Provided by: googler_4.3.2-1_all 
NAME
googler - Google from the command-line
SYNOPSIS
googler [OPTIONS] [KEYWORD [KEYWORD ...]]
DESCRIPTION
googler is a command-line tool to search Google (web, news, videos and site search) from
the terminal. Google site search works too. googler shows the title, URL and text context
for each result. Results are fetched in pages. Next or previous page navigation is
possible using keyboard shortcuts. Results are indexed and a result URL can be opened in a
browser using the index number. There is no configuration file as aliases serve the same
purpose for this utility. Supports sequential searches in a single instance.
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
* Search and option completion scripts for Bash, Zsh and Fish
* Fetch n results in a go, start at the n<sup>th</sup> 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
* Comprehensive documentation, man page with handy usage examples
* Minimal dependencies
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Show help text and exit.
-s, --start=N
Start at the Nth result.
-n, --count=N
Show N results (default 10).
-N, --news
Show results from news section.
-c, --tld=TLD
Country-specific search with top-level domain .TLD, e.g., in for India.
-l, --lang=LANG
Search for the language LANG, e.g., fi for Finnish.
-g, --geoloc=CC
Country-specific geolocation search with country code CC, e.g. 'in' for India.
Country codes are the same as top-level domains.
-x, --exact
Disable automatic spelling correction. Search exact keywords.
-C, --nocolor
Disable color output.
--colors=COLORS
Set output colors. Refer to the COLORS section below for details.
-j, --first, --lucky
Open the first result in a web browser; implies --noprompt. Feeling Lucky?
-t, --time=dN
Time limit search [h5 (5 hrs), d5 (5 days), w5 (5 weeks), m5 (5 months), y5 (5
years)].
-w, --site=SITE
Search a site using Google.
-e, --exclude=EXCLUDE
Exclude site from results.
--unfilter
Do not omit similar results.
-p, --proxy=PROXY
Tunnel traffic through an HTTP proxy. PROXY is of the form
[http://][user:password@]proxyhost[:port]. The proxy server must support HTTP
CONNECT tunneling and must not block port 443 for the relevant Google hosts. If a
proxy is not explicitly given, the https_proxy environment variable (if available)
is used instead.
--noua Disable user agent. Results are fetched faster.
--notweak
Disable TCP optimizations. Negotiate Transport Layer Security protocol instead of
forcing TLS 1.2 (on Python 3.4 and above). Should be used only in case of
connection issues.
--json Output in JSON format; implies --noprompt.
--url-handler=UTIL
Custom script or command-line utility to open urls with.
--show-browser-logs
Do not suppress browser output when opening result in browser; that is, connect
stdout and stderr of the browser to googler's stdout and stderr instead of
/dev/null. By default, browser output is suppressed (due to certain graphical
browsers spewing messages to console) unless the BROWSER environment variable is a
known text-based browser: elinks, links, lynx, w3m or www-browser.
--np, --noprompt
Perform search and exit; do not prompt for further interactions.
-u, --upgrade
Perform in-place self-upgrade. By default, the latest stable version is used.
However, the latest git master is used instead if --include-git is also supplied.
This mechanism is not available on Windows (including Cygwin), and if you installed
googler with a package manager, this mechanism may have been disabled by your
packager at packaging or install time.
--include-git
See --upgrade.
-v, --version
Show version number and exit.
-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 [index|range|a ...]
Open space-separated result indices, numeric ranges (sitelinks unsupported in
ranges) or all indices, if 'a' is specified, in the browser. Open the current
search in the browser, if no arguments.
O [index|range|a ...]
Works similar to key 'o', but tries to ignore text-based browsers (even if BROWSER
is set) and open links in a GUI browser.
g keywords
Initiate a new Google search for keywords with original options. This key should be
used to search omniprompt keys (including itself) and indices.
c index
Copy url to clipboard.
u Toggle url expansion.
q, ^D, double Enter
Exit googler.
? Show omniprompt help.
* Any other string initiates a new search with original options.
GOOGLER @T
googler @t is a convenient add-on to Google Site Search with unique keywords. While
googler has an integrated option to search a site, it could be simplified further with
aliases. The file googler_at (https://github.com/jarun/googler/blob/master/auto-
completion/googler_at/googler_at) contains a list of website search aliases. To source it,
run:
source googler_at
or
. googler_at
With googler @t, the following command searches Wikipedia for hexspeak:
@w hexspeak
Other googler options can be combined. The shell can be configured to be source the file
at start-up for further convenience.
All the aliases start with the @ symbol (hence the name googler @t) and there is minimum
chance they will conflict with any shell commands. Users can add new aliases to the file.
COLORS
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code for details.
ENVIRONMENT
BROWSER
Overrides the default browser. Ref: http://docs.python.org/library/webbrowser.html
GOOGLER_COLORS
Refer to the COLORS section.
DISABLE_PROMPT_COLOR
Force a plain omniprompt if you are facing issues with colors at the prompt.
https_proxy
Refer to the --proxy option.
DISABLE_URL_EXPANSION
Show the domain names in search results instead of the expanded URL.
EXAMPLES
1. Google hello world:
googler hello world
2. Fetch 15 results updated within the last 14 months, starting from the 3rd result for
the keywords jungle book in site imdb.com:
googler -n 15 -s 3 -t m14 -w imdb.com jungle book
3. Read recent news on gadgets:
googler -N gadgets
4. Fetch results on IPL cricket from Google India server in English:
googler -c in -l en IPL cricket
5. Search quoted text:
googler it\'s a \"beautiful world\" in spring
6. Search for a specific file type:
googler instrumental filetype:mp3
7. Disable automatic spelling correction, e.g. fetch results for googler instead of
google:
googler -x googler
8. I'm feeling lucky search:
googler -j leather jackets
9. Website specific search:
googler -w amazon.com -w ebay.com digital camera
Site specific search continues at omniprompt.
10. Alias to find definitions of words:
alias define='googler -n 2 define'
11. Look up n, p, o, O, q, g keywords or a result index at the omniprompt: as the
omniprompt recognizes these keys or index strings as commands, you need to prefix them
with g, e.g.,
g n
g g keywords
g 1
12. Input and output redirection:
googler -C hello world < input > output
Note that -C is required to avoid printing control characters (for colored output).
13. Pipe output:
googler -C hello world | tee output
14. Use a custom color scheme, e.g., one warm color scheme designed for Solarized Dark:
googler --colors bjdxxy google
GOOGLER_COLORS=bjdxxy googler google
15. Tunnel traffic through an HTTPS proxy, e.g., a local Privoxy instance listening on
port 8118:
googler --proxy localhost:8118 google
By default the environment variable https_proxy is used, if defined.
16. Quote multiple search keywords to auto-complete (using completion script):
googler 'hello w<TAB>
AUTHORS
Henri Hakkinen
Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com>
Zhiming Wang <zmwangx@gmail.com>
HOME
https://github.com/jarun/googler
REPORTING BUGS
https://github.com/jarun/googler/issues
LICENSE
Copyright © 2008 Henri Hakkinen
Copyright © 2015-2021 Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com>
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY,
to the extent permitted by law.