https://github.com/igrigorik/omnipipe

web pipes for your browser's omnibar!
https://github.com/igrigorik/omnipipe

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web pipes for your browser's omnibar!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/igrigorik/omnipipe
• Owner: igrigorik
• Created: 2011-09-19T06:04:27.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-09-22T06:42:41.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-08T18:35:35.729Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://omnipipe.herokuapp.com/
• Size: 90.8 KB
