Sunday, July 3, 2022

How to Search Google from the Command Line

Probe the world's most popular search engine without leaving the terminal

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/11/best-command-line-tools-ubuntu-linux

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/08/search-google-from-the-command-line

How to Search Google from the Command Line

By Joey Sneddon · Updated 27 August 2020

Got a hankering to search Google from the command line? If so you’re going to love this nifty terminal tool.

It’s called Googler and (as you can probably guess) it’s a command-line tool that lets you search Google (the search engine) from a terminal emulator app of your choice.

You’re not limited to regular Google web searches either. This python-based tool also lets you use Google site search, and can probe Google News for content that matches your chosen query(s).

As a search tool the way search results are presented to you is important, and thankfully is one area where this app really delivers.

When you search from the command-line using Googler you’re presented with a list of search results that show the title, URL and a short text snippet. You can quickly open any result in a web browser by entering the number that corresponds to the result you want to read.

A stack of other search options and parameters are available for more advanced users. These let you search for an exact phrase, search a specific version or Google, and/or narrow down search results based on a specific time period.

Now, I’m not for one moment suggesting that Googler (or command line search in general) is the most practical way to find stuff on the web. It’s not. But it is novel, inventive, and, for those who spend a lot of time staring down a blinking underscore at the command line, pretty handy in a pinch.

Search Google from a Terminal

Googler was created to let people make web searches on a headless server lacking an X session, where it could integrate neatly with a text-based browser. In such situations it provides a fully immersive command-line web search experience.

But the inherent niftiness of the tool, combined with the novelty of being able to Google from the terminal, has seen it pick up an army of admirers on the regular desktop too — and a boat load of new features to boot.

You can limit the number of results; define an alias to perform site searches (e.g., omgubuntu plank themes; use a specific locale version; and, well, a bunch more besides!

I must stress that Googler is not affiliated, endorsed or supported by Google itself. It’s an unofficial, unrelated, third-party project. It is open-source. Code is available on Github.

Install Googler on Ubuntu

To install a working version of Googler on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and above you just need to download the latest release directly from Github:

Download Googler 1.4.2 for Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit)

Once the installer above is fully downloaded go ahead and open it using Ubuntu Software. Follow the on-screen prompts to install Googler on your system.

Once installed, Googler is immediately available, ready for you to use. To get started pop open your favourite terminal emulator and punch in the single command:

googler

Googler will then prompt you to enter a search query. Quickly type a phrase or two and hit the return key. The app will print a list of matching results.

Want to go further?

Google CLI Search Options

Googler may be effortlessly simple to use, but for the times you need more finesse and control over search results there are a stack of options ready to assist.

You can type googler --help to see a full list of available arguments, options, and flags. Or, if you’re lazy, you can see them in this image:

The ones I find most useful are --count and --time which (shock) lets you limit how many search results you see, and the time period from which they’re chosen.

So, for example, I I want to see the top 4 results about hamsters, limited to things published in the last 5 hours, I run:

googler --count 4 --time h5 hamsters

google command line search using Googler on Ubuntu

Simple enough, isn’t it?!

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Saturday, January 8, 2022

Kali Linux help on how to Use & Search Wikipedia on a Linux Terminal by using a command by Ranger Smyth 08 Jan, 2022.

I will post up my findings after doing some research into the package and to test it against ease of use.

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Taken Directally from https://helpdeskgeek.com/linux-tips/10-cool-linux-terminal-commands-you-have-to-try/

Use & Search Wikipedia In Linux Terminal

Many people use Wikipedia to search through its vast database of knowledge for information. Google often pushes Wikipedia toward the top of search engine results to help users find what they are looking for quickly.

Linux users can save a lot of time by accessing Wikipedia in the terminal. Use Wikit to get answers to your questions quickly inside your Linux distribution.

The Wikit Linux terminal command line will show users summaries of search topics from Wikipedia. Start by installing Node.js on your machine.

Run the following commands on Mint systems, Ubuntu, or Debian:

sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install npm

To install Wikit, run the following simple command:

sudo npm install wikit -g

After you have installed Wikit, get Wikipedia summaries by running the following command:

wikit <search query>

Note that you can also use multi-word queries.

Taken directally from https://github.com/KorySchneider/wikit

wikit on GitHub

A command line program for getting Wikipedia summaries easily.

Installation

1. $ npm i wikit -g

. or Git Clone to you system

2. $git clone https://github.com/KorySchneider/wikit.git

readme.md

Usage

Syntax: $ wikit <query> [-flags]

Quotes are not required for multi-word queries.

To change the default language, edit ~/.config/configstore/wikit.json.

Examples

$ wikit wikipedia

$ wikit empire state building

$ wikit linux -b

$ wikit jugo -l es --link -a

Flags

Flag	Description
`--lang langCode` `-l langCode`	Specify language; `langCode` is an HTML ISO language code
`--all` `-a`	Print all sections of the article (the full page). Recommended to pipe into a reader e.g. `less`
`--line num`	Set line wrap length to `num`
`--link`	Print a link to the full article after the summary
`-b`	Open full Wikipedia article in default browser
`--browser browser`	Open full Wikipedia article in specific `browser`
`-d`	Open disambiguation CLI menu
`-D`	Open disambiguation page in browser
`--version` `-v`	Print installed version number
`--name` `-n`	Print the name of the program: wikit

Output

The output will be the paragraphs of the wikipedia article before the table of contents. Line length is neatly wrapped based on your terminal's window size, with a max of about 80 characters. For example:

$ wikit arch linux
 Arch Linux (or Arch /ˈɑːrtʃ/) is a Linux distribution for computers based on x86-64
 architectures. Arch Linux is composed predominantly of free and open-source software,
 and supports community involvement. The design approach of the development team
 follows the KISS principle ("keep it simple, stupid") as the general guideline,
 and focuses on elegance, code correctness, minimalism and simplicity, and expects
 the user to be willing to make some effort to understand the system's operation.
 A package manager written specifically for Arch Linux, pacman, is used to install,
 remove and update software packages. Arch Linux uses a rolling release model, such
 that a regular system update is all that is needed to obtain the latest Arch software;
 the installation images released by the Arch team are simply up-to-date snapshots
 of the main system components. Arch Linux has comprehensive documentation in the
 form of a community wiki, called the ArchWiki. The wiki is widely regarded among
 the Linux community and ecosystem for often having the most recent information on
 a specific topic and being applicable beyond Arch Linux.

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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Kali Linux help with installing eDEX-UI v2.2.8 hackers terminal !! This will impress the friends and hence I call it a Linux Magic Trick by Ranger Smyth, 28 Dec 2021.

eDEX-UI v2.2.8

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Latest news about eDEX. It seems that the time has come for this package to go into retirement. But, we can still download it and have it to work for us.

Installed in the package are a few different themes, Tron, Matrix and a few others.

https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui/releases/download/v2.2.8/eDEX-UI-Linux-x86_64.AppImage Download the 64 Bit package for Linux.

Get all the other packages for different OS here edex-ui/releases/tag/v2.2.8

2.2 Patch 8

edex-ui · GitHub Topics · GitHub

How to install and run eDEX-UI

Get all the packages for different OS here edex-ui/releases/tag/v2.2.8

1. Download the package on to you computer.

It normally saves in the Download folder.

2. After download, right click on the file and go to permissions.

3. Make sure all options are read and write for all.

4. Most important to click the check mark 'Make this app executable'

5. Close the window and double click on the file.

6. It should take a few seconds for it to open.

7. Tell your friends that this is a CIA terminal and as they do not use it any-more, its available on the darknet.

Thank you and well done for making it this far, like me you have a long road of learning ahead of you. Now the packages are installed, it's time now to start to learn how to use them, being honest I have installed many packages but do not know how to use them. So a plan of learning one a day will help me to catch up.

What did we learn today? We learnt how to install an app_image file from GitHub and how to make the file executable.

Be safe,

Ranger.

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