# jarun/googler

:mag: Google from the terminal

Repository: https://github.com/jarun/googler
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/googler
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: google-news, google-search, google-site-search, google, command-line, standalone, terminal, search, web-search, console, cli
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-11-13T08:09:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4035, "days_push": 1754, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6204, forks 536 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:39.920451+00:00)

## What it is
googler is a Python command-line tool for performing Google web, news, and video searches directly from the terminal. It displays titles, URLs, and abstracts with pagination, site filtering, time-range limits, and browser integration.

## Use cases
- search google from the terminal
- search google on a headless server without a browser
- fetch site-specific search results for a website
- read google news from the command line
- search google videos from the console
- open search results in a text-based browser
- limit search results by date range or duration

## When to choose
- you need Google search results on headless servers or SSH sessions without a GUI
- you want ad-free, scriptable Google searches with site and time filters
- you prefer integrating search with text-based browsers or shell workflows

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool - the latest release is from 2021 and Google markup changes may break it
- you need a GUI or rich browser-based search experience
- you need search APIs with guaranteed stability or official support

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: search-engine, cli, web-scraping
- domain: developer-tools, web-development
- platform: cli, python, cross-platform
- tags: google-search, terminal, web-search, headless, news-search, site-search, search, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- jarun/googler (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:39.920451+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:47:19.093750+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jarun/googler (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:39.920451+00:00, sha cce89d322214)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.