Googer

A powerful, type-safe Google Search library for Python.

Googer provides an elegant Python interface for querying Google Search and receiving structured, typed results. Built with robustness in mind — featuring automatic retries, rate-limit detection, TLS fingerprint impersonation, and a fluent query builder.

Features

• Web Search — Full-text Google web search with pagination
• Image Search — Google Images with size, color, type, and license filters
• News Search — Google News with time filtering
• Video Search — Google Videos with duration filtering
• Advanced Query Builder — Fluent API for complex Google operators (site:, filetype:, intitle:, exact phrases, exclusions, date ranges, etc.)
• Anti-Detection — Rotating User-Agents (GSA/Chrome), TLS fingerprint impersonation via primp
• Automatic Retries — Exponential back-off with configurable retry count
• Rate-Limit Detection — Detects CAPTCHA/rate-limit pages and raises clear exceptions
• Proxy Support — HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 (with Tor Browser shorthand "tb")
• CLI Tool — googer command-line interface for all search types
• Type-Safe — Full type annotations, py.typed marker, mypy-strict compatible

Installation

pip install googer

Quick Start

Python API

from googer import Googer

# Simple search
results = Googer().search("python programming")
for r in results:
    print(r.title, r.href)

Advanced Query Builder

from googer import Googer, Query

# Build a complex query with operators
q = (
    Query("machine learning")
    .exact("neural network")
    .site("arxiv.org")
    .filetype("pdf")
    .exclude("tutorial")
)

results = Googer().search(q, max_results=20)

Search Categories

from googer import Googer

g = Googer()

# Web search
web = g.search("python", region="ko-kr", max_results=10)

# Image search with filters
images = g.images("cute cats", size="large", color="color")
for img in images:
    print(img.title, img.image)

# News search — last 24 hours
news = g.news("artificial intelligence", timelimit="d")
for n in news:
    print(n.title, n.source, n.date)

# Video search — short videos only
videos = g.videos("python tutorial", duration="short")
for v in videos:
    print(v.title, v.url, v.duration)

Context Manager & Proxy

from googer import Googer

# With proxy (also supports GOOGER_PROXY env var)
with Googer(proxy="socks5://127.0.0.1:9150") as g:
    results = g.search("privacy tools")

# Tor Browser shorthand
with Googer(proxy="tb") as g:
    results = g.search("onion sites")

CLI

# Web search
googer search -q "python programming" -m 5

# News — past week
googer news -q "AI" -t w

# Images — large, creative commons
googer images -q "landscape" --size large --license creative_commons

# Videos — short duration
googer videos -q "cooking" --duration short

# Save to file
googer search -q "python" -o results.json
googer search -q "python" -o results.csv

# With proxy
googer search -q "python" --proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:9150

# Version
googer version

CLI Options

Option	Short	Description
--query	-q	Search query (required)
--region	-r	Region code (default: us-en)
--safesearch	-s	on, moderate, off (default: moderate)
--timelimit	-t	h (hour), d (day), w (week), m (month), y (year)
--max-results	-m	Maximum results (default: 10)
--proxy		Proxy URL
--timeout		Timeout in seconds (default: 10)
--output	-o	Save to .json or .csv file
--no-color		Disable colored output

Configuration

Environment Variable	Description
GOOGER_PROXY	Default proxy URL

Architecture

googer/
├── __init__.py          # Public API: Googer, Query
├── googer.py            # Main Googer class (orchestrator)
├── config.py            # Constants, URLs, XPath selectors
├── exceptions.py        # Exception hierarchy
├── http_client.py       # HTTP client with retries & anti-detection
├── parser.py            # XPath-based HTML parser
├── query_builder.py     # Fluent query builder (Query)
├── results.py           # Typed result dataclasses
├── user_agents.py       # User-Agent rotation
├── ranker.py            # Relevance ranking
├── utils.py             # Text/URL normalization helpers
├── cli.py               # Click-based CLI
└── engines/
    ├── base.py          # Abstract base engine
    ├── text.py          # Web/text search
    ├── images.py        # Image search
    ├── news.py          # News search
    └── videos.py        # Video search

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• primp — HTTP client with TLS impersonation
• lxml — Fast HTML/XML parsing
• click — CLI framework

License

Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.md for details.