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README.md

ferret

Search DuckDuckGo in your terminal.

Run ferret and enter a search query:

Ferret will display the first page of results:

Press Enter on a result and it will open the result in a terminal text-based web browser (w3m):

Why DuckDuckGo

Not only does it respect your privacy, but they are also pretty lenient about not blocking scrapers. Google will eventually detect scrapers and force you to fill out a captcha.

Bugs

There's an issue with launching a sub program in Cursive, the Rust terminal UI library I'm using, where keyboard input doesn't quite go through and the cursor does not show up.

Todo

Allow pressing 0-9 take you to that Nth result (0 == 10)
Allow configuring colors
Allow configuring web browser
Error if screen is too small
Display DuckDuckGo instant answers
Support other search engines
Add search history (press up arrow to get previous search entered)
Cache search results
Add autocompletion
Refactor out scraping code into a separate module from the UI code
Add tests