How to install Googler in Ubuntu 16.04

Google search is a well known and the widely-used search engine on the World Wide Web (WWW), if you want to gather information from millions of servers on the Internet, then it is the number one and most reliable tool and much more. To access Google from Linux terminal, then this tutorial covers the topic on how to install Googler.

Features of Googler

Offers access to Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News.
It is fast and clean with custom colors and no ads, stray URLs or clutter included.
Allows navigation of search result pages from omniprompt.
Supports fetching of number of results in a go, users can start at the nth result.
Supports limiting of search by attributes such as duration, country/domain specific search (default: .com), language preference.
Supports Google search keywords in the form filetype:mime, site:somesite.com and many others.
Supports HTTPS proxy services.
Ships in with a man page which includes examples, shell completion scripts for Bash, Zsh and Fish.

Installing Googler

Googler is a command line tool to access Google from Linux terminal. To install Googler, add the repository by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:twodopeshaggy/jarun
 Ubuntu packages for the following utilities:
googler: Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal.
(https://github.com/jarun/googler)
Buku: Powerful command-line bookmark manager. Your mini web!
(https://github.com/jarun/Buku)
imgp: Superfast batch image resizer and rotator.
(https://github.com/jarun/imgp)
bcal: Byte CALculator. The engineer' s utility for storage conversions and calculations.
(https://github.com/jarun/bcal)
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~twodopeshaggy/+archive/ubuntu/jarun
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpd4t76fvp/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpd4t76fvp/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key E122E8FC from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpd4t76fvp/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key E122E8FC: public key " Launchpad PPA for Johnathan Jenkins"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

After running the repositories, run the following command to update the newly added repository.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/twodopeshaggy/jarun/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                 
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease               
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial InRelease 
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/twodopeshaggy/jarun/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1,036 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/twodopeshaggy/jarun/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [836 B]
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/twodopeshaggy/jarun/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [440 B]
Fetched 19.9 kB in 1s (18.0 kB/s)      
Reading package lists... Done

The repositories has been updated. Now execute the install command to install the googler.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install googler -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-4.4.0-42 linux-headers-4.4.0-42-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-53 linux-headers-4.4.0-53-generic
  linux-image-4.4.0-42-generic linux-image-4.4.0-53-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-42-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-53-generic
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  googler
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 347 not upgraded.
Need to get 31.9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 103 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/twodopeshaggy/jarun/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 googler all 2.9-0 [31.9 kB]
Fetched 31.9 kB in 0s (56.5 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package googler.
(Reading database ... 269130 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/googler_2.9-0_all.deb ...
Unpacking googler (2.9-0) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up googler (2.9-0) ...

The Googler is successfully installed. It can be now used to search a site by using the googler.

root@linuxhelp:~# googler linuxhelp.com
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googler (? for help)

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By using Googler, the system recieves the results of various websites. In order to get the help in googler, type the following command.

googler (? for help) ?
omniprompt keys:
  n, p                  fetch the next or previous set of search results
  index                 open the result corresponding to index in browser
  f                     jump to the first page
  o                     open the current search in browser
  g keywords            new Google search for ' keywords'  with original options
  q, ^D, double Enter   exit googler
  ?                     show omniprompt help
  *                     any other string initiates a new search with original options
googler (? for help)

To search a particular key word in a particular site where the options:

-n num &ndash tells googler to display at most 8 results per a page (default is 10).
-w &ndash enables Google site search.

root@linuxhelp:~# googler -n 5 -w linuxhelp.com " pligg" 
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googler (? for help)

Googler can also be used to see the news of a particular topics. To see the results, type the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# googler -N network
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http://www.factmag.com/2017/02/08/nicolas-jaar-network-book/
FACT, 16 hours ago
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googler (? for help)

The Googler can also be used for setting the alias keyword. Run the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# alias linuxhelp=' googler -n 6 linuxhelp' 
root@linuxhelp:~#
root@linuxhelp:~# linuxhelp
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googler (? for help)

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To display the man page of googler, run the command.

root@linuxhelp:~# man googler

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