Check your local temperature based on geolocation. Show Sample Output
Just a few minor changes. First the usage of lynx instead of curl so no sed is needed to revert the spaces. Then the usages of egrep instead of grep -e to save a few characters and last the removal of the extra 0. Show Sample Output
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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sunset() { city=${1-Seattle}; w3m "google.com/search?q=sunset:$city" | sed -r '1,/^\s*1\./d; /^\s*2\./,$d; /^$/d' ;}
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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.
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Syntax: google query_with_spaces " so, make sure to end your query with a double quote Show Sample Output
Inspired by: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8744/search-google-on-os-x
#!/bin/bash
if [ -n "$1" ]
then
firefox 'http://www.google.com/search?q="'$1'"'
else
firefox 'http://www.google.com'
fi
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.
No need to install additional packages eg: say hello For multiword say how+are+you
Support several arguments. Show Sample Output
Mac OSX friendly version of google function Show Sample Output
Will return temperature in Fahrenheit of a location (New York City in example). Uses a Google API. Show Sample Output
Get Google Reader unread count from the command line.
You'll have to define your auth token with $auth
Or use:
curl -s -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$(curl -sd "Email=$email&Passwd=$password&service=reader" https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin | grep Auth | sed 's/Auth=\(.*\)/\1/')" "http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/unread-count?output=json" | tr '{' '\n' | sed 's/.*"count":\([0-9]*\),".*/\1/' | grep -E ^[0-9]+$ | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/\(.*\)+/\1\n/' | bc
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Will create a graph of the results for "x bottles of beer on the wall". Requires Gnuplot. Inspired by an xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/715/ For sample output see: http://tr.im/xbottlesofbeer Show Sample Output
Change lang from ru to something else. Curl version - Mac OS etc, any system w/o wget. Show Sample Output
Uses Google Closure Compiler (can be downloaded via http://closure-compiler.googlecode.com/files/compiler-latest.zip)
Weather based on your location
Yep, now you can finally google from the command line!
Here's a readable version "for your pleasure"(c):
google() { # search the web using google from the commandline
# syntax: google google
query=$(echo "$*" | sed "s:%:%25:g;s:&:%26:g;s:+:%2b:g;s:;:%3b:g;s: :+:g")
data=$(wget -qO - "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=$query")
title=$(echo "$data" | tr '}' '\n' | sed "s/.*,\"titleNoFormatting//;s/\":\"//;s/\",.*//;s/\\u0026/'/g;s/\\\//g;s/#39\;//g;s/'amp;/\&/g" | head -1)
url="$(echo "$data" | tr '}' '\n' | sed 's/.*"url":"//;s/".*//' | head -1)"
echo "${title}: ${url} | http://www.google.com/search?q=${query}"
}
Enjoy :)
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