Show HN: A CLI for Google distributed as a ruby gem

It is deprecated, but the replacement API requires you to have an API key and charges you for more than 100 searches per day. I'm using the deprecated API until it is discontinued, then I'll release a new version of the gem that will, unfortunately, require you to sign up for an API key.

christiangenco• 14 years ago

This is a fantastic idea! Has some issues that I'll be posting to the github page.

Edit: upon further investigation, the error seems to be with parsing the specific page http://www.test.com (here's the full trace: http://pastebin.com/Lqedy4eN ).

Kerrick4• 14 years ago

Thanks! Fixed the issue in v1.0.6. One of the libraries I was using, reverse markdown, couldn't handle strings that aren't UTF-8.

Tyr42• 14 years ago

So sad it's only for 1.9

obilgic• 14 years ago

Show "how you present the results" instead of showing the man page on your landing page.

Kerrick4• 14 years ago

Hmm, good idea. Should I put screenshots up, or a bit of the plaintext output?

nasmorn• 14 years ago

This really needs to parse the calculator results as well. That would be so useful.

vasco2• 14 years ago

echo "1+2" | bc

No need to go online for math. Unless that wasn't what you meant at all in which case, what did you mean?

semanticist• 14 years ago

"371633 hours in years" is a Google search I did earlier, because it was quicker than working out the appropriate divisors.

That could be done locally too, but I don't know what tool would do it and if it's installed on my computer by default.

Show HN: A CLI for Google distributed as a ruby gem

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