Tools

Keywords

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Principle

List of the keywords I use with Firefox and Vimperator to browse the web.

inmybooks = Google Books Own Library search, searches within my list of read books
- based on inbook
- see Google Books API to further automatize, in particular book addition
lyrics = Search LyricWiki
inbook = search within a book
- Vimperator multi-parameter search
meteo = Météo-France weather search by city name or area code
map = OpenStreetMap Nominatim Search
etyen = myEtymology.com: English etymology
etyfr = myEtymology.com: French etymology
person = Person Search Results
chat = search across discussion logs
gene = NCBI Genes DB
tws = twitter search
tw = twitter user
film = megavideo real-time search from Collecta
pmwiki = PmWiki search
man = UNIX man pages
brain = search across multiple personal wikis
- consider the wikis internal search engine
pubmed = search with PubMed
rt = real-time search with Collecta
tongue : reverse dictionnary lookup (against the tip of the tongue effect)
tte : translate to English
- binded to E
news : my selected set of news by country code
- works with country code like "fr" or "ca" (support multiple countries by separating them with "," for example "us,uk,fr,ca")
play : search YouTube playlists
td : twitter search on "down" and they keyword
page2rss : Page2RSS
citizendium : Citizendium search
sp : Scholarpedia search
geoip : GeoIP resolution from MaxMind
tef : Google Translate, English to French
tfe : Google Translate, French to English
ms : Google Gmail search
- works with keywords like word to:email@domain.tld
vid : Google Video
veoh : Veoh
abv : Abbreviations
tv : Google TimeView
ut : YouTube
bt : IsoHunt
se : Seedea
radio : TopRadio
isbn : ISBN db
imdb : IMDB (Title only)
doi : DOI resolver
img : Google Images
we : Wikipedia English
wf : Wikipedia French
wte : Wiktionary English
wtf : Wiktionary French
isgd : is.gd

Example

imdb mindwalk in my url line will open IMDB.com search restricted to titles containing "mindwalk"

Going further

query with irssi (see my learning notes)
- returning either the title or the first relevant sentence of sth after updating itself with the source version of this page
- Example : /k geoip IP and it would return 1 line + URL
- see existing irssi scripts that queries webservers
- see also surfraw
convert Firefox keywords to PmWiki InterMap
- cat ~/firefoxprofile/bookmarkbackups/bookmarks-LAST.json | sed "s/,{/\n/g" | grep keyword | sed 's/.*uri":"\(.*\)","keyword":"\(.*\)"}.*/\2: \1/' | sed "s/%.//" > ~/web/mywiki/local/localmap.txt
- resulting JSON file (as of early July 2009) to import in Firefox
- Path:/pub/toolsfiles/Firefox-bookmark-keywords-2010-05-17.json non modified Firefox bookmark file of mid May 2010
- Path:/pub/toolsfiles/Firefox-bookmark-keywords-2010-07-13.json non modified Firefox bookmark file of early July 2010
AltSearchEngines alias ASE
Using Weave and its API
serchilo - command the web for even more commands

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.