Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell | Hacker News Reader

Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell

goosh.org

91 pointsbomberstudios35 comments

Amazingly amazing unix-like shell for Google Services.

It's cool as a programming exercise, but I just can't see it being useful for me. If it can do something else, that might be cool, but it can't do much. ^k and dictionary bookmarks in firefox are far superior to using that shell.

Dictionary bookmarks, for all those unaware, are a beautiful feature I rarely hear about. For example, go to en.wikipedia.org and right click inside the search text box on the left. Click on 'Add a keyword for this search.' For name, put anything, for keyword i have 'w'. Now, whenever you are in the address bar (ctrl+l or alt+d to get there in windows/linux, apple+l in os x) you just type 'w plants' to get the wikipedia page on plants.

Go and try it, type ctrl+l, 'w firefox', enter. I almost can't live without it. And the same works for anything else, so google news can be 'gn', google images: 'gi', etc thus making that more useful goosh. goosh doesn't even have any of the features you'd want from a *nix shell like redirection.

Yeah, the dictionary bookmarks is probably the most hidden feature of FF, despite it saves time and is something each browser should have. I've stumbled upon it just recently, but I'm using it heavily every day since...

Ok, that is amazingly useful. I just added keywords for my most-used searches (generally special-purpose wikis). Way cool.

Firefox's Awesome Keywords are.. hmm.. awesome, but what if you need:

* a synchronization between different computers (the same keywords on different computers)

* to use other browser

* two or more parameters, e.g. to find Google Sets for "cat, and man"

* to combine multiple queries, e.g. to search for "hacker news" on Google and Yahoo

YubNub's examples:

  $ gset  man, cat

http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=gset%20man%2C%20cat

  $ ms2 hacker news; g y

http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=ms2%20hacker%20news%3...

Why is Google Code Search missing from the list?

guest@goosh.org:/web> news daum Error: Operation timed out (1212416829830).

guest@goosh.org:/web> news obama Error: Operation timed out (1212416850562).

guest@goosh.org:/web> 1 aiml Error: Operation timed out (1212416867098).

it's noscript

I see! Sorry. I totally forgot about that.

Then again, no. It's not noscript.

The really cool thing is that you can search and bring up the result sites without a mouse (or any mousless browsing extensions).

This is really cool, but you can set search shortcuts in Opera (and the other browsers too). Eg. I type 's xyz' to google search xyz. I have tons of other search shortcuts, like e for ebay, a for amazon, i for imdb, m for mininova, y for youtube, etc.

For my Firefox keywords, I have g for google search, map for google maps, gis for google image search, imdb for guess what, w for wikipedia search, py for local python module documentation lookup, modindex to flatly take me to the local python module index, def for google define, dict for dictionary.com, doc for local docs, and yt for youtube search.

Between that and having the left Windows-key bound to "Start a new terminal", I'm never more than a few keystrokes away from my thoughts.

That's brilliant! I didn't know about Firefox keywords until now. Thanks!

I thought it's supposed to save me time :)

to everybody with timeout errors: if you use the noscript firefox-extension you have to add "ajax.googleapis.com" to the whitelist.

so that was the problem.

To everyone who is listing google time out errors - this is in beta. 0.4.1-beta #1

I think it's an interesting idea. I like the idea of being able to use something like this when I'm on a "foreign" computer. Like a computer at my parents, friends or at school. By providing a web front end you don't HAVE to be on your perfectly configured box at home...

This seems to be giving me different results than google.com for many queries (examples: my name, "java", "specialtys") . I presume this is because searches I do on google.com are personalized to my search history and whatever other data google has on me...

I have no idea when or how I would ever need to use this beyond all the Firefox shortcuts I already have...but I have to say it's pretty damn cool. Slick UI, too.

Anybody use YubNub: "a command line for the Web" (http://yubnub.org)?

It's a similar idea that's been around for a few years.

http://www.masswerk.at/termlib/sample_socket.html

Googling for "goosh google" gives me lots of results on Goosh, but Gooshing (...) for the same gives me 0 results on Goosh.

Is this not live data?

Google has many datacenters. You probably used a different one then Goosh. Not everybody sees the same results on google.

I knew that there are many datacenters, but I expected them to be more or less in sync. However, the results have been totally different for many hours today, and are still only half the same.

Anyone know how how to make an "extension"? Help says:

load <extension_url> load an extension

"You can see an example module at http://goosh.org/ext/spon.js"

You quoted that-- sorry if this is a dumb question, but where did you find that information?

Thanks in advance.

It is in the source: http://goosh.org/goosh.js

Personally I think this is fantastically cool. It is just going to take me a little while to stop typing "ls -l" and "mutt" at the prompt.

Latest in "time sink" technology!

Love it.

Another timeout below:

guest@goosh.org:/web> = Error: Operation timed out (1212424763266).

Really cool, but I see it more as a curiosity than something useful.

If you like this then you'll probably like mudsh ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186849 ).

best thing I've seen around here in a while. I like it.

i'm going to waste way too much time on this

gobsmacked.

The next step is to integrate this into bash.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com