ddgz 1.0.0

Search with duckduckgo from the command-line, fuzzy select the results.

ddgz

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Duckduckgo search using fzf. This is a wrapper around the duckduckgo command-line util ddgr which uses the fuzzy search tool, fzf, to select a result and then writes the url of the result to standard output.

Attribution

This tool is effectively a thin wrapper around ddgr and python fzf

Installation

pipx install ddgz

Usage

ddgz hello world

You likely want to use the result, my motivation was to place it on the clipboard while editing documents, for which I use this.

ddgz | xclip -selection clipboard -i

I personally define a snippet (which I call ddcli) for the above using my zsh snippet manager zshnip.

Alternatives and prior work

ddgr can output results to JSON, this can be used for arbitrary purposes.

I tried to find tools to search google. I found googler but this was deprecated and I could not install this with pipx

About me

I am @readwithai, I make tools related to productivity, agency, research and reading sometimes using Obsidian.

If this is the sort of tool that interests you, then you can.

1. Follow me on X where I tend to post about this sort of thing.
2. Check out my list of command line productivity tools
3. Read the Technical Miscellany section of my blog

If you are interested in computer-aided reading which is my interest you might like to start with my somewhat academic Review of note taking with Obsidian