Alfred Google Inline Results

[Sidd93]

Hi Everyone,

 

I came across this great workflow while browsing the internet and thought I would share it. It provides inline search results from google. With a few small modifications, it also provides inline results from other websites such as YouTube (You need to replace "{query}" with "youtube {query}").

 

https://github.com/ericboehs/alfred-googler

[dood]

A word to the wise: you can easily modify this workflow to work with DuckDuckGo.

 

1. Install ddgr via Homebrew (from the same developer as googlr)

 

2. Download the Alfred Googler workflow mentioned above

 

3. Open the workflow in Finder, and in the "google_instant.rb" file, change

results = Lightly.new(life: '4h').get query do
  JSON.parse `/usr/local/bin/googler --json -n 9 #{query}`
end

 

to:

results = Lightly.new(life: '4h').get query do
  JSON.parse `/usr/local/bin/ddgr --json -n 9 #{query}`
end

[Elfred]

FYI: on M1 macs, the default location of the hombrew packages has changed. this worked for me:

 

results = Lightly.new(life: '4h').get query do
    JSON.parse `/opt/homebrew/bin/ddgr --json -n 9 #{query}`
end

 

Edited August 24, 2023 by Elfred

[xilopaint]

@dood @Elfred How did you guys manage to install googler? brew install googler throws an error because the repository has been archived:

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by xilopaint

[dood]

@xilopaint You should install ddgr instead