# bugswriter/tuxi

Tuxi is a cli assistant. Get answers of your questions instantly.

Repository: https://github.com/bugswriter/tuxi
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tuxi
Language: Shell
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-02-20T01:12:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2026, "days_push": 1656, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1331, forks 72 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:24.280654+00:00)

## What it is
Tuxi is a shell-based CLI assistant that scrapes Google search results and SERPs to return instant, concise answers to natural language queries. It uses pup, jq, awk, sed, and recode to parse and format results directly in the terminal.

## Use cases
- get instant answers to questions from the terminal
- look up facts without opening a browser
- query google search results from a shell script
- ask things like 'linus torvalds birthday' in the command line
- pipe a query into a cli assistant
- get raw unformatted search results for scripting

## When to choose
- you want quick answers in the terminal without a browser
- you need scriptable, raw search output via the -r flag
- you prefer lightweight shell tools with minimal dependencies

## When to avoid
- you need a reliable API-backed search solution, since scraping Google can break when markup changes
- you need structured or comprehensive search results rather than concise answers
- you require an actively maintained tool, as the latest release dates to early 2022

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, search-engine, cli, nlp
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: google-search, instant-answers, shell-script, serp-scraping, assistant, command-line, search, automation, linux

## Member repositories
- bugswriter/tuxi (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.280654+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 2026-08-30T04:45:15.567022+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bugswriter/tuxi (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.280654+00:00, sha 77eeb217d514)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.