---
name: "searchgoo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "searchscripts"
version: "0.11"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/searchgoo"
---

# searchgoo(1)

query the Google usenet database

## NAME

searchgoo - query the Google usenet database

## DESCRIPTION

searchgoo is a commandline script to query the usenet database at groups.google.com, aka deja.com

## SYNOPSIS

searchgoo -H\
 searchgoo \[options\] pattern

## OPTIONS

- **-H**

  go to groups.google.com home page

- **-a author**

  - **-b**

  download message bodies too

- **-c yyyy mm dd**

  commence date; default is the last 2 years

- **-e yyyy mm dd**

  end date; default is the current date and "all" for all dates

- **-nn**

  search the last nn days

- **-g group**

  limit the search to only these groups; a trailing wildcard is allowed and "deb" is short for linux.debian.\*

- **-k**

  keep the hits file in /tmp

- **-m msg-id**

  Message-Id

- **-o**

  optional words (any of these)

- **-p words**

  include all of these words

- **-q phrase**

  phrase, as if quoted

- **-s subject**

  subject

- **-t nn**

  timeout in seconds, default 60

- **-u**

  unfiltered; skip Google's filter of like messages

- **-x words**

  exclude these words

- **-l language**

  ```
  cs  Czech     hu  Hungarian   no  Norwegian
  da  Danish    is  Icelandic   pl  Polish
  de  German    it  Italian     pt  Portuguese
  el  Greek     iw  Hebrew      ro  Romanian
  en  English   ja  Japanese    ru  Russian
  es  Spanish   ko  Korean      sv  Swedish
  et  Estonian  lt  Lithuanian  zh-CN Chinese(Simp.)
  fi  Finnish   lv  Latvian     zh-TW Chinese(Trad.)
  fr  French    nl  Dutch
  ```

## BROWSERS

If you use Netscape as your browser, the temp files will be left in /tmp and you'll have delete them occasionally.  These files are automatically deleted if you use a different browser.

## ENVIRONMENT

- **SSBROWSER**

  If this variable is set in the environment (e.g. export SSBROWSER=lynx) it is used.

- **X11BROWSER**

  Else if DISPLAY is set then the X11BROWSER environment variable is checked for the preferred browser.  If unset it defaults to lynx.

- **CONSOLEBROWSER**

  Else the CONSOLEBROWSER environment variable is checked for the preferred console browser.  If unset it defaults to lynx.

## NOTES

\- ^C attempts to show the hits to that point

## EXAMPLES

searchgoo -H\
 searchgoo -p python -x monty -a tim -b\
 searchgoo -q i am a jelly doughnut -b

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 2000 Rick Younie \<younie@debian.org\>, GPL version 2 or later. See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

## SEE ALSO

**[searchdeb(1)](/searchdeb/1.md),** **[searchgeo(1)](/searchgeo/1.md)**