Google Command Line

Project homepage:
http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

It is originally for *nix, but can also be used on Windows:
http://publicint.blogspot.com/2010/06/setup-googlecl-on-winxp.html

From the usage examples:

Blogger

• google blogger post --tags "GoogleCL, awesome" --title "Test Post" "I'm posting from the command line"
• google blogger post blogpost.txt
• google blogger list title,url-site # List posts
• google blogger delete --title "Test Post"
• google delete --title "Silly post number [0-9]*" # Delete posts matching regex
• google tag --title "Dev post" --tags "Python, software" # label an existing post

Calendar

• google calendar add "Dinner party with George today at 6pm" # add event to calendar
• google calendar today # List events for today only.
• google calendar list --date 2010-06-01,2010-06-30 # List events.
• google calendar delete --title "Dinner party with George" # Delete an event.

Contacts

• google contacts add "J. Random Hacker, jrandom@example.com"
• google contacts list name,email --title "J. Random Hacker"
• google contacts delete --title "J. Random Hacker"

Docs

• google docs delete --title "Evidence"
• google docs edit --title "Shopping list" --editor vim
• google docs get --title "Homework [0-9]*"
• google docs list title,url-direct --delimiter ": " # list docs
• google docs upload the_bobs.csv ~/work/docs_to_share/*

Picasa

• google picasa create --title "Vermont Test" --tags Vermont vermont.jpg
• google picasa get --title "Vermont Test" /path/to/download/folder
• google picasa list title,url-direct --query "A tag"
• google picasa post --title "Vermont Test" ~/old_photos/*.jpg # Add to an album
• google picasa tag --title "Vermont Test" --tags "places"
• google picasa delete --title "Vermont Test" # delete entire album

Youtube

• google youtube post --category Education --devtags GoogleCL killer_robots.avi
• google youtube delete --title "killer_robots.avi"
• google youtube list # list my videos
• google youtube tag -n ".*robot.*" --tags robot

Search, Buzz, Gmail, etc.

Get IMDB movie rating using JavaScript (Cross domain AJAX solution)

UPDATE: I modified my script to use imdbparser.appspot.com that I built, so the information is always accurate and it works fast.
This query:

https://imdbparser.appspot.com/?callback=foo&context=bar&action=rating&id=tt0411008

Gives this result: foo('bar', '8.7')

So you can write something like that:

<script type="text/javascript">

function foo(context, rating)

{

  alert("The rating is: " + rating);

}
</script>

<script src="https://imdbparser.appspot.com/?callback=foo&context=bar&action=rating&id=tt0411008" type="text/javascript">
</script>

Original Post:



Solution to what exactly?

In JavaScript you aren't suppose to communicate with other sites, such as IMDB. As a result, you can't get the rating of a movie just like that.
For more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy

Example: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

How to use it in your website?

Put this code in the top of the page:

<script src="http://sites.google.com/site/ycouriel/files/imdbrating.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>

Put this code each time you want to get rating:

<script type="text/javascript"> IMDBRATING.registerTitle("tt0068646");</script>

Finally, put this code in the bottom of the page: 

<script type="text/javascript"> IMDBRATING.processTitles();</script>
You also need to put this CSS if you want the nice stars: imdbrating.css

How it's done?

The trick is to use Google. Consider the following query:

http://www.google.com/uds/GwebSearch?callback=IMDBRATING.ratingCallback&context=tt0497465&lstkp=0&rsz=small&hl=en&source=gsc&gss=.com&sig=d5fae37fdfdac0a0e1e1aa0c8bc4b04c&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0497465%2F%20rating%2010%20site%3Aimdb.com&gl=www.google.com&key=notsupplied&v=1.0

You get in return:
IMDBRATING.ratingCallback( <search results here> );
This wonderful feature of Google allows you to write a query as the source of JavaScript: 

<script src=" <the query above here> " type="text/javascript"> </script>

By parsing the search results, you can easily find the rating.

Notes:

• This is a JavaScript solution; if you have a server running PHP or something you can put some page like Google's, only instead of search results you return the ratings. This could be wonderful, but all the websites on the Internet that do exactly that didn't work for me or were very slow.
• The rating you get is sometimes not updated, it entirely depends on how often Google database is updated.

How to grab Google autocomplete list

We all know this wonderful feature:

Automation of grabbing that list can be helpful for instance if you want to know what people are looking for.

While typing in the search box, somewhere there is a Javascript code that makes the following HTTP GET request:

http://www.google.com/complete/search?hl=en&q=QUERY&cp=LEN(QUERY)

For example, the following query gives the same results as in the picture:
http://www.google.com/complete/search?hl=en&q=how%20to%20be%20better%20at%20&cp=20

window.google.ac.h(["how to be better at ",[
["how to be better at halo 3","43,100,000 results","0"],
["how to be better at basketball","87,500,000 results","1"],
["how to be better at math","52,900,000 results","2"],
["how to be better at soccer","88,300,000 results","3"],
["how to be better at football","207,000,000 results","4"],
["how to be better at beer pong","2,760,000 results","5"],
["how to be better at call of duty 4","72,600,000 results","6"],
["how to be better at madden","25,900,000 results","7"],
["how to be better at volleyball","9,370,000 results","8"],
["how to be better at chess","15,300,000 results","9"]]])