googler VS sdcv

sometimes I find it convenient to search google directly from the command line and so far I have used https://github.com/jarun/googler - however I am having problems with it:

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

📷📷>{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}Copy code

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 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.

For dictionary lookup, I like https://github.com/manateelazycat/sdcv since I have a stardict version of the OED.

Thanks, I give it a try...after reading your original post I found another tool mentioned in the comment section sdcv and I was able to add the moby thesaurus II to the tools library so it displays both. It works fairly well also if you're wanting to check it out https://github.com/manateelazycat/sdcv