google scholar

[rpietro]

hi, I am trying to set an alias for google scholar using .googler_at. here is what I tried:

alias @gs='googler -w scholar.google.com/scholar' # gives me an error
alias @gs='googler -w scholar.google.com' # searches for people instead of the terms themselves

any thoughts on how to get it to work? thanks, this is a fantastic software

[zmwangx]

Unfortunately, Google Scholar search isn't a native functionality of googler. Only Search and News are supported.

[jarun]

However, from the received html data it seems googler can be extended to support it with some changes. If you are really interested, please raise a PR. We'll be glad to help out with the code understanding.

Tips:

netloc should be www.scholar.google.com and the path is /scholar instead of /search. These 2 changes, at the least, fetches the data you are looking for. Then you need to adapt the parser to handle scholarly results ;).

[jarun]

I have added it to the ToDo list. Please raise a PR directly if you implement it.

[zmwangx]

My detailed thoughts on why googler isn't equipped to handle Google Scholar can be found here: #209 (comment).