rofi-google

Interactive Google search via rofi.

(click for large preview)

Installation

npm install -g rofi-google

or copy rofi-google to your $PATH

Features

• search as you type
• copy search result website url
• open search result in web browser

Dependencies

• rofi-blocks (currently it needs patched version that has fix for utf-8 encoding, you can get it here patched-rofi-blocks)
• rofi
• xclip copy to clipboard
• googler (optional)

Usage

You can choose between two methods of getting search results. Each one will give slightly different results.

• Use googler for scraping the web for search results (default behavior)

  • googler does not parse information about number of search results
  • slightly slower than the other method which uses official google API

• Use google's custom search engine API and set GOOG_API_KEY & GOOG_SEARCH_ID env variables

  • You will need to go to https://cse.google.com/cse/all and create your own google custom search engine.

    • Get Search engine ID from the settings panel
      

  • Get API KEY for the created search engine.

rofi

#either use custom search engine
export GOOG_API_KEY='google-api-key'
export GOOG_SEARCH_ID='google-search-engine-id'

#or optionaly set additional googler options (see googler --help)
export GOOGLER_ARGS='["--count", 5]'


#TITLE_COLOR allows you to customize search results title color (default blue),
#as this can't be set via rofi theme
export TITLE_COLOR='#3296c8'

rofi -modi blocks -blocks-wrap rofi-google -show blocks \ 
-lines 4 -eh 4 -kb-custom-1 'Control+y' -theme /path/to/your/theme.rasi

You can fetch rofi theme used in the gif preview HERE

supported actions

• -kb-accept-entry - open url with xdg-open (aka. your default browser)
• -kb-accept-custom - open search results on google.com in your browser
• -kb-custom-1 - copy url to clipboard

TODO (PR is welcome)

• [ ] make font sizes configurable