NOTE: This branch fork from 'https://github.com/jarun/googler', we use the
article extractor( newspaper, you must install it ) to extract and print the extractor article of the index. In omniprompt keys, we add thecto show current page search results andv indextoextract article from the result page of the index
googler is a power tool to Google (Web & News) and Google Site Search from the command-line. It shows the title, URL and abstract for each result, which can be directly opened in a browser from the terminal. Results are fetched in pages (with page navigation). Supports sequential searches in a single googler instance.
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- Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News
- Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), custom color
- Open result URLs (or the actual search) in browser
- Navigate search result pages from omniprompt
- Fetch n results in a go, start at the nth result
- Disable automatic spelling correction and search exact keywords
- Limit search by duration, country/domain specific search (default: .com), language preference
- Supports Google search keywords like
filetype:mime,site:somesite.cometc. - Optionally 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 support
- Man page with examples, shell completion scripts for Bash, Zsh and Fish
- Minimal dependencies
googler requires Python 3.3 or later. Only the latest patch release of each minor version is supported.
To download this repository, you may either clone via git:
$ git clone https://github.com/jarun/googler/
or download a source code archive: the latest stable release or the de 8000 velopment version.
To install to the default location (/usr/local):
$ sudo make install
To remove googler and associated docs, run
$ sudo make uninstall
PREFIX is supported, in case you want to install to a different location.
googler is a standalone executable. From the containing directory:
$ ./googler
Shell completion scripts for Bash, Fish and Zsh can be found in respective subdirectories of auto-completion/. Please refer to your shell's manual for installation instructions.
googler is also available on
- AUR for Arch Linux;
- Fossies;
- Homebrew for OS X, or its Linux fork, Linuxbrew;
- Debian Sid.
If you are on a Debian (including Ubuntu) based system visit the latest stable release and download the.debpackage. To install, run:
$ sudo dpkg -i googler-$version-all.deb
Please substitute $version with the appropriate package version.
usage: googler [-h] [-s N] [-n N] [-N] [-c TLD] [-l LANG] [-x] [-C]
[--colors COLORS] [-j] [-t dN] [-w SITE] [-p PROXY] [--json] [--noua]
[--np] [-d]
[KEYWORD [KEYWORD ...]]
Google from the command-line.
positional arguments:
KEYWORD search keywords
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s N, --start N start at the Nth result
-n N, --count N show N results (default 10)
-N, --news show results from news section
-c TLD, --tld TLD country-specific search with top-level domain .TLD,
e.g., 'in' for India. Ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_domains
-l LANG, --lang LANG display in language LANG
-x, --exact disable automatic spelling correction
-C, --nocolor disable color output
--colors COLORS set output colors (see man page for details)
-j, --first, --lucky open the first result in a web browser; implies
--noprompt
-t dN, --time dN time limit search [h5 (5 hrs), d5 (5 days), w5 (5
weeks), m5 (5 months), y5 (5 years)]
-w SITE, --site SITE search a site using Google
-p PROXY, --proxy PROXY
tunnel traffic through an HTTPS proxy (HOST:PORT)
--noua disable user agent
--json output in JSON format; implies --noprompt
--np, --noprompt perform search and exit, do not prompt for further
interactions
-d, --debug enable debugging
omniprompt keys:
n, p fetch the next or previous set of search results
index open the result corresponding to index in browser
f jump to the first page
o open the current search in browser
g keywords initiate a new Google search for 'keywords' with original options
q, ^D, double Enter exit googler
? show omniprompt help
* any other string initiates a new search with original options
googler doesn't have any! This is to retain the speed of the utility and avoid OS-specific differences. Users can enjoy the advantages of config files using aliases (with the exception of the color scheme, which can be additionally customized through an environment variable; see Colors). There's no need to memorize options.
For example, the following alias for bash/zsh/ksh/etc.
alias g='googler -n 7 -c ru -l ru'
fetches 7 results from the Google Russia server, with preference towards results in Russian.
The alias serves both the purposes of using config files:
- Persistent settings: when the user invokes
g, it expands to the preferred settings. - Override settings: thanks to the way Python
argparseworks,googleris written so that the settings in alias are completely overridden by any options passed from cli. So when the same user runsg -l de -c de -n 12 hello world, 12 results are returned from the Google Germany server, with preference towards results in German.
googler allows you to customize the color scheme via a six-letter string, reminiscent of BSD LSCOLORS. The six letters represent the colors of
- indices
- titles
- URLs
- metadata/publishing info (Google News only)
- abstracts
- prompts
respectively. The six-letter string is passed in either as the argument to the --colors option, or as the value of the environment variable GOOGLER_COLORS.
