Comments on: Search google (and update twitter) from the command line

By: twitter

twitter — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:20:03 +0000

You should do a blog about how one can capture a. Fine as hell band dudes heart.

By: aery

aery — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:47:47 +0000

Goosh is another command line interface for Google search. So , ig you bassically love command line and cant leave windows, goosh should be the ideal choice for you.

By: Avinash

Avinash — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:45:46 +0000

Quitter a command line twitter client, can also be used for updating twitter from command line.

By: metaeuphoria

metaeuphoria — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:35:37 +0000

I recently added surfraw to cygwin and in my linux installations. Works great with links terminal browser for a number of searches. Plus less typing.
http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/

For twitter, I was able to get termtter to work in cygwin. http://termtter.org. I use it nearly everyday now. Didn’t get it to work in ubuntu for some reason; might be how I installed ruby. A ghacks tutorial would be great. :)

By: k

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:28:41 +0000

It’s not obvious why “space[0-9]” causes a bug but I guess it has something to do with the commands google search runs eg. if you search for 1+1 it runs the calculator function. Must be something to do with that.

By: JohnDoe

JohnDoe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:18:51 +0000

word. thanks k. makes plenty of sense now (duh!), didn’t even think of that

By: k

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:10:51 +0000

The reason is because your query string “?q=Windows 7″. For some reason it screws up google search. It must be some special keyword to do with numbers if you do “?q=Windows 1″ the same thing occurs. You can get around it by doing “?q=Windows%207″, %20 is the hex value for space. You can use sed to convert lots of spaces something like:

echo “http://www.google.com/search?q=Windows 7 is what I want” | sed ‘s/ /%20/g’

then you could pipe that to curl using xargs by adding: | xargs -n1 curl -A mozilla

Hope this helps

By: k

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:41:10 +0000

If you paste the output minus any user/password information something like pastebin I can have a look at it

By: JohnDoe

JohnDoe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:05:23 +0000

whoops, forgot to add my question to that above
..
if i do it w/o the html2text cmd, it spits the html out of course, html2text isn’t converting something properly? (yes it’s installed).

Any idears?

By: JohnDoe

JohnDoe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:02:26 +0000

curl -A firefox http://www.google.com/search?q=’Windows 7′ | html2text -width 80
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1350 100 1350 0 0 53143 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 1318k

Google Error

****** Bad Request ******
Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request.

By: jack

jack — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:48:14 +0000

@k: Oh yeah….’doh on my part. ;-) thanks for that.

By: k

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:34:00 +0000

you could always do -o /dev/null on the update command to stop the output from showing