Serchilo on your console

We’ve implemented a little new interface for all console lovers. By calling Serchilo with action=url, for instance:

http://serchilo.net/?action=url&query=g+berlin

you will not be redirected to the target site but will just get its URL:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=berlin&ie=utf-8

This can be very useful if you have a shell script on your system calling Serchilo with your query, getting the url, downloading the target page and filtering it through html2text.

If this script is called “s” and is located in a directory of $PATH and you’ve installed html2text you can do this:

$ s dbt berlin, hamburg | html2text
===============================================================================
****** Fahrplanauskunft ?bersicht ******

                                                  [frühere Verbindungen]
 +-------------------------+---------------------+----+--------+--------+
 |     Bahnhof ab          | Bahnhof an          | Um |   Ab   |   An   |
 +-------------------------+---------------------+----+--------+--------+
 |  1. Berlin Hbf (tief)   | Hamburg Hbf         |  0 |  05:18 |  07:07 |
 |  2. Berlin Hbf (tief)   | Hamburg Hbf         |  0 |  05:58 |  07:46 |
 |  3. Berlin Hbf (tief)   | Hamburg Hbf         |  0 |  07:18 |  08:57 |
 +-------------------------+---------------------+----+--------+--------+
                                                  [spätere Verbindungen]
  Anzeigeformen
      [Detail]
      [Reisebegleiter]

  Verweise
      Neue Anfrage
      Zur Hauptseite der Deutschen Bahn AG
===============================================================================
Software/Datenstand: HAFAS 5.23.DB.R5.50.c - 15.09.08
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Here’s the script, enjoy!

#!/bin/sh
SERCHILOQUERY="http://serchilo.net/?action=url&query=$@"
URL=`wget -qO - "$SERCHILOQUERY"`
if [ -n "$URL" ]
then
	wget -U "Firefox" -qO - "$URL"
fi