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.
googler was initially written to cater to headless servers without X. You can integrate it with a text-based browser. However, it has grown into a very handy and flexible utility that delivers much more. For example, fetch any number of results or start anywhere, limit search by any duration, define aliases to google search any number of websites, switch domains easily... all of this in a very clean interface without ads or stray URLs. The shell completion scripts make sure you don't need to remember any options.
googler isn't affiliated to Google in any way.
Demo: https://asciinema.org/a/85019
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