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Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by moondowner » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 2:36 PM UTC

xd wrote: post #10

Looking at the svn repo ( http://goosh.googlecode.com ) this project is over 2 years old.

Or to be more precise, over 2 years not updated.

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by apgwoz » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 2:38 PM UTC

zheng wrote: post #17

cleverjake wrote: post #2

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025039

Here's how I see reposts. I agree that people shouldn't just repost things because they were popular at one point, and they want the karma. However, realize that for people who weren't around when that was posted (over a year ago), this is pretty cool. There is also no way I would have ever thought "Hey, I wonder if there is a shell-esque interface to google? Oh, I bet HN will have a link about it! Let me go search!"…

I disagree. I want to see new stuff. There's plenty of worthy stuff that in /new that does't see the homepage because shit like this reappears every 6 months/1 year/whatever.

edit: emphasized what kind of stuff in /new

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by lloeki » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 2:40 PM UTC

Gah. "sudo make me a sandwich" returns actual results.

There has to be a few easer eggs.

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by tybris » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 2:40 PM UTC

I'm just shocked that something that uses a Google search API survived for more than 2 years.

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by mquander » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 2:42 PM UTC

zheng wrote: post #17

cleverjake wrote: post #2

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025039

Here's how I see reposts. I agree that people shouldn't just repost things because they were popular at one point, and they want the karma. However, realize that for people who weren't around when that was posted (over a year ago), this is pretty cool. There is also no way I would have ever thought "Hey, I wonder if there is a shell-esque interface to google? Oh, I bet HN will have a link about it! Let me go search!"…

Apparently you like re-flamewars, too. Can't we leave this kind of stuff for meta posts?

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by eneveu » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 2:44 PM UTC

That's cool, but I like the Google Command Line interface even more:

http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

I was blown away the first time I edited Google doc using vim, hit ":wq" (save), and saw my changes reflected instantly in my browser, where I had opened the same document.

The Oauth authentication was also pretty cool. Instead of asking for your Google credentials every time / saving them on your machine, the first GoogleCL use opens a browser window, prompts you to log into your Google Account, and asks you to authorize the Google CL client. You may then revoke this permission at any time (like any Oauth token).

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by emwa » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 2:49 PM UTC

typed pwd got search results.

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by MikeKusold » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 2:56 PM UTC

'su root' doesn't seem to work. It just shows search results. I'll file a bug report.

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by hutushen222 » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 2:57 PM UTC

cool

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by kordless » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 3:13 PM UTC

keyle wrote: post #11

Wow I've been thinking of writing something very similar lately using nodejs and parsing the html (maybe using lynx --dump). But this is pretty much as good idea and blazing fast!

Like this? https://github.com/fictivekin/webshell