Unable to get Google definitions to Standard Output

Question

I aim to filter my Google results right at terminal such that I get only Google's definitions.

I am trying to run the following in Mac's terminal

open http://www.google.com/search?q=define:cars&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8:en-GB:official&client=vim

A similar command for Firefox is

open http://www.google.com/search?q=define:cars&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

Which client can you use to have Google's html page to your standard output?

Answer 1

To use Google search not through their web interface, you're almost certainly better off using their API.

However, I think curl is the right tool to use to download a web page if that's what you have to do (and it probably isn't)

Answer 2

"GET"

GET 'http://www.google.com/search?q=define:cars&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8:en-GB:official&client=vim'

See also "HEAD".

The command can be installable on Gnu/Linux OS:

[elcuco@pinky ~]$ rpm -qf `which GET`
perl-libwww-perl-5.808-2mdv2008.1

In theory you could also use "wget" and output to stdout using something like this:

wget http://www.google.com -O - --quiet

However I cannot get it to work with this example URL.