DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#1

Post by LucasLarson » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 1:14 AM UTC

DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
duckduckgo.com

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#2

Post by big_chungus » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 2:30 AM UTC

This could be an excellent way to convert those who enjoy the command line (including me). I get awfully sick of google's garbage, "We've detected automated traffic from your systems." I don't scrape stuff, but if I did, so what? This is worse on things like tor or if I can't use JS. Why can't I just type in a query and get back a result?

Now, please make this an actual CLI. I want to type `search "performant c hash table"` from my command line and get back results. I can open the resultant link in something like lynx, as all I need is probably textual. This is perfect for development use cases.

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#3

Post by robgibbons » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 2:30 AM UTC

I thought maybe this would be an actual terminal client, as in a way to search DDG via the terminal.

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#4

Post by sdan » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 2:32 AM UTC

Nice.

Could I use this on my Terminal now?

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#5

Post by tracerbulletx » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 2:32 AM UTC

robgibbons wrote: post #3

I thought maybe this would be an actual terminal client, as in a way to search DDG via the terminal.

https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by sdan » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 2:35 AM UTC

tracerbulletx wrote: post #5

robgibbons wrote: post #3

I thought maybe this would be an actual terminal client, as in a way to search DDG via the terminal.

https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

This is what I was looking for (although honestly I probably won't use this often... unless I get used to it).

Thanks!

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#7

Post by kbd » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 2:37 AM UTC

Somehow the input on this doesn't register as an actual textbox. Many of my keystrokes are read by Vimium instead, making this unusable.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#8

Post by bitpush » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 2:40 AM UTC

1+1 returns [Object object]

https://imgur.com/les9QqQ

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#9

Post by shmerl » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 2:44 AM UTC

For some reason it doesn't work for me (nothing happens after typing a search term).

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#10

Post by isatty » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 2:48 AM UTC

The default keypress for / isn't captured and makes it difficult to type in an URL to search for (not that the URL search returned anything).