Labs/Ubiquity/Commands In The Wild

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LEGAL NOTICE: Mozilla is providing links to these third-party Ubiquity commands as a courtesy, and makes no representations regarding the commands or any information related there to. Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the commands must be directed to the appropriate developer or software vendor.

Commands in the Wild

Please note that the main way we'd like commands to be distributed and shared in the future is via The Ubiquity Herd. Right now there isn't any social functionality on the Herd, though, which is why we're using this page to allow for user-contributed commentary and discussion. At some point in the near future we'll be adding this kind of functionality to the Herd and will migrate the content on this page there.

There Be Dragons Here

Pioneering can be crazy fun, but also a bit dangerous. The commands referenced here have not been reviewed by Mozilla. They may contain malicious code, so use them only at your own risk. Until Ubiquity becomes more mature, we recommend only adding commands that come from people you trust, or if you've read the code and know that they are safe. Trusting the

Commands

swies's commands: dog, clock, msdn

Abi's commands

Dietrich's commands

Gilbert's commands

Brandon's Commands: FriendFeed

Fuzzhead's Commands

Whatthechuck's commands

Nickworks's commands: Seeqpod, PHP.net

aufrank's commands: gfl, urej

calhoun_ftw's commands: newegg, pirate bay, more

mzzt.net commands: remove/replace selection, detach tab to new window, open chromeless window

FreakCERS's commands: latex

Google

These are extensions or re-write of the core commands

Google Scholar and Google Patent Searches

Reddit

Urdna's 'Reddit-This' command

Social Graph (FOAF/XFN etc)

DanBri's 'foaf' command (calls Google SGAPI)

Bitly

Shorten URL using bit.ly service: http://bit.ly/18Fsn2

nofollow

Preview counts no-follow links and execute highlights them.

Install Page:http://surfmind.com/lab/mozilla/ubiquity/nofollow.html Script: http://surfmind.com/lab/mozilla/ubiquity/nofollow.js Preview: http://flickr.com/photos/andyed/2767130077/in/photostream/

Del.icio.us

Adds the current page to your delicious bookmark!

Script: http://tinyurl.com/5u995k

To use, just type add-delicious + your tags.

Microformats

• Microformats Extraction commands available at http://transformr.co.uk/
  1. commands: get-atom from hAtom, get-vcard from hCard, get-events from hCalendar, and get-podcast from hAudio

Site-specific Search

• netflix - http://radria.sqlfusion.com/ubiquity.php
• Zootool - http://zootool.com/blog/2008/08/27/zootool-and-ubiquity/
• Freebase - http://hamstersoup.com/freebase/ubiquity/
• All Music Guide - http://a9ej32w.googlepages.com/allmusic

Pre 0.1 Style Commands (Now Broken)

1. Quote text for BB-style forums. Quotebb.js
2. Quotes HTML entities in your selection. quotehtml.js
3. Opens Gmail in a new tab, as well as showing you the last couple of new messages in the preivew. Gmail.s
4. Let's you Twitter from anywhere. This command has been moved into Ubiquity core. Twitter.js]
5. Another micro-blogging service like Twitter/Pounce/etc., but open source Essentially identical code to Twitter+Ubiquity above, except for renaming of constants and web addresses identica(2).js
6. DiggThis.js
7. Converts your selection to lower case. tolower.js