Personally, I prefer using official APIs whenever reasonable. They're supported, don't change, and require less network traffic. That said, sometimes there is no API, or the API just sucks.
- Blair On 23/02/2009 6:25 AM, Christian Sonne wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Abimanyu Raja <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Wonderful! Now, can we get previews for the all built-in commands > like Yahoo!, ask, etc? > > > Also, there's the question if we prefer using the APIs as we currently > do, or just search via the site (as the parser for makeSearchCommand > sortof assumes) > > Here is a list of the ones I've (re)made so far: > (ohh and btw, with recently checked in code, icon and description is > generated automatically if possible (and needed)) > > CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({ > name: "Google", > url: "http://www.google.com/search?q={QUERY}";, > parser: {container: "div ol", title: "h3.r", preview: "div.s"} > }); > > CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({ > name: "Wikipedia", > url: > "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={QUERY}&fulltext=Search > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={QUERY}&fulltext=Search>", > parser: {container: "ul.mw-search-results", > title: "li a", > preview: "div.searchresult", > baseurl: "http://en.wikipedia.org"} > }); > > CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({ > name: "IMDb", > url: "http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q={QUERY} > <http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q={QUERY}>", > parser: {container: "table#outerbody table table", > title: "td>a", > baseurl: "http://www.imdb.com"} > }); > > CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({ > name: "Yahoo", > url: "http://search.yahoo.com/search?p={QUERY}";, > parser: {container: "div#web", > title: "div h3", > preview: "div.abstr"} > }); > > CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({ > name: "Amazon", > url: > "http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords={QUERY} > <http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords={QUERY}>" > parser: {container: "div.listView", > title: "div.productTitle a", > preview: "div.productTitle span.ptBrand"} > }); > > Improvements and additions to the list are welcome :-) > > Some are definitely not yet as pretty as the originals - so I don't > think we should switch over indiscriminately... > > -- cers / Christian Sonne > > > - Abi > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
