A simple command-line tool written in Odin that fetches web pages or searches the web via DuckDuckGo’s HTML interface, then formats the response as readable plain text.

>go2web.exe -s:"Apples"
(Apple - Wikipedia)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple]

(25 Types of Apples - Jessica Gavin)[https://www.jessicagavin.com/types-of-apples/]

(Apples 101: Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits)[https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/apples]

(Apple)[https://www.apple.com]

(6 Healthiest Types of Apples for Digestion, Blood Sugar, and Gut Health)[https://www.verywellhealth.com/healthiest-types-of-apples-11905297]

(All the types of apples (almost) and what to use them for in one place)[https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/10/24/apple-types-varieties-guide/75721107007/]

(Apple | Fruit, Types, Nutrition, Cultivation, & Facts | Britannica)[https://www.britannica.com/plant/apple-fruit-and-tree]

(iSpace - oficial Apple Premium Partner in Moldova)[https://ispace.md]

(The 10 Best Apples to Eat Fresh, According to a Fruit Expert)[https://www.marthastewart.com/best-apples-to-eat-fresh-11832852]

(Apples: Nutrition and Health Benefits - WebMD)[https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/benefits-apples]

go2web.exe -u:"https://example.com"
()["https://iana.org/domains/example"]Title: Example Domain


# Example Domain
This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. Avoid use in operations.
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• Make GET requests to HTTP and HTTPS URLs with automatic redirect handling (up to 10 redirects).
• Decode gzip and chunked transfer encoding.
• Parse HTML and extract text, links, headings, lists, and images as plain text.
• Search DuckDuckGo using the -s flag and display the top results in a clean format.
• Local response caching (10‑second TTL) to avoid repeated network requests.

• Odin compiler – Installation guide

• OpenSSL development libraries (e.g. libssl-dev on Debian/Ubuntu, openssl on macOS via Homebrew)

• Two custom Odin packages are vendored as git submodules:

  • odin-html – HTML parser
  • odin-http – Library for HTTP/S

  These are automatically checked out when cloning with:

  git clone --recurse-submodules <repo-url>

  If you have already cloned the repository without submodules, run:

  git submodule update --init

  The submodules live at the paths expected by the import statements (odin-html and odin-http).

odin build .

The -file flag treats the file as a standalone script. If you structure the project with packages, adjust accordingly.

# Fetch a URL and display its content
./httpcli -u "https://example.com"

# Search for a term using DuckDuckGo
./httpcli -s "odin programming language"

Flags -u and -s are mutually exclusive. If both are provided, an error is shown.

Responses are cached in the cache/u/ (for URLs) and cache/s/ (for searches) directories. A cache entry is valid for 10 seconds; after that, a fresh request is made.

• HTTPS is handled via OpenSSL using the odin-http/openssl package.
• HTTP requests use Odin’s built‑in net package.
• HTML parsing is done with odin-html.
• Gzip decompression uses Odin’s core:compress/gzip.
• Output is printed to stdout after basic formatting.

• This tool was tested with simple websites and DuckDuckGo’s html.duckduckgo.com endpoint. Complex JavaScript‑driven sites will not render correctly.
• The search functionality relies on DuckDuckGo’s HTML version and may break if the site’s structure changes.

No license specified – use at your own discretion.