cliquery 0.4.1

a command line search engine and browsing tool

# cliquery

## a command-line browsing interface
cliquery is a command-line interface meant to bundle important features of a conventional browser and the quickness of the command-line. It supports previewing webpages, bookmarks, 'Feeling Lucky' searches, as well as regular web searches or simply entering URI's directly. cliquery is **_NOT_** a command-line browser such as Lynx, but it does have an interactive interface that makes it quick and easy to perform multiple searches and other operations. When a user decides to actually open a link, cliquery simply invokes their browser of choice! Supported in both Python 2.x and 3.x.

The results? Less clicking, faster results, and *no limitations to regular browsing!*

## Installation
* `pip install cliquery`
* [Sign up](https://developer.wolframalpha.com/portal/apisignup.html) for a WolframAlpha API key.
* Enter your API key and choice of browser in .cliqrc (cygwin users should enter `cygwin` as their browser). An example .rc file is available in cliquery/.cliqrc, or will be created after an initial run.

## Usage
usage: cliquery.py [-h] [-s] [-f] [-o] [-w] [-d] [-b] [-v] [QUERY [QUERY ...]]

a command-line browsing interfaace


  positional arguments:

    QUERY keywords to search


  optional arguments:

    -h, --help show this help message and exit

    -s, --search display search links

    -f, --first open first link

    -o, --open open link manually

    -w, --wolfram display wolfram results

    -d, --describe display page snippet

    -b, --bookmark view and modify bookmarks

    -c, --config print location of config file

    -v, --version display current version


## Author
* Hunter Hammond ([e-mail])

## Notes
* If you receive the following message when trying to add bookmarks:
```
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cliquery/.cliqrc'
```
Enter the following to fix:
```
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cliquery/.cliqrc
```

* A search may return immediate results, such as calculations or facts, or instead a page of search results comprised of descriptive links to follow.

* Interactive use is as easy as passing the regular flag arguments into the link prompt; this overrides any preexisting flags and allows for more even more flexibility.
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3. Simple random sample - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4. A Simple Guide to HTML - Welcome
5. MVC3 DropDownListFor - a simple example? - Stack Overflow
6. Using OpenGL on Windows: A Simple Example
7. Reconstructing trees: A simple example - Evolution
8. A Simple Example - Logarithms
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example, using the GLUT library or using GDI and WGL directly. This guide focuses on using the
Windows OpenGL API directly.
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```
* Entering h or help will bring up the list of possible commands to pass to the prompt.

* To choose multiple links at once, a range may be specified by separating the start and end range with a dash. Leaving one end of the range blank will choose all links until the other end of that range. For example, given 10 links, entering 5- would effectively be the same as entering 5-10.

* Using the bookmarks flag with empty arguments will list all current bookmarks in .cliqrc, ordered by time of entry. To add a new bookmark, simply enter the url you wish to add as an argument. To open an existing bookmark, enter the corresponding bookmark number as listed as an argument. Bookmarks may also be added interactively through the link prompt like all other flags.


News
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0.4.1
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- python 3 support, switched urllib2 to requests and other minor changes

0.4.0
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- rehaul of interactive mode, can now reuse most flags without exiting the prompt

0.3.3
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- added -c flag to print location of config

0.3.2
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- renamed CLIQuery to cliquery

0.3.1
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- improved description output readability

0.3.0
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- fixed desc flag behavior when given standalone

0.2.9
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- proper checking for 'cygwin' as browser before writing errors

0.2.8
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- updates to .cliqrc creation and error messages

0.2.5
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- .cliqrc now created on first run

0.2.4
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- Now available on PyPI

0.2.3
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- First entry