We offer the following colors/styles:
| Letter | Color/Style |
|---|---|
| a | black |
| b | red |
| c | green |
| d | yellow |
| e | blue |
| f | magenta |
| g | cyan |
| h | white |
| i | bright black |
| j | bright red |
| k | bright green |
| l | bright yellow |
| m | bright blue |
| n | bright magenta |
| o | bright cyan |
| p | bright white |
| A-H | bold version of the lowercase-letter color |
| I-P | bold version of the lowercase-letter bright color |
| x | normal |
| X | bold |
| y | reverse video |
| Y | bold reverse video |
The default colors string is GKlgxy, which stands for
- bold bright cyan indices
- bold bright green titles
- bright yellow URLs
- cyan metadata/publishing info
- normal abstracts
- reverse video prompts
Note that
- Bright colors (implemented as
\x1b[90m–\x1b[97m) may not be available in all color-capable terminal emulators; - Some terminal emulators draw bold text in bright colors instead;
- Some terminal emulators only distinguish between bold and bright colors via a default-off switch.
Please consult the manual of your terminal emulator as well as the Wikipedia article on ANSI escape sequences.
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Google hello world:
$ googler hello world -
Fetch 15 results updated within last 14 months, starting from the 3rd result for the string cmdline utility in site tuxdiary.com:
$ googler -n 15 -s 3 -t m14 -w tuxdiary.com cmdline utility -
Read recent news on gadgets:
$ googler -N gadgets -
Fetch results on IPL cricket from Google India server in English:
$ googler -c in -l en IPL cricket -
Search quoted text e.g. it's a "beautiful world" in spring:
$ googler it\'s a \"beautiful world\" in spring -
Search for a specific file type:
$ googler instrumental filetype:mp3 -
Disable automatic spelling correction, e.g. fetch results for
googlerinstead ofgoogle:$ googler -x googler -
I'm feeling lucky search:
$ googler -j leather jackets -
Website specific search:
$ googler -w tuxdiary.com hello world
Site specific search continues at omniprompt. Use the g key to run a regular Google search.
10. Alias to find definitions of words:
alias define='googler -n 2 define'
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Look up
n,p,o,q,g keywordsor a result index at the omniprompt: As the omniprompt recognizesn,p,o,q,gor index strings as commands, you need to prefix them withg, e.g.,g n g g keywords g 1 -
Input and output redirection:
$ googler -C hello world < input > outputNote that
-Cis required to avoid printing control characters (for colored output). -
Pipe output:
$ googler -C hello world | tee output -
Use a custom color scheme, e.g., a warm color scheme designed for Solarized Dark (screenshot):
$ googler --colors bjdxxy google $ GOOGLER_COLORS=bjdxxy googler google -
Tunnel traffic through an HTTPS proxy, e.g., a local Privoxy instance listening on port 8118:
$ googler --proxy localhost:8118 google -
More help:
$ googler -h $ man googler
- In some instances
googlermay show fewer number of results than you expect, e.g., if you fetch a single result (-n 1) it may not show any results. The reason is Google shows some Google service (e.g. Youtube) results, map locations etc. depending on your geographical data, whichgooglertries to omit. In some cases Google (the web-service) doesn't show exactly 10 results (default) on a search. We chose to omit these results as far as possible. While this can be fixed, it would need more processing (and more time). You can just navigate forward to fetch the next set of results. - With user agent disabled, results are fetched faster (ref: PR #117). However, abstracts for some Google service (e.g. YouTube, Google Books) results don't show. This can be fixed by handling multiple inner tags. User agent is enabled by default and I'll let this pass as long as I don't see an elegant pull request on this.
- Copyright (C) 2008 Henri Hakkinen
- Copyright (C) 2015-2016 Arun Prakash Jana
- Zhiming Wang
Special thanks to jeremija, shaggytwodope and Narrat for their contributions and efforts in spreading googler.
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Initially I raised a pull request but I could see that the last change was made 7 years earlier. In addition, there is no GitHub activity from the original author Henri Hakkinen in past year. I have created this independent repo for the project with the name
googler. I retained the original copyright information. -
Google provides a search API which returns the results in JSON format. However, as per my understanding from the official docs, the API issues the queries against an existing instance of a custom search engine and is limited by 100 search queries per day for free. In addition, I have reservations in paying if they ever change their plan or restrict the API in other ways. So I refrained from coupling with Google plans & policies or exposing my trackable personal custom search API key and identifier for the public. I retained the browser-way of doing it by fetching html, which is a open and free specification.