Take random sentences out of a text and check if a search engine finds sites containing it.
Example:
$ cat my-text.txt | npx roogle | sh
Usage: roogle [options]
Options:
-v, --version output the version number
-l, --length [chars] Minimum amount of characters in a selected sentence (default: 50)
-n, --sentences [num] Amount of sentences to randomly select (default: 5)
-r, --raw Write raw sentences without url-encode and with punctuation.
-p, --prefix [prefix] Add a prefix to the sentences (default: "open \"https://www.google.com/search?q=")
-s, --suffix [suffix] Add a suffix to the sentences (default: "\"")
-P, --disable-prefix Removes the prefix
-S, --disable-suffix Removes the suffix
-h, --help output usage information
To get roogle running with PDFs, we need to do these steps:
- Install xpdf, as it includes the
pdftotextcommand - Use
pdftotextto stream the text intoroogle - Open the resulting URLs
$ brew install xpdf
$ pdftotext -enc UTF-8 my-pdf.pdf - | npx roogle
If you're using MacOS, you can pipe the output into sh to let the OS open the URLs directly.
$ pdftotext -enc UTF-8 my-pdf.pdf - | npx roogle | sh
If you're using Linux, you might want to use xdg-open instead of the regular open to be able to pipe it into a shell.
$ pdftotext -enc UTF-8 my-pdf.pdf - | npx roogle --prefix 'xdg-open "https://www.google.com/search?q=' | sh
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