google-advanced-search v1.0.4

google-advanced-search

A simple tool to google with easy advanced search settings.

You can use this both...

• as a CLI tool to help you to google more easily and quickly
• as a library to generate a search URL for your projects

Installation

npm install google-advanced-search

Usage

$ npx advsearch -h
Usage: advsearch [options]

Options:
  -c, --configure    configure the default filter settings
  -t, --temporary    set temporary filter (does not apply the default filter settings)
  -n, --not-opening  display the result URL without opening your browser
  -h, --help         display help for command

Quick Start 1 (to use as a CLI tool)

Do google search with default filter settings

npx advsearch

Change and save your filter settings

npx advsearch -c

Other options

Set a temporary filter (without appling it to the default filter settings)

npx advsearch -t

Display the result URL without opening it in your browser

npx advsearch -n

Quick Start 2 (to use as a library)

Example:

// example.js
import { Filter, QueryFieldGroup, UrlBuilder } from 'google-advanced-search'

const query = new QueryFieldGroup({ queryWords: 'what is bullet train', except: 'movie' })
const filter = new Filter({
  language: 'English',
  region: 'any',
  lastUpdate: 'pastYear',
  siteOrDomain: 'wikipedia.org',
  termsAppearing:'anywhereInThePage',
  safeSearch: 'showExplicitResults',
  fileType: 'any',
  usageRights: 'any'
})
const urlBuilder = new UrlBuilder()

console.log(urlBuilder.generateGoogleSearchUrl(query, filter))

You will get:

$ node example.js
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=what+is+bullet+train&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=movie&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=lang_en&cr=&as_qdr=y&as_sitesearch=wikipedia.org&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&tbs=

Parameters

You can set these parameters below as a search filter. If you didn't specify them, the filter is set to the default values.

For Search Key Words

They are properties of QueryFieldGroup.

For Result Filter

Language codes and region codes were taken from the following site:

XML API reference appendices  |  Programmable Search Engine  |  Google Developers

Language

Region

Last update

Safe search

Terms appearing

File type

|any |pdf| |ps| |dwf| |kml| |kmz| |xls| |ppt| |doc| |rtf| |swf|

Usage rights