simonhughxyz / tuxi

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

Tuxi

Tuxi is a simple bash script which scrapes Google's search results and provides instant, concise answers for your questions in the terminal.

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Requirements

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

Installation

cURL tuxi to your $PATH and give execute permissions.

$ curl -sL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bugswriter/tuxi/main/tuxi" -o $HOME/.local/bin/tuxi
$ chmod +x $HOME/.local/bin/tuxi

Usage

$ 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

Use -h, --help arguments to display help message.

$ tuxi --help
Usage: tuxi <your question>
       tuxi <OPTIONS> <your question>

OPTIONS:
-r, --raw             Simplify Tuxi output. Useful for e.g notify-send.
-h, --help            Displays this help message.

Report bugs to https://github.com/Bugswriter/tuxi

$ tuxi -r linus torvalds birthday
28 December 1969

How this work?

The script uses pup to scrape Google search results and return a clean, concise answer based on the top search result. If the query returns several results that are concise enough for tuxi to return, tuxi will show the results on the basis of priority.

In addition to using pup for scraping, tuxi also uses awk and sed to process and return results.