Nice. Now all we need is image search that returns the images as ascii art!
try $ giggity from command line https://github.com/niftylettuce/giggity
There's also icat https://github.com/atextor/icat
DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
#52Using this felt similar to using the Github Launch Bar[1] for the first time. Something about having a command line interface really makes it feel like you are communicating deeply with the software, as opposed to poking around its surface in arranged flows. With a command line the interaction is different - it is exploratory with freestyle flow composition, and that can be really fun. Modern graphical interfaces com…
Sentiments I totally agree with.
So much so that we started a side project to create a CLI environment for exploring the personal cloud. It's a web app which exposes your FB, Twitter, Picasa resources as files and navigate them using a shell and unix-like tools. It's not "launch-ready" yet - still got to write tests, docs, FAQs, and so on (i.e. the last 10% which takes 90%) but there is a live alpha version at https://pigshell.com. (Your data stays 100% private: The app is all static files and client-side JS. The server can't see a single bit of user data)
And yes, Ctrl-L works. Tab completion too. What would life be without them? One damn point-and-click after another :)
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was what I was hoping for rather than an ascii terminal style search. Does DDG have an API?
DDG does have an API for the goodies, but not for the search results because they come from a variety of sources, some of which don't allow sub-licensing.
Seems like you could have a search API for the sources that do allow sub-licensing. But I'm not sure putting search into an API would be a good way for DDG to gain revenue.
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
#54They need to distribute /usr/bin/ddg, a binary that lets me search like this.
Yes, to really have this available in my terminal would make far more sense then in the browser where i can do the same stuff by entering stuff in the location bar..
I found this perl cmd util that does exactly that ...
http://search.cpan.org/~getty/App-DuckDuckGo-0.006/bin/duckd...
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
#55I think this might be more useful the other way around. Put ddg inside a linux shell and let me interoperate with linux commands. eg. ddg reviews samsung note | grep "note 2"
It is easily doable with a few lines of python. I gave it a quick shot: https://github.com/thibauts/duckduckgo
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#57I like it! Nice work.
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
#58Using this felt similar to using the Github Launch Bar[1] for the first time. Something about having a command line interface really makes it feel like you are communicating deeply with the software, as opposed to poking around its surface in arranged flows. With a command line the interaction is different - it is exploratory with freestyle flow composition, and that can be really fun. Modern graphical interfaces com…
Sentiments I totally agree with. So much so that we started a side project to create a CLI environment for exploring the personal cloud. It's a web app which exposes your FB, Twitter, Picasa resources as files and navigate them using a shell and unix-like tools. It's not "launch-ready" yet - still got to write tests, docs, FAQs, and so on (i.e. the last 10% which takes 90%) but there is a live alpha version at https:…
Man, this is really cool! I'm playing with this right now and I liked it very much. Keep up the great work! :-)
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
#59Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
#60They need to distribute /usr/bin/ddg, a binary that lets me search like this.
Yes, to really have this available in my terminal would make far more sense then in the browser where i can do the same stuff by entering stuff in the location bar..
I'm sure you realize that not all of us 1) use graphical user interfaces or environments when we work 2) have browser open 3) prefer clicking around stuff
Just some of us want to do simple things such as [shift]+[right arrow], "ddg hackernews -l 5" which would then return the five topmost(the imaginary -l or --limit) results. No need to change workspaces, focus the browser, open a new tab, write out the search term, look around, switch back to work environment and try to memorize what we just saw.