Yubnub
I love Yubnub! Yubnub.org is "a (social) command line for the web." The commands are entered into the big text field, and they range from "g", Google search, to "random", get a random number. No more going to IMDb.com, looking for the search box, and waiting for a response. Yubnub can search other search engines! Enter the command for the search engine followed by the search terms.
Examples:
g dogs
searches Google for dogs.
yim cats
searches Yahoo! images for cats.
yn.py
This is my Python script for opening Yubnub results in the browser. It also shows a plain version of the same HTML in the console.
yn.rb
This is a Rubyized version of yn.py, made much simpler. It allows me to call
% yn wikigo 42
which opens the first Wikipedia result for "42".
yn.rb uses the Mac bash command "open" to open the Yubnub page in the default browser. Note that "open" uses spaces to delineate paths; to correctly open a URL, join the parts with either + or %20.
Quicksilver + Yubnub
Quicksilver can open a Yubnub search. LifeClever has a howto.
Firefox + Yubnub
Convert your browser's address bar into a Yubnub command line.
