Description

psr is a perl script inspired by surfraw. It of course misses a lot of features and supports not nearly as many searches as surfraw does. Its main advantage is the possibility to scrape search results out of the html page, using the very good Web::Scraper. This enables a "I'm feeling lucky" implementation working for all searches and makes it possible to list and use results directly in the shell.

Installation

psr is easiest to install with cpanminus:

cpanm --no-lwp --no-wget https://github.com/downloads/xabbu42/psr/App-psr-0.4.tar.gz

If you want to install psr manually you can use the following commands:

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/downloads/xabbu42/psr/App-psr-0.4.tar.gz
tar -xzf App-psr-0.4.tar.gz
cd App-psr-0.4
perl Makefile.PL
make
sudo make install

Usage

See the manpage for complete documentation. Some examples:

$ psr -l google test
http://www.test.com/
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_cricket
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv
http://test.org.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/
http://acid3.acidtests.org/
http://www.testing.com/

$ psr -f google test                        #opens http://www.test.com in a browser

$ psr google test -o 2-3,5                  #opens the given urls in a browser

$ psr -n 30 -u google test
http://www.google.com/search?num=30&q=test

$ psr -n 30 google test                     #opens http://www.google.com/search?num=30&q=test in a browser

Todos and Ideas

• Get more use out of Web::Scraper and the scraping code coming with searches.

  • Add title and/or descriptions of search results to output.
  • etc.