https://github.com/mkearney/googler

googler: Google from the R Console
https://github.com/mkearney/googler

google google-search googler r r-package rstats

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googler: Google from the R Console

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mkearney/googler
• Owner: mkearney
• License: other
• Created: 2019-08-29T14:55:15.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-10-25T16:40:21.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-09T22:17:27.462Z (6 days ago)
• Topics: google, google-search, googler, r, r-package, rstats
• Language: R
• Size: 98.6 KB
• Stars: 14
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
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output: github_document

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```{r, include = FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  collapse = TRUE,

  comment = "#>",

  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",

  out.width = "100%"

)

options(width = 90)

library(googler)

```

# googler 

[![Travis build status](https://travis-ci.org/mkearney/googler.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/mkearney/googler)

[![Lifecycle: experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-experimental-orange.svg)](https://www.tidyverse.org/lifecycle/#experimental)

[![AppVeyor build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/github/mkearney/googler?branch=master&svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mkearney/googler)

This is a wrapper around the ['googler' command line tool](https://github.com/jarun/googler).

## Requirements

Python 3 must be installed and locatable

## Installation

You can install the development version of {googler} from [Github](https://github.com/mkearney/googler) with:

``` r

remotes::install_github("mkearney/googler")

```

## Examples

Search google with various options to specify things like the desired result **`count`**, google **`news`**, within a range of **`time`**, from a given **`site`**, etc.

### Example #1: Basic google search

```{r}

## search google for 'rstats'

googler("rstats")

```

### Example #2: Advanced google search

```{r}

## search google for 100 'rstats' or "R language" hits in English in past year

googler("rstats OR \"R language\"", count = 100, time = "y1", lang = "en")

```

### Example #3: Search google news

```{r}

## search google news for rstats/R language articles in the past three weeks

googler("rstats OR \"R language\"", news = TRUE)

```