A CLI tool that scrapes Whoogle search results and SERPs that provides instant and concise answers

This is currently in beta as whoogle search's
result page does not use id's therefore we
have to use CSS paths. Which are non-unique, 
so its difficult to parse the results.
However it's still better than using google's trackers.

The script uses pup to scrape Whoogle search results and SERPs. If the query returns several results, Tuxi will choose the most relevant result on the basis of priority.

In addition to scraping, tuxi also uses jq, awk and sed to process and return results, and recode to unescape html.

Watch this video for more info

Also checkout BugsWriter's YouTube channel for more scripts like this.

• pup - CLI tool for processing HTML.
• recode - Charset converter tool and library.
• jq - Command-line JSON processor.

$ git clone https://github.com/spector-9/tuxi.git && cd tuxi/
$ sudo make install

To update, just git pull on your local tuxi repository and reinstall with sudo make install.
To uninstall, simply run sudo make uninstall.

Whoogle search is a deployable search engine. Meaning you can deploy your own search engine environment or you can use the public instances listed on whoogle's git.

• Find a Public Instance from Whoogle's git.
• Replace the url with -u flag. Eg.

tuxi -u url_here

no need to add https or www in the beginning.

This is by no means difficult but it requires a little time to setup.

• Create an account on Heroku.
• Deploy the search engine by following the instructions here
• After deployment change the url using -u flag as described above.
• You can deploy it anywhere if you don't want to use heroku.

Heroku apps become inactive after sometime which takes some time to reload so you can use cronjobs to setup automated pings If you know how to use cronjobs then just add the following job

*/20 7-23 * * * /bin/curl -s https://<your heroku app name>.herokuapp.com > /dev/null

If you don't then

• Install a cronjob manager like 'cronie'
• run following commands

sudo systemctl enable --now cronie
crontab -e

Now paste the line above & save.

$ tuxi "Is Linux better than Windows?"
---
Linux has a reputation for being fast and smooth while
Windows 10 is known to become slow and slow over
time. Linux runs faster than Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
along with a modern desktop environment and qualities of the
operating system while windows are slow on older hardware.
---

• Quotations are optional, but should be used if you want to search with special characters (?=!|&<>%$#/\).
• You can also write your query as a statement, e.g: tuxi linus torvalds birthday.
• The -r option will make the output not have formatting, which can be convenient for use in scripts.
• The -q option silences "Did you mean?" and Tuxi's greeting on calling tuxi.

Use -h to display the help message.

$ tuxi -h
Usage: tuxi [options] query

Options:
  -h                    Show this help message and exit.
  -r                    Raw search results.
                        (no pretty output, no colors)
  -q                    Only output search results.
                        (silences "Did you mean?", greeting, usage)
  -u                    Change the current URL
                        (change the URL for Whoogle's instance)

Gives corrections

$ tuxi linux torvalds birthday
> Did you mean linus?
---
28 December 1969
---

When you know it's actually linux torvalds -q option

$ tuxi -q linux torvalds birthday
---
28 December 1969
---

Raw formatting for output (no colors) -r option

Useful for e.g scripting notify-send.

$ tuxi -r linux torvalds birthday
> Did you mean linus?
28 December 1969

Math operations

$ tuxi "log(30)"
---
1.4771212547196624
---

Translate

$ tuxi "I love you in japanese"
---
わたしは、あなたを愛しています
---
$ tuxi "わたしは、あなたを愛しています in english"
---
I love you
---

And much more (lyrics, weather, conversions...)

This project is licensed under GPL-3.0.

If you want to contribute, please see CONTRIBUTING.