URLs directly in the browser" to keep it simpler? But then googler wouldn't remain a fun terminal utility to develop anymore. ;)

Animats 10y ago

It's like Lynx, but specialized to Google.

deleted 10y ago
[deleted]

lostphilosopher 10y ago

Neat. Installed via Homebrew, I'll share thoughts if anything comes up.

MortenK 10y ago

Do you use a Google api or do you send http request and scrape the response html? As I understand the gogle search api got deprecated some years back. I am a few days from my laptop so can't properly read it for myself :-) thanks!

apjana 10y ago
No APIs here. Please refer to https://github.com/jarun/googler#notes https://github.com/jarun/googler#notes, point 2.