Maven Central Search Script

queryMavenCentral.sh

#/usr/bin/env bash

if [ "$#" -lt 1 ] || [ -z "$1" ]; then
    >&2 echo "Usage: $0 searchTerm [searchResultLimit] # default searchResultLimit is 5"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$(command -v python)" ]; then
    >&2 echo "$0 requires python to be installed and in the current PATH"
    exit 1
fi

queryMavenCentral() {
    echo "--"
    
    wget "http://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=$1&rows=${2:-5}&wt=json" -q --output-document - \
        | python -m json.tool \
        | grep -A 1 '"id"' || echo "No results found"
    
    echo "--"
}

queryMavenCentral "$1" $2