dtaht / gnugol

Command line web search client with org, markdown, ssml, plain text output

INTRO

I write in org or markdown format and frequently reference the web while writing.

When I get a web search back via surfraw or a browser, it’s in pure html.

The HTML from modern day search engines, contains redirects, and is both ugly and hard to reformat.

Enter gnugol, the command line, plain text web search client.

Gnugol has multiple output formatters that give me the search results in the mode I’m writing in.

An added benefit is that gnugol is VERY fast, as it’s written in C.

Please see the documentation index for more information about gnugol or visit the website gnugol.taht.net.

Current Status

The new Gnugol client is quite usable, as is the emacs interface. Try it!

The gnugold code is undergoing a major rewrite to be generalized and support more json backends (notably Xapian), and clean up the plugin idea and so on, so I can go back to exploring the original idea which was using some other transport than tcp to carry this sort of query, over international links.

There are many vestiges of the old code currently in here. You may be eaten by a grue.

gnugol's Issues

support PREFIX

/usr/local is hardcoded everywhere, making it impossible to use make to install with PREFIX=/usr or even a user-local place like ~/.local

solib location

the default installation location SHAREDLIBDIR=/var/lib/gnugol on Linux for the solibs seems wrong to me. From hier(7):

       /lib   This directory should hold those shared libraries that are necessary to
              boot the system and to run the commands in the root filesystem.
       /var/lib
              Variable state information for programs.

Issue During Install with Ubuntu error: ‘num_primes’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-const-variable=]

Make this work again

the web has got too annoying

make the org-capture protocol work again also.

? insert-string is void?

Hello,

I've tried gnugol but I got the error that the function insert-string is void.
I've have the issue by using (insert .... ) instead of (insert-string ... )
in the gnugol.el file.
Is the insert-string function doing something better ?

error: results is not an array

Now when I try to use gnugol, I get:
error: results is not an array
Any ideas?