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stroebjo · 9 years ago

This uses the Google Autocomplete API which seems a bit risky to use [0] and according to this Google blog post should be already shut down [1]. Do you have any newer information on how reliable the API is?

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6428502/google-search-aut... [1]: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2015/07/update-on-autocomp...

nathancahill · 9 years ago

Nice catch, updated to the new API.

AlphaWeaver · 9 years ago

Instructions are also included to use DuckDuckGo.

jxy · 9 years ago

Wonderful. I decided to put a script together.

  #!/bin/bash
  S="$(echo "$@" | sed -E 's, +,+,g')"
  g(){
   curl -sS "https://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?client=firefox&q=$1" \
    | sed -E 's,.*\[([^]]*)\].*,\1,;s,",,g' | tr , '\n'
  }
  d(){
   curl -sS "https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?q=$1" \
    | sed -E 's,"phrase":|[][{}"],,g' | tr , '\n'
  }
  paste -d , <(g $S) <(d $S) | column -t -s ,

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jxy · 9 years ago

If you have your shell ready,

    curl -sS 'https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&xhr=t&q=aurora' \
        | json_pp | sed -nE '/<\/?b>/{s```g;s`"|,|^ *``g;p}'

jsrn · 9 years ago

Nice!

To run this with macOS, I had to use the GNU version of sed. I installed it with

    $ brew install gnu-sed

And it is then called with 'gsed' instead of 'sed'.

As an avid Perl programmer, I had json_pp in my $PATH - for everyone else - it is here: https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::PP

You can install it with cpanm:

    $ cpanm JSON::PP

If you don't have cpanm, you can install it with

    $ curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus

The modified command line from above then becomes:

    $ curl -sS 'https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&xhr=t&q=aurora' \
        | json_pp | gsed -nE '/<\/?b>/{s```g;s`"|,|^ *``g;p}'

Here is a little Bash function to encapsulate this:

    $ function c() { curl -sS "https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&xhr=t&q=$1" | json_pp | gsed -nE '/<\/?b>/{s```g;s`"|,|^ *``g;p}'; }

Which then allows you to use it like this:

    $ c hacker
    hacker news
    hacker typer
    hackerrank
    hackerman
    hackers movie
    hacker fare
    hackerone
    hackers cast
    hacker pschorr

For spaces in your query, use a '+':

    $ c New+York
    new york times
    new york and company
    new york giants
    new york post
    new york daily news
    new york weather

ekns · 9 years ago

Improved version using jq. This properly URL encodes the query parameter and uses a much simpler sed command. Additionally the API returns UTF-8 encoded data when the user agent is specified. Requires curl >= 7.18.0.

    function c() {
        url='https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&xhr=t'
        # NB: user-agent must be specified to get back UTF-8 data!
        curl -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0' -sSG --data-urlencode "q=$*" "$url" |
            jq -r .[1][][0] |
            sed 's,</\?b>,,g'
    }

Example:

    $ c ':)' ':('
    ) ( meaning
    ) ( emoticon
    ) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
    ) ( emoticon meaning

eridius · 9 years ago

You can use BSD sed by just inserting a semicolon into the sed pattern:

  sed -nE '/<\/?b>/{s```g;s`"|,|^ *``g;p;}'

(Edited to remove previous advice about inserting a newline)

kevinastone · 9 years ago

Would think jq[0] is more suitable if you're going to install a cli json parser.

[0]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

jsrn · 9 years ago

Here is the command with jq instead of json_pp

    $ curl -sS 'https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&xhr=t&q=aurora' | jq . | gsed -nE '/<\/?b>/{s```g;s`"|,|^ *``g;p}'

(see my other comment about gsed vs sed)

devoply · 9 years ago

I have learned the hard way never to type stuff like this into a shell because I might not like the results. It looks fine, but never again. ;)

curiousgal · 9 years ago

What happened?

mooman219 · 9 years ago

Had this idea a while back: I really enjoyed auto complete in my IDE and configurable expansions and I wanted that everywhere. I threw together an app to run in the background to keep track of the last word I typed and manage suggestions when I hit a hotkey. Read from a local dictionary, used basic usage frequency and levenshtein distance to recommend, pretty straightforward hacked together in an afternoon project. I could see Anycomplete using a more local suggestion list instead of relying on Google.

Ideally it showed a drop down under where you're typing much like most IDEs would, but support was shotty at best. I really wish there were more OS level hooks for this sort of thing, or a more standardized way to understand what the user is typing and where, but that's not something I ever expect to happen. My app was basically a keylogger while the one in the post is more like a separate entity altogether.

lbotos · 9 years ago

I just tried Hammerspoon for the first time this week and it's really, really powerful. Currently working on an automation suite for a bunch of tedious "micro-workflows" that I deal with on a daily basis.

_vya7 · 9 years ago

Really enjoying seeing a lot of new projects based on Hammerspoon. And very glad for the people who created it, because maintaining the precursor was a daunting job and took too much of my time and gave me too much stress.

nathancahill · 9 years ago

Thanks for starting Mjolnir though!

mooman219 · 9 years ago

For windows users, I recommend AutoHotkey

curiousgal · 9 years ago

Are there decent Linux alternatives?

ryanSrich · 9 years ago

Is there a place to find inspiration or other examples of Hammerspoon extensions? Just installed and wrote a few simple scripts, but having a hard time coming up with anything groundbreaking that I'd want to build.

lbotos · 9 years ago

I'm currently automating any workflow that I use daily:

- We have a team call and a team agenda doc, I'm using a hotkey to open a chooser, which has an option "goto team call" that fires up the call window and the doc.

- We deal with prod/dev so I made another item in the chooser "log in to dev server" which opens a chrome incognito window, presses the one password unlock shortcut and then I'm just waiting there to input 2 factor.

As I uncover more of these, I'll be coding them up and using the master chooser to deal with any annoying workflows. :)

weitzj · 9 years ago

Check out the Hammerspoon Wiki on Github

wingerlang · 9 years ago

Have you tried Keyboard Maestro?

hossbeast · 9 years ago

And by "Anywhere", you mean, on macOs

Ph0X · 9 years ago

I'd love to see this as a Keypirinha [1] plugin.

[1] http://keypirinha.com/

maturz · 9 years ago

Or Wox http://www.getwox.com/

wingerlang · 9 years ago

Anywhere within a targeted OS is not a valid description? It clearly shows that it is macOS.

sjwright · 9 years ago

It doesn't work with my Bic biro. Two stars.

joshuak · 9 years ago

Universal autocomplete based on a local index of words? That would be great!

Universal autocomplete via google api? Hmm, something to think about.

1) Keyloggers

2) Filter bubbles

3) Offline tax

worldsayshi · 9 years ago

Is there any similar tool for linux?

sytringy05 · 9 years ago

That's pretty cool, but I'm fairly certain that sooner or later I would end up googling my password.

Aldo_MX · 9 years ago

What's the matter? Passwords are intended to be disposable, here, have one: xAKi2It6XJK7QJR1ROXFK7xmjV6kn6DNÑJU7Pu9hA7OS

latortuga · 9 years ago

Obligatory: http://bash.org/?244321

nathancahill · 9 years ago

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