On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Richard Miller<9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >> although it uses http, twitter has got an api that you can use outside >> a browser. it's much the same with several others, including aws. >> there are reasonably clear descriptions of the messages, and you can >> construct >> and send them however you like, in which ever language you like. > > The 'stock' command (undocumented?) is a good example of this. > (It's a 14-line shell script): > > term% stock goog > "GOOG","Google Inc.",427.69,"7/22/2009",0.00,0 > > I have a similar little script to do currency conversions: > > term% currency usd eur > 1 US Dollar (USD) = 0.70403 Euro (EUR) > term% currency -d 10/30/2000 usd eur > 1 US Dollar (USD) = 1.19046 Euro (EUR) > > which is just a bit of syntactic sugar wrapped around this: > > hget > 'http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic?user=printable&exch='$xout'&expr='$xin'&value=1&date_fmt=us&date='$date > | grep '^[ ]*1 ' > > >
now if somebody can create a script to lookup words in dictionary.com preformatted without ads. :) -- http://www.fernski.com
