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goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell

Posted by kdawson on from the land-a-gooshen dept.

ohxten writes "Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It's essentially a browser-oriented, shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google (and images and news) and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format. This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while."

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  1. precisely why I don't have a gmail account by jdogalt · · Score: 1, Troll

    This sounds precisely like why I've never agreed to the google eula. I.e. if I wanted to write my own wrapper around google using wget and bash, I'd be violating their EULA TOS. Wheras without ever getting a gmail account or the like, I never have to click the EULA, and thus have never signed away my rights to perform automated queries.

    1. Re:precisely why I don't have a gmail account by jdogalt · · Score: 0, Troll

      If google has explicitly allowed wget and bash, please cite a reference.

      "
      5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.
      "