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Show HN: ddgr - search DuckDuckGo from your terminal

35 points by apjana 9y ago

apjana 9y ago
Features: * Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), custom color * Designed to deliver maximum readability at minimum space * Specify the number of search results to show per page * Navigate result pages from omniprompt, open URLs in browser * Search and option completion scripts for Bash, Zsh and Fish * DuckDuckGo Bang support (along with completion) * Open the first result directly in browser (as in I'm Feeling Ducky) * Non-stop searches: fire new searches at omniprompt without exiting * Keywords (e.g. `filetype:mime`, `site:somesite.com`) support * Limit search by time, specify region, disable safe search * HTTPS proxy support, Do Not Track set, optionally disable User Agent * Support custom url handler script or cmdline utility * Comprehensive documentation, man page with handy usage examples * Minimal dependencies
brudgers 9y ago
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- apjana 9y ago
  Thanks a lot for pointing out! I edited the submission just now.
sjmulder 9y ago
That looks slick! Good work. I haven't tried it out yet but i will. I also appreciate the (.1) manual, there are too many utilities that come without one.
- apjana 9y ago
  I am very particular about providing up-to-date man pages for all my utilities. Because I need them every now and then. ;)
hellcow 9y ago
Just installed, and it looks great. One minor thing: my terminal can't show the first page's results without me scrolling up after every search. I'd like to either have a reverse output (i.e. show the first result at the bottom, since it's most likely to be the one I want, and I shouldn't need to scroll to it), or a way to limit the result count, so I can fit it to my terminal window. Couldn't find either of those options in `--help`
- apjana 9y ago
  Thank you! Please use option `-n` to limit the number of results per page.
  - hellcow 9y ago
    The Ubuntu PPA version (1.0) doesn't appear to have an `-n` option. > ddgr: error: unrecognized arguments: -n
    - apjana 9y ago
      My pleasure! :)
    - apjana 9y ago
      The maintainer has updated the deb package today (we released v1.1 today). Please allow some time to get v1.1 mainline.
shmerl 9y ago
I suppose one in Debian testing is missing some features. Bangs don't work: ddgr --gb --np Hello World !w Falls into help message.
- apjana 9y ago
  The Debian version is v1.0. We released v1.1 today (with newer features). The update request has been raised. Please allow some time.
braywill 9y ago
This look cool! I have a small suggestion though. I think you should put an animated gif in the GitHub readme showing it in use. Maybe even use something like https://asciinema.org/ https://asciinema.org/.
- apjana 9y ago
  It was planned but I couldn't get the time to create it yet :(. If you don't mind, would you like to create and raise a PR? It would really help.
tandav 9y ago
one line alternative for your .zshrc ddg() { open "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=$1" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=$1" }
- apjana 9y ago
  Please take a look at the list of features.
t0mbstone 9y ago
Why "ddgr" instead of just "ddg"?
- apjana 9y ago
  So after taking all this trouble for you... want me to fall into copyright traps as well? ;)
megamindbrian2 9y ago
Why not search all search engines in parallel and compare the results?
calandoa 9y ago
Feature request: use arrow keys for result selection, in a "ncurses" way.

35 points by apjana 9y ago

Features: * Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), custom color * Designed to deliver maximum readability at minimum space * Specify the number of search results to show per page * Navigate result pages from omniprompt, open URLs in browser * Search and option completion scripts for Bash, Zsh and Fish * DuckDuckGo Bang support (along with completion) * Open the first result directly in browser (as in I'm Feeling Ducky) * Non-stop searches: fire new searches at omniprompt without exiting * Keywords (e.g. `filetype:mime`, `site:somesite.com`) support * Limit search by time, specify region, disable safe search * HTTPS proxy support, Do Not Track set, optionally disable User Agent * Support custom url handler script or cmdline utility * Comprehensive documentation, man page with handy usage examples * Minimal dependencies

brudgers 9y ago

If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

apjana 9y ago
Thanks a lot for pointing out! I edited the submission just now.

sjmulder 9y ago

That looks slick! Good work. I haven't tried it out yet but i will. I also appreciate the (.1) manual, there are too many utilities that come without one.

apjana 9y ago
I am very particular about providing up-to-date man pages for all my utilities. Because I need them every now and then. ;)

hellcow 9y ago

Just installed, and it looks great. One minor thing: my terminal can't show the first page's results without me scrolling up after every search. I'd like to either have a reverse output (i.e. show the first result at the bottom, since it's most likely to be the one I want, and I shouldn't need to scroll to it), or a way to limit the result count, so I can fit it to my terminal window. Couldn't find either of those options in `--help`

apjana 9y ago
Thank you! Please use option `-n` to limit the number of results per page.
- hellcow 9y ago
  The Ubuntu PPA version (1.0) doesn't appear to have an `-n` option. > ddgr: error: unrecognized arguments: -n
  - apjana 9y ago
    My pleasure! :)
  - apjana 9y ago
    The maintainer has updated the deb package today (we released v1.1 today). Please allow some time to get v1.1 mainline.

shmerl 9y ago

I suppose one in Debian testing is missing some features. Bangs don't work: ddgr --gb --np Hello World !w Falls into help message.

apjana 9y ago
The Debian version is v1.0. We released v1.1 today (with newer features). The update request has been raised. Please allow some time.

braywill 9y ago

This look cool! I have a small suggestion though. I think you should put an animated gif in the GitHub readme showing it in use. Maybe even use something like https://asciinema.org/ https://asciinema.org/.

apjana 9y ago
It was planned but I couldn't get the time to create it yet :(. If you don't mind, would you like to create and raise a PR? It would really help.

tandav 9y ago

one line alternative for your .zshrc ddg() { open "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=$1" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=$1" }

apjana 9y ago
Please take a look at the list of features.

t0mbstone 9y ago

Why "ddgr" instead of just "ddg"?

apjana 9y ago
So after taking all this trouble for you... want me to fall into copyright traps as well? ;)

megamindbrian2 9y ago

Why not search all search engines in parallel and compare the results?

calandoa 9y ago

Feature request: use arrow keys for result selection, in a "ncurses" way.