Googler is a powerful tool for searching Google (web, news, videos, and site search) from the command line. It displays the title, snippet, and URL for each result, which can be opened directly in the browser from the terminal.
Initially, googler was created for managing servers without a graphical interface, but it quickly evolved into a very convenient and flexible utility that offers many more features. For example, you can specify the number of results to receive, restrict searches by time intervals, define aliases for searches on various websites, easily switch the search region, all in a user-friendly interface without ads and promotional URLs in the search results. Shell autocompletion ensures that you don't have to memorize any parameters.
Here are some interesting features you can try with googler (see project Wiki for details):
- output search results to the terminal and listen to them
- a 'clean' text view mode from the website without interface elements and ads
- search for and view (mpv) YouTube videos
- search for answers on StackOverflow directly from the terminal
What's new in this release:
- the -e / — exclude option to exclude a site from the results
- the -g / — geoloc option to specify geolocation
- the uuid1 parameter in the request has been replaced with uuid4
Source: linux.org.ru
