Command Line for the Web

flood6 writes "SearchEngineWatch offers a look at a new method of interacting with the Internet, YubNub. This 'social command line for the web' lets users create commands that interact with websites. Currently, most of the commands apply to search, but new commands could work with any site that accepts variables passed with HTML's GET command. For example, iap moon would search the Internet Archive for all media related to 'moon'."

Comments

AWESOME!

[mister_llah]

Now we can have old style Sierra adventures combined with the joy of Internet graphics...

Whee!

Command: GET SUBMIT BUTTON
"Ok! You got it."

Command: USE SUBMIT BUTTON ON POST
"You die." ...

blast, I was never very good at these games.

Expand it!

[caudron]

Maybe we could expand it to all parts in the Internet. Then people could do cool stuff like check their mail at the prompt, read newsgroups at the prompt, maybe even read each others blogs at the prompt. Hey, we could call it "telnet" or something really catchy. This is just crazy enough to work, guys! Who's with me?

I'm starting my CLI-accessable blog right away. I'm gonna call it the "Finger".

Ain't progress grand?

easier with firefox | opera

[^Z]

In FF, you can have bookmarks like this: http://livejournal.com/~%25s/ Give it a keyword (say, 'lj'), type in the URL line: lj someusername and someusername's livejournal opens. This is the simplest example. I have several more sophisticated; this mostly obviates the FF search box. And all this with a *very* simple syntax that only allows substitution of one string. Imagine something a bit more powerful in that place.