Work in progress for personal use, use at your own discretion. Feel free to modify any way you like.
This is a simple script that lets you search Google and query Gemini directly from the terminal, neatly displaying the results. You can query several models/engines at once, responses being printed as they are received.
Persistent chat has now been added, as well as an input function that allows for multi-line queries and pasted content (if no more than three newline chars in sequence inside the pasted content).
Disclaimers:
- Google Search will often fail to return responses. I will look into porting parts of the API as it is unreliable at the moment.
- Different terminals handle pasting a bit differently, and some seem to cap the pasted content at about 4000 characters.
- Python 3.12.3 (tested on macOS. Linux compatibility is unconfirmed)
- Google-Search-API by abenassi
- Google's Gemini API
- Install Google Search API
pip3 install git+https://github.com/abenassi/Google-Search-API
- After installing googleapi you need to patch it, as it no longer works:
- Navigate to python site-packages, on MacOS default location is
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/googleapi/modules/ - Replace 'standard_search.py' with the file with the same name provided in the repository inside folder "for_googleapi"
- Install Gemini API and get a free API key
pip3 install google-generativeai
- Export your API keys as environment variables. For bash, sh, zsh:
export GEMINI_API=your_key
Running the script with no arguments will prompt you for necessary information.
For detailed information, use:
msearch -help
I recommend setting an environment alias for easy access:
alias msearch="python ~/path/to/script/script.py"
To query one or more clients, enter your query enclosed in double qoutes followed by one or more client aliases:
msearch "query" gflash
or just:
msearch "query" // Defaults to gemini-flash
You can add any number of clients to query:
msearch gflash gpro ...
The query is signified by double quotes, and must be the first argument provided if provided. Other arguments do not rely on position, and can be mixed freely:
msearch "query" -command CLIENT_A -command CLIENT_B ...
Use -c to start a persistent chat session. This is also the default behavior if no query is provided.
As you receive responses they will be printed, as soon as one client responds you can read that response while waiting for the other clients to respond.
Requests will time out after 45 seconds.
| Client Alias | Model/Engine |
|---|---|
| gemini, gflash | Gemini 1.5 Flash |
| gpro | Gemini 1.5 Pro |
| Google Web Search |