searchnow command line search tool

Searchnow allows you to perform a quick web search or get instant info from various APIs directly from the command line.

Make

make

Use searchnow:

searchnow <search_term> <search_engine> <max_results>

config.json

config.json should be placed into the app directory. Use it to include/exclude particular fields from result.

Supported engines:

• Google. Make sure you comply with https://console.developers.google.com/tos?id=universal

  This project utilizes Google Custom Search JSON/Atom API

  Place your tokens into the .tokens file in the app directory. You do need to specify google.apikey - it is your personal app key to use Custom Search API.

  Also you do need to create a specific engine inside of the Google Control Panel and to provide engine id in google.engine token. So your .tokens file will be look like this:

  google.apikey=<your_api_key_associated_with_custom_search_api>
  google.engine=<search_engine_id>
  

  Command line value: google.

• StackOverflow. Performs search for the questions from stackoverflow.com via Stack-on-Go. Command line value: so.

• Hacker News. Allows fetching of the stories from Hacker News via Hacker News Api. Supported terms: newstories, topstories, beststories, askstories, jobstories. Command line value: hn.

• ipvigilante.com. Retrieves location by IP via ipvigilante.com Api. Command line value: ip_loc.

• Other engines (might be added soon).

Command line arguments:

• search_term (required) Term to search for search engines or action/expression for other engines.
• search_engine (optional) Search engine, "google" is default one.
• max_resuts (optional) Limit a number of results. Default value is 5.

Samples:

searchnow "go: unknown subcommand" google 10
searchnow "factorial" so 9
searchnow "newstories" hn
searchnow "8.8.8.8" ip_loc

License:

Apache 2.0