Ducker

Ducker 2.0.1 released

2017-04-08T23:03:00+02:00

Ducker 2.0.1 has been released. Several features have been added.

New Features

Include an interactive mode
Add --np, --noprompt, --json, --noua, -p, --proxy, --site, -t, --time, --colors, -C, --nocolor, -x, --exact, -c, --reg, -n, --count, -s, --start options.
Small code improvements

Upgrading from previous versions

If you used pip to install Ducker, you can upgrade executing pip install -U ducker.

If you got it cloning the git repository, execute git pull in the repository folder to upgrade.

If you downloaded the .zip or .tar.gz from https://notabug.org/Ducker/ducker/releases or https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ducker, just replace the old version.

Some development updates

2017-03-19T19:12:00+01:00

It's great to have an interactive mode, but it's still very buggy. That's the reason why I haven't made a new release yet. The most important problem now is that Ducker doesn't support proper page navigation. I made a little hack to support it up to result 30, but I should find a better solution before the next release. Besides, I think it would be great to be able to open various search results at the same time from the interactive mode.

When I solve those issues, I'll update the documentation. Hopefully, we can publish the 2.0 release within the next two weeks and you won't find many bugs.

Other news: Ducker is now a Peers Community project. Peers Community is a community of people interested in free software and free culture. This is the same community that runs NotABug, which is where Ducker's code repository is currently hosted. I want to thank the Peers community for providing hosting to free software projects like this one and for finding some bugs in Ducker.

Interactive mode

2017-01-10T22:47:00+01:00

Recently, I discovered a program called ddgr. It allows making searchs from the command line with DuckDuckGo, but it's not exactly like Ducker. It doesn't launch the search in the browser, but directly in the terminal. From there you can choose which search result you want to open with the browser.

However, that program was incomplete, not up-to-date and it contained unncesary code. I've made some contributions to make it better and I've included its functionality in Ducker. That is, Ducker has now an interactive mode that allows showing results from searches in the terminal if it's launched without parameters.

Nonetheless, there are still necessary some improvements before publishing a new release.

Ducker 1.1.0 released

2017-01-04T09:33:00+01:00

Ducker 1.1.0 has been released. Some changes have been made.

Changes

Remove not working search categories. This means that -a, --audio-search, --meaning-search, -n, --news-search, -s and --stocks-search options won't exist anymore
Add Bash autocompletion file
Support more documentation formats
Little code fixes

Upgrading from previous versions

If you used pip to install Ducker, you can upgrade executing pip install -U ducker. You should take into account that some search categories have been removed because they weren't working.

If you got it cloning the git repository, execute git pull in the repository folder to upgrade.

If you downloaded the .zip or .tar.gz from https://notabug.org/Ducker/ducker/releases or https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ducker, just replace the old version.

New online documentation

2016-12-09T17:09:00+01:00

Ducker has now online documentation. You can read it at http://www.freakspot.net/programas/ducker/docs/. It's also available in the docs folder from the Ducker repository.

Ducker 0.5.3 released

2016-12-04T15:10:00+01:00

Ducker 0.5.3 has been released. Some changes have been made.

Changes

Change homepage URL to point to http://programas.freakspot.net/ducker/
Fix readme error

Upgrading from previous versions

If you used pip to install Ducker, you can upgrade executing pip install -U ducker.

If you got it cloning the git repository, execute git pull in the repository folder to upgrade.

If you downloaded the .zip or .tar.gz from https://notabug.org/Ducker/ducker/releases or https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ducker, just replace the old version.

Ducker 0.5.1 released

2016-12-04T02:17:00+01:00

Ducker 0.5.1 has been released. Several features have been added.

New Features

Add -H and --no-javascript options to search with DuckDuckGo without using JavaScript through DuckDuckGo HTML version: https://duckduckgo.com/html/
Add -l and --lite options to search with DuckDuckGo using its lite interface (very convenient for text-based browsers)
Add customization section in readme to help users customize Ducker

Upgrading from previous versions

If you used pip to install Ducker, you can upgrade executing pip install -U ducker.

If you got it cloning the git repository, execute git pull in the repository folder to upgrade.

If you downloaded the .zip or .tar.gz from https://notabug.org/Ducker/ducker/releases or https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ducker, just replace the old version.

Ducker page submitted to the Free Software Directory

2016-11-27T01:40:00+01:00

I've submitted a page for Ducker to the Free Software Directory. Now we are waiting for its approval.

Ducker website

2016-11-26T20:34:00+01:00

Welcome to the new website of Ducker. I've decided to create this website using Pelican and host it in my own server because the submission of the Ducker project in Savannah was very slow. I thought Pelican was a great choice because:

It is written in Python, just like Ducker
It is easy to distribute the source code of the website in a repository and, thus, increase contributions
We can use RSS
It Allows translations

This website is free software (here is the source code), so you can submit articles, corrections, translations or whatever you think is necessary to improve it. Every time a new release of Ducker is made, we should create a new article with the release tag.