Surfraw – CLI to a variety of search engines

http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/

by gnocchi • 11 years ago

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gnocchi• 11 years ago

Surfraw was originally created by Julian Assange. I've found it while playing with stumpwm - a Common LISP window manager (see https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm-contrib/blob/master/util/...)

gwern• 11 years ago

I used Surfraw early on, and when I moved to Ratpoison, I took usage with me, and then when the Ratpoison maintainer decided to develop StumpWM, that followed too; finally, when I made my last move to Xmonad, I decided to just implement Surfraw as an XmonadContrib module, XMonad.Actions.Search.

(Considering how much time Google and Wikipedia shortcuts have saved me over the years, my investments in this kind of code has paid off many times over.)

asymmetric• 11 years ago

Thanks! I've been using YubNub[0] for a long time, but decided to stop for privacy reasons: all my searches were proxied through it, and it doesn't even use HTTPS.

Now I'm using DDG's !bang syntax, but there's no way to add new entries yourself.

I have to say that YubNub's functionality was quite comprehensive, and it seems definitely easier than writing new elivs for Surfraw. I'll give it a try nevertheless.

[0] http://yubnub.org/

roylez• 11 years ago

It acts like Alfred web search, but in command line. I still prefer Alfred, but for those who use Linux it is convenient if you do not use vimperator.

Surfraw – CLI to a variety of search engines

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