baidusearch-cli

A TypeScript library for searching Baidu (百度搜索) programmatically. Inspired by library baidusearch-cli

Features

• 🚀 Simple and easy-to-use API
• 📦 Support both CommonJS and ES Modules
• 🔍 Get structured search results from Baidu
• 💪 Written in TypeScript with full type definitions
• 🛠️ CLI tool included
• ⚡ Built with modern tools (axios, cheerio)
• 🔄 Automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions
• 📝 Automatic changelog generation

Installation

npm install baidusearch-cli

Usage

As a Library

import { search } from 'baidusearch-cli';

// Basic usage
const results = await search('Node.js');
console.log(results);

// With options
const results = await search('TypeScript', {
  numResults: 20,
  debug: true,
});

results.forEach((result) => {
  console.log(`${result.rank}. ${result.title}`);
  console.log(`   ${result.abstract}`);
  console.log(`   ${result.url}\n`);
});

As a CLI Tool

# Install globally
npm install -g baidusearch-cli

# Basic search
baidusearch-cli "Node.js"

# Specify number of results
baidusearch-cli "TypeScript" 20

# Enable debug mode
baidusearch-cli "JavaScript" 10 1

Or use with npx:

npx baidusearch-cli "Node.js"

API

search(keyword: string, options?: SearchOptions): Promise<SearchResult[]>

Search Baidu with the given keyword.

Parameters

• keyword (string): The search keyword (required)
• options (SearchOptions): Optional configuration
  • numResults (number): Number of results to return (default: 10)
  • debug (boolean): Enable debug logging (default: false)

Returns

Promise of SearchResult[]:

interface SearchResult {
  title: string; // Result title
  abstract: string; // Result abstract/description
  url: string; // Result URL
  rank: number; // Result ranking
}

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

# Run in development mode
npm run dev

# Lint code
npm run lint
npm run lint:fix

# Format code
npm run format
npm run format:check

# Type check
npm run type-check

# Run tests
npm test

Scripts

Build

• npm run build - Build the project
• npm run dev - Watch mode for development
• npm run type-check - Type check without emitting files

Code Quality

• npm run lint - Lint TypeScript files
• npm run lint:fix - Fix linting issues
• npm run format - Format code with Prettier
• npm run format:check - Check code formatting

Release

• npm run release - Create a new release (auto-detects version bump)
• npm run release:patch - Create a patch release (1.0.x)
• npm run release:minor - Create a minor release (1.x.0)
• npm run release:major - Create a major release (x.0.0)

CI/CD

This project uses GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment:

Workflows

• CI (.github/workflows/ci.yml)

  • Runs on every push and pull request
  • Lints code with ESLint
  • Builds the project on Node.js 16, 18, and 20
  • Runs tests

• Release (.github/workflows/release.yml)

  • Triggers on version tags (e.g., v1.0.0)
  • Automatically generates changelog
  • Creates GitHub release
  • Publishes to NPM

• Publish (.github/workflows/publish.yml)

  • Manual workflow for publishing
  • Bumps version
  • Updates CHANGELOG.md
  • Publishes to NPM
  • Creates GitHub release

• CodeQL (.github/workflows/codeql.yml)

  • Security scanning
  • Runs weekly and on pushes to main

• Commitlint (.github/workflows/commitlint.yml)

  • Validates commit messages follow conventional commits

Publishing

Option 1: Manual Release

# Create a new release locally
npm run release:patch  # or minor/major

# Push tags
git push --follow-tags origin main

# The release workflow will automatically publish to NPM

Option 2: GitHub Actions Workflow

1. Go to Actions tab in GitHub
2. Select "Publish" workflow
3. Click "Run workflow"
4. Choose version bump type (patch/minor/major)
5. The workflow will handle version bump, changelog, and publishing

Setup Required

To enable automated publishing, add these secrets to your GitHub repository:

• NPM_TOKEN - Your NPM automation token (https://www.npmjs.com/settings/~/tokens)

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct and the process for submitting pull requests.

Commit Message Convention

This project follows Conventional Commits:

feat: add new feature
fix: bug fix
docs: documentation changes
style: formatting, missing semi colons, etc
refactor: code refactoring
perf: performance improvements
test: add missing tests
chore: maintenance tasks

License

MIT

Credits

This TypeScript version is based on the original Python implementation.