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Show HN: A CLI for Google distributed as a ruby gem

34 points by Kerrick 14y ago

lwm 14y ago
holllllllly smokes....will have some fun with this!
FabPelletier 14y ago
Doesn't work really well with RVM. I can see the result list, but can't open one because the gem exits with a segmentation fault on nokogiri.
sparknlaunch12 14y ago
Cool! Thanks for sharing. How long did it take you to develop?
- Kerrick 14y ago
  According to my commit log, 12 hours and 42 minutes.
CharlesPal 14y ago
Nice work!
darkstalker 14y ago
doesn't work with ruby 1.8, undefined method 'require_relative'
ronreiter 14y ago
I'm sorry, but didn't Google deprecate the Google Web Search API two years ago?
- deelowe 14y ago
  Yes. https://developers.google.com/web-search/ https://developers.google.com/web-search/
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]
- Kerrick 14y ago
  It is deprecated, but the replacement API requires you to have an API key and charges you for more than 100 searches per day. I'm using the deprecated API until it is discontinued, then I'll release a new version of the gem that will, unfortunately, require you to sign up for an API key.
christiangenco 14y ago
This is a fantastic idea! Has some issues that I'll be posting to the github page. Edit: upon further investigation, the error seems to be with parsing the specific page http://www.test.com http://www.test.com (here's the full trace: http://pastebin.com/Lqedy4eN http://pastebin.com/Lqedy4eN ).
- Kerrick 14y ago
  Thanks! Fixed the issue in v1.0.6. One of the libraries I was using, reverse markdown, couldn't handle strings that aren't UTF-8.
Tyr42 14y ago
So sad it's only for 1.9
obilgic 14y ago
Show "how you present the results" instead of showing the man page on your landing page.
- Kerrick 14y ago
  Hmm, good idea. Should I put screenshots up, or a bit of the plaintext output?
nasmorn 14y ago
This really needs to parse the calculator results as well. That would be so useful.
- vasco 14y ago
  echo "1+2" | bc No need to go online for math. Unless that wasn't what you meant at all in which case, what did you mean?
  - semanticist 14y ago
    "371633 hours in years" is a Google search I did earlier, because it was quicker than working out the appropriate divisors. That could be done locally too, but I don't know what tool would do it and if it's installed on my computer by default.
    - vasco 14y ago
      Just for completeness sake: units '371633 hours' 'years'

34 points by Kerrick 14y ago

lwm 14y ago

holllllllly smokes....will have some fun with this!

Doesn't work really well with RVM. I can see the result list, but can't open one because the gem exits with a segmentation fault on nokogiri.

sparknlaunch12 14y ago

Cool! Thanks for sharing. How long did it take you to develop?

Kerrick 14y ago
According to my commit log, 12 hours and 42 minutes.

CharlesPal 14y ago

Nice work!

darkstalker 14y ago

doesn't work with ruby 1.8, undefined method 'require_relative'

ronreiter 14y ago

I'm sorry, but didn't Google deprecate the Google Web Search API two years ago?

deelowe 14y ago
Yes. https://developers.google.com/web-search/ https://developers.google.com/web-search/
deleted 14y ago
[deleted]
Kerrick 14y ago
It is deprecated, but the replacement API requires you to have an API key and charges you for more than 100 searches per day. I'm using the deprecated API until it is discontinued, then I'll release a new version of the gem that will, unfortunately, require you to sign up for an API key.

christiangenco 14y ago

This is a fantastic idea! Has some issues that I'll be posting to the github page. Edit: upon further investigation, the error seems to be with parsing the specific page http://www.test.com http://www.test.com (here's the full trace: http://pastebin.com/Lqedy4eN http://pastebin.com/Lqedy4eN ).

Kerrick 14y ago
Thanks! Fixed the issue in v1.0.6. One of the libraries I was using, reverse markdown, couldn't handle strings that aren't UTF-8.

Tyr42 14y ago

So sad it's only for 1.9

obilgic 14y ago

Show "how you present the results" instead of showing the man page on your landing page.

Kerrick 14y ago
Hmm, good idea. Should I put screenshots up, or a bit of the plaintext output?

nasmorn 14y ago

This really needs to parse the calculator results as well. That would be so useful.

vasco 14y ago
echo "1+2" | bc No need to go online for math. Unless that wasn't what you meant at all in which case, what did you mean?
- semanticist 14y ago
  "371633 hours in years" is a Google search I did earlier, because it was quicker than working out the appropriate divisors. That could be done locally too, but I don't know what tool would do it and if it's installed on my computer by default.
  - vasco 14y ago
    Just for completeness sake: units '371633 hours' 'years'