google-cli

Copyright (C) 2008 Henri Hakkinen

Modified (2015) by Arun Prakash Jana engineerarun@gmail.com

google is a command line tool for doing Google searches from the terminal. For each result it shows the header, URL and text context. You can also navigate back and forth to fetch the next or previous results. On link-recognising terminal emulators like AltYo, use Ctrl-Left click to open the URL in your default browser.

Usage: google [OPTIONS] KEYWORDS...  
Options  
    -s N     start at the Nth result  
    -n N     shows N results (default 10)  
    -l LANG  display in language LANG, such as fi for Finnish  
    -C       disable color output  
    -j       open the first result in a web browser  
    -f MIME  search for specific file type  
    -t dN    time limit search [e.g. d5: 5 days, w5: 5 weeks, m5: 5 months, y5: 5 years]

Keys
    n, p     press 'n' or 'p' and Enter to navigate forward and backward

Examples:

1. Google hello world:

$ google hello world

2. To fetch 15 results updated within last 2 months, starting from the 3^rd result for the string cmdline utility in site tuxdiary.com, run:

$ google -n 15 -s 3 -t m2 cmdline utility site:tuxdiary.com

Report bugs to https://github.com/jarun/google-cli/issues

See the manual page for full details. Have fun!

Installation

google-cli requires Python 2.7.x or Python 3.x to work.

The following steps are tested on Ubuntu 14.04.3 x64_64:

$ git clone https://github.com/jarun/google-cli/  
$ cd google-cli  
$ sudo make install

To remove, run:

$ sudo make uninstall

News

25 Aug, 2015

• Add Python 3.x support (thanks Narrat)

22 Aug, 2015

• Add navigation support

17 Aug, 2015

• Support for time limited search
• Throw error in case of google error due to unusual activity from IP
• Support file type in search

16 Aug, 2015

• Use https
• Handle google redirections (error 302)
• Show full text snippet of search results
• Unicode in URL works
• Colour output by default, -C now disables it (toggled)
• The first URL now correctly opens in browser with -j switch
• Honour -j even if -n is not used and open the result in browser
• Fixed character encoding problem in URL e.g. double quotes (%22) changed to %2522
• Skip browser to show result in console for empty URL, e.g., first result of ‘define hello’

Note

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: https://github.com/henux ) in past year. I have created this independent repo for the project with the name google-cli. Would love to push the changes back to original repo if the author contacts. I retained the original copyright information.