Show HN: Ddgr – search DuckDuckGo from your terminal

Post by apjana » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 8:02 PM UTC

I_complete_me wrote: post #21

apjana wrote: post #2

ddgr is a cmdline utility to search DuckDuckGo from the terminal. While googler is extremely popular among cmdline users, in many forums the need of a similar utility for privacy-aware DuckDuckGo came up. DuckDuckGo Bangs are super-cool too! So here's ddgr for you! Unlike the web interface, you can specify the number of search results you would like to see per page; more convenient than skimming through 30-odd search…

Great. Well done on this. I now have a new favourite dictionary on my zsh CLI thus: alias -g define='BROWSER=w3m ddgr \!wordnik ' Thank you!

Post by cyphar » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 8:08 PM UTC

jaequery wrote: post #23

What’s so good about DDG? I’ve used it a few times but i still don’t get the appeal to it

Post by theophrastus » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 8:23 PM UTC

     ddgr \!hn ddgr

Post by apjana » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 8:28 PM UTC

cyphar wrote: post #25

apjana wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it doesn't mean by default routing over Tor. There's an option to specify proxy which you can use to route your ddgr searches using the Tor network. However, Google blocks that.

Google doesn't /block/ Tor, they just make life difficult for users by giving endless captcha depending on what exit node you have (similar to what Cloudflare did until quite recently). But maybe you're referring to API access? I'm not sure if Tor users are outright blocked (and if the block is any different to other "abusive" IPs).

Post by apjana » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 9:28 PM UTC

TheGrassyKnoll wrote: post #29

theophrastus wrote: post #26

Are the bang searches supposed to always open a gui browser? Because they seem that way. Search Hacker News for "ddgr" and it opens up (in my case) a tab on firefox: ddgr \!hn ddgr

With bangs, I'm getting a new tab in Firefox as well.