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Install Googler in Ubuntu to google on terminal

At first make sure you have python version 3.3 or later using this command-

python3 --version

If not, upgrade it.

All we have to do is run the following commands-

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/jarun/googler.git
cd googler
sudo make install
cd auto-completion/bash/
sudo cp googler-completion.bash /etc/bash_completion.d/

Googler is installed.

Type this command in terminal to search -

googler <search topic>

News Search: If you want to search News, start googler with the N optional argument:
googler -N

The subsequent omniprompt will fetch results from Google News.

Site Search: If you want to search pages from a specific site, run googler with w {domain} argument:
googler -w itsfoss.com

The subsequent omniprompt with fetch results only from It’s FOSS blog!

Manual Page: Run the following command for Googler manual page equipped with various examples:
man googler

Google country/domain specific search:
googler -c in "hello world"

The above example command will open search results from Google’s Indian domain (in for India).

Its done...!




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