nixpkgs searches search.nixos.org for packages and prints their infos

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# nixpkgs queries and parses search.nixos.org in a dirty way
channel=22.05
sort_mode=relevance
max_wait=10000

function usage() {
    echo "Usage:"
    echo "$(basename ""$0"") SEARCH_TERM"
    exit 1
}

function bail() {
    echo "$2"
    exit "$1"
}

function get_html() {
    url="https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=${channel}&from=0&size=50&sort=${sort_mode}&type=packages&query=${1}"
    chromium-browser \
             --headless \
             --dump-dom \
             --disable-gpu \
             --run-all-compositor-stages-before-draw \
             --virtual-time-budget=${max_wait} \
             "$url" 2>/dev/null
}

[[ $# -gt 0 ]] || usage
html=$(get_html "$1")
json=$(<<< "$html" pup .search-results li.package json{})
<<< "$json" jq -e '.. | select(type == "array" and length == 0)' > /dev/null && bail 2 "Timed out... turn up max_wait?"
<<< "$json" jq -r '.[] | "\u001b[1;37m\(.children[2].children[0].children[0].text)\u001b[0m \u001b[37m\(.children[2].children[1].children[0].text) \u001b[1;30m\(.children[0].children[0].text)\u001b[0m \(.children[1].text)"'