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Search Google or DuckDuckGo directly in your terminal finely grained based on what you like. Customize the sites you want results from and more.

S - Terminal Search Tool

Search Google or DuckDuckGo directly in your terminal finely grained based on what you like. Customize the sites you want results from and more.

Setup

To get S up and running, you first need to install all dependencies:

yarn install

Then, running 2 simple commands is all you need.

yarn build
yarn setup

If you get permission issues running yarn setup try running it with sudo as sudo yarn setup

Using S

After installing S, to use it all you need to do is type s [your query] in your terminal. For example:

s hello world nodejs

This will get results for "hello world nodejs" based on the config.json and display them in your terminal.

Moving in S

Although there is a controls output that tells you the movements, here is what you would need to know just in case.

j - Move down a result
k - Move up a result
n - Move to the next page of results
p - Move to the previous page of results
return or space - Open the link in your default browser
q or esc - Quit the program

Config

This package comes with a default config.json file that will be located at /etc/s/config.json once installed. You can edit this file to better suit your needs. The config has 4 sections that are customizable.

sites - An array of strings that your results will be based on
results - A number for the amount of results you want
itemsPerPage - A number for the number of items you want shown on each page
searchEngine - Either google or duckduckgo

An example config for Google would look like this:

{
  "sites": [
    "stackoverflow.com",
    "stackexchange.com"
  ],
  "results": 30,
  "itemsPerPage": 5,
  "searchEngine": "google"
}

See config.json for an example.