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Steps to potentially support image search

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commented

I'm aware of issue #360 and the fact that googler currently doesn't support image search.

I'm curious though, is this a technical limitation, or is it that one hasn't spent the time to implement this?
If it's the latter what would be the steps to add support for it?

Thanks

commented

Primarily:

  • we prefer to keep the utility textual
  • there is no standard to render images on the terminal
commented

But AFAIU there's nothing that stops the program from potentially fetching links to the google-suggested images and displays them (only the links) at stdout, right?

commented

There's no point in supporting google image search without showing images. Links are too random to mean anything.

commented

It's not like I haven't given this some substantial thought at one point.

  • All UI ideas (including fetching the images, stitching them into larger grids and labelling them, opening in image viewer or even video player) I could come up with were utter garbage. Why not use an actual graphical and interactive application — a graphical web browser — for something inherently graphical and interactive?

  • Google Images search returns image results including captions in a JS blob, so the architecture would be significantly different. The answer is probably regex (also likely needs to be paired with a safe variant of eval), which takes the fragility to a whole new level.

Among all the rejected suggestions, image search would be a hard no.