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For people that are looking for a nice search TUI, may I point you to Googler. It's made by the author of NNN and a couple other fantastic terminal tools. Highly recommend. It's amazing how clean you can make the interface

https://github.com/jarun/googler

Screenshot of Googler in action when it's nice and clean

https://snid.es/2021OCT/YG4OXAlXg4INZWPe.png

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Might be more apt to mention the same authors version of googler for duckduckgo, https://github.com/jarun/ddgr.

Those are both awesome. Are there any options to combine the two?

Maybe use the latter with !g

Oh, I guess I should be more specific. I want the results from both intertwined.

The top 5 of each, to make a top 10 (deduped).

For dev work I think this would be best.

I wonder how bash would handle that.

gotta quote to prevent shell expansion for bang iirc

I was about to say, the main issues with the DDG view is that it's all formatted in a single colour. One colour for links and one for titles is so much better on the eyes! This is a great project!

Didn't work for me so I followed the link to https://git.io/googler-no-results . It looks like it uses a screen scraper. That does not seem like a viable solution to me.

I'm a maintainer of googler (though I haven't put in much work for quite a while) and the author of the linked document. No, it doesn't use a screen scraper, and I don't know how you even got that idea.

Is this perhaps a semantics issue? The linked document mentions parsing HTML, and that layout updates can break it. How would you describe the way googler operates?

Edit: Would ”web scraping” be a more apt description?

Yes, it's a scraper extracting results from HTML. Which is very different from a screen scraper...

What's the use of a text interface if selecting a link leads you to a graphical browser?

You can use whatever textual browser if you want to.

What is NNN?

Appears to be a file manager

https://github.com/jarun/nnn

Aha. Thank you.

It looks like it doesnt respect $LINES (or something similar). On first try, the top 2 results scrolled off the screen.

It's a CLI, not a TUI. I put quite a bit of thought into that decision, and whether to integrate a pager. See [1]. The workarounds are (1) limit the number of results per page with -n <num>; (2) use the -r, --reverse option to show the top results last.

[1] https://github.com/jarun/googler/issues/281

It would be nice if there was a way to run a terminal command without auto-scrolling. So often I run something that spits out tons of error messages, only to have to scroll back up again to find out what happened.

Also check if your terminal supports Shift-PgUp/PgDn to scroll up/down a page.

Works in gnome terminal: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-terminal/stable/adv-keybo...

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