Googler, a command line tool for searching Google

Nowadays I doubt very much that someone who knows that the internet exists can say that they have not heard of the Google search engine. This is one if not the best known of the engines and used that we can find on the internet. For this reason we will see in this article how to install in a simple way Googler.

Many people around the world primarily use Google search through the graphical interface of their desktop web browser. However, we command-line lovers who are always looking for a way to stay glued to the terminal for our daily system-related tasks, we face difficulties in accessing the google search from command line. This is where Googler is going to be very useful to us.

Googler is a powerful command line tool python based. This will help us to access Google (Web and News) and Google Site Search from the terminal of our Ubuntu. This program is not exactly a web browser for the terminal, although you can make it work with a browser for the command line. What this program is going to do is show us the Google results in text format. If you are a lover of the terminal and the linux world, you will surely like to try "Googler".

The result that we will obtain after a search will show us the title, the URL, as well as the summary of each result. As I've said before this program is not exactly a browser, since the results will have to be opened directly in a desktop browser if you do not configure a text browser for the terminal. The results are obtained in pages through which we can move using «n»(Next page) and«p»(Previous page). Before we proceed to install Googler on Ubuntu, let's take a look at some of its features.

Googler Features

Googler was initially written to serve servers without a graphical environment. You can make it work with a text-based browser. It will give us many options, such as searching for any number of results or starting searches at any position. In addition, it will allow us to limit the search, define aliases to Google search, change domain easily ... all this in a very clean interface and without ads.

We must clarify that Googler is not affiliated with Google no way.

Some other features of Googler is that it offers us access to Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News. It's fast and clean with custom colors. This application will allow us to navigate between the search results pages from omniprompt (?).

Users can disable automatic spell checking and search for exact keywords. It supports the limitation of the search by attributes such as duration, country / domain specific search (by default it will do it with .com) and language preferences.

Also this app supports google search keywords in the form of filetype: mime, site: somesite.com, and many others.

It allows non-stop searches. What has been starting new searches in omniprompt without leaving the program.
This application supports HTTPS proxy services.

This program is installed with a manual page that includes examples and shell completion scripts for Bash. You can check all the options and features that this program offers us through man.

Install Googler on Ubuntu

We can install this application in our Ubuntu and Linux Mint by opening a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and writing in it the following sequence of commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:twodopeshaggy/jarun && sudo apt update && sudo apt install googler

How to use Googler

Using it is as simple as typing a search term using the following format:

googler "concepto a buscar"

You can find a more detailed guide on their page GitHub. If while using Googler you detect an error, you can report it in the section of errors.

Uninstall Googler

Removing this application from our system is as simple as typing the following command in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T):

sudo apt remove googler

To delete the repository from our team, in the same terminal we will write:

sudo add-apt-repository –-remove ppa:twodopeshaggy/jarun