commit d195ecc2648dc74c89e96ed15110ef3dffe19724
from: Oliver Lowe <o@olowe.co>
date: Mon Sep 16 06:48:45 2024 UTC

add web search program

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@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ The following commands are provided:
 - lemmyverse - find lemmy communities
 - llama - prompt a large language model
 - webpaste - create a web paste on webpaste.olowe.co
+- ws - web search
 - xstream - stream X display over the network
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+firefox="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0"
+
+prog='
+/duckduckgo.com\/y.js/ { next } # skip ads
+/Sponsored link/ { next } # skip ads
+/result-link/ {
+	$1=$1
+	link = substr($3, index($3, "\""), length($3))
+	link = substr(link, 2, length(link)-2)
+
+	title = substr($0, index($0, ">")+1, length)
+	title = substr(title, 1, index(title, "<")-1)
+	print link
+	print "\t" title
+}
+'
+
+curl -s -d "q=$@" -H "User-Agent: $firefox" https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ | awk "$prog"
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+.Dd
+.Dt WS 1
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm ws
+.Nd web search
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Ar query ...
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+sends the query to a web search engine
+.Pq default DuckDuckGo
+and prints the results to the standard output.
+.Sh EXAMPLE
+.Pp
+Find the Plan 9 Foundation home page:
+.Dl ws Plan 9 foundation
+.Pp
+Search the web for motorcycle parts for
+Yamaha's discontinued dual-sport motorcycle:
+.Bd -literal -offset Ds
+ws '"wr250r parts"' Australia
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The first two keywords are quoted
+to include search results containing both
+.Dq wr250r
+and
+.Dq parts .
+This is again enclosed in single quotes to ensure
+.Xr sh 1
+does not interpret its own quote characters.
+.Sh EXIT STATUS
+.Ex
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr curl 1 ,
+.Xr awk 1 ,
+.Lk https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/non-javascript/ How To Use the Non-JavaScript Version of DuckDuckGo Search