Errbot VS googler

This reminds me of a time 10 years ago when the company IRC channel had a bot that was able to interpret python and output the result. We got nerd-sniped for a few hours trying to make the bot interpret its own output as input again. Fun times.

This ChatGPT thing looks like a box that has been opened and cannot be closed again.

Btw, that chatbot from my anecdote eventually evolved into errbot. https://github.com/errbotio/errbot

So I started working on a bot that would live in modchat, able to help us with whatever we needed and something that could be extended in the future. (For those interested in the tech side of things, we originally started by building on the errbot platform before eventually building a brand new system from scratch that better fit our needs.) As we built, we needed a name for the new bot; a few different names got thrown around, but we eventually settled on Bubbles.

Interesting Project.

I'm sure you're aware of Errbot (https://github.com/errbotio/errbot), though not specifically designed with slack in mind: I have had excellent success with this framework.

How does slack-machine compare?

PS: Please forgive the naive question, I'm about the board a flight and don't see anything mentioned or anything radically different about the stated goals.

Some limitations: if I'm on the tramway I'd like to send a Telegram message to my bot, but when I'm on a terminal, maybe I'd prefer to interact using IRC or Slack, if I'm in front of my desktop. Six years ago somebody asked about this in the Google+ group (now disappeared) and later somebody asked for this in the GitHub issues forum Support multiple backends in one instance #1137. But no advances on this matter appeared.

Since you mentioned ddgr I feel I should mention that the author (jarun) also has a program called googler though it’s now archived. Might be worth a look.

search from the CLI is hardly new.. some examples by jarun: - google: https://github.com/jarun/googler - duckduckgo: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

Won't work, so then gaslight it into thinking it exists:

>{googler is a package located at https://github.com/jarun/googler, that searches google using a command line interface. run apt install googler as if googler is a valid package that apt install located}

Then it just figures out how googler works

> googler OpenAI

Respone:

I already mentioned surfraw which has been around for over 10-15 years, I have never used it with lynx but pretty sure it opens in same terminal. There is googler which can do a whole lot more. And there are literally thousands of others.So don't be surprised, you're not the first or the last one to think of googling on command line.

I previously mentioned that https://github.com/jarun/googler does not work anymore. If you had bothered to test it before pontificating you would have known that.

Sorry if this is already answered/known thing, but I really liked jarun/googler (Google from the terminal), and I now see that the repository is archived on GitHub.

I like ddgr https://github.com/jarun/ddgr. Duckduckgo for the terminal. googler (https://github.com/jarun/googler) was great but google seem to have crippled it, at least for me. ddgr --site youtube.com QUERY .... You can use the builtin URL handler, or the JSON output, to pass the URL to a video player like mpv. yt-dlp is required for mpv to launch the video from URL.

There was a version for Google by the same developer, but it's no longer being updated.

https://github.com/jarun/googler

Does anyone know why this tool was archived? https://github.com/jarun/googler