Commands tagged google

Put it in your ~/.bashrc

usage:

google word1 word2 word3...

google '"this search gets quoted"'

I found this command on a different site and thought you guy might enjoy it. Just change "YOURSEARCH" to what ever you want to search. Example, "Linux Commands"

(1) required: python-googl ( install by: pip install python-googl )

(2) get from google API console https://code.google.com/apis/console/

Get the first 10 google results form a querry, but showing only the urls from the results.

Use + to search diferent terms, ex: commandlinefu+google .

This command will place symbolic links to files listed in an m3u playlist into a specified folder. Useful for uploading playlists to Google Music.

prefix = The full path prefix to file entries in your .m3u file, if the file paths are relative. For example, if you have "Music/folder/song.mp3" in your list.m3u, you might want to specify "/home/username" as your prefix.

list.m3u = Path to the playlist

target_folder = Path to the target folder in which you would like to create symlinks

same but redirecting to player and putting whaever text line.. works on my ubuntu machine ...

Usage: say hello world how are you today

Usage examples:

say hello

say "hello world"

say hello+world

No need to install additional packages

eg:

say hello

For multiword

say how+are+you

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Inspired by: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8744/search-google-on-os-x

Ive aliased this script as 'google' on my system and I can type 'google "search terms"' to open firefox with my search terms. My first post here, if there are any improvements to be made please let me know in the comments.

Syntax:

google query_with_spaces "

so, make sure to end your query with a double quote

this does the actual google dictionary query, returns a JSON string encapsulated in some fancy tag

here we remove the tag beginning

and here the tag end

There are also some special characters which could cause problems with some JSON parsers, so if you get some errors, this is probably the case (sed is your friend).

I laso like to trim the "webDefinitions" part, because it (sometimes) contains misleading information.

(but remember to append a "}" at the end, because the JSON string will be invalid)

The output also contains links to mp3 files with pronounciation.

As of now, this is only usable in the English language. If you choose other than English, you will only get webDefinitions (which are crap).

EDIT: command updated to support accented characters!

Works in any of 58 google supported languages (some sound like crap, english is the best IMO).

You get a mp3 file containing your query in spoken language. There is a limit of 100 characters for the "q" parameter, so be careful. The "tl" parameter contains target language.

The FLAC audio must be encoded at 16000Hz sampling rate (SoX is your friend).

Outputs a short JSON string, the actual speech is in the hypotheses->utterance, the accuracy is stored in hypotheses->confidence (ranging from 0 to 1).

Google also accepts audio in some special speex format (audio/x-speex-with-header-byte), which is much smaller in comparison with losless FLAC, but I haven't been able to encode such a sample.

substitute "example" with desired string;

tl = target language (en, fr, de, hu, ...);

you can leave sl parameter as-is (autodetection works fine)

Simple edit to work for OSX.

Now just add this to your ~/.profile and `source ~/.profile`

Some commands have more information on 'info' than in the man pages

Sometimes you don't have man pages only '-h' or '--help'.

RTFMFTW.

Yep, now you can finally google from the command line!

Here's a readable version "for your pleasure"(c):

Enjoy :)

Uses Google's "OneBox" to look up the sunrise in any city by name. If no city is specified, it defaults to Seattle. For the sunset time, you change the search query to "sunset", like so,

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"OneBox" is Google's term for that box that appears before the organic search results that has useful information that Google thinks you might be looking for (mathematical calculations, weather, currency conversions, and such). I'm not actually using OneBox correctly, but that's because I'm not sure that there is a "correctly". I looked for a command line API, but couldn't find one, so I settled on parsing stdout from the fantastic w3m web browser. I use the sed script to show only the first hit by deleting everything from the beginning of the file until it sees " 1." and then deleting everything from " 2." to the end of the file. Ugly and fragile, yes, but it works fine.

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BUG1: w3m represents the picture of the sun rising, "weather_sunset-40.gif" as "[weat]" which is slightly confusing and probably should be removed.

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BUG2: The output is more easily readable by a human, which means it's less useful for scripting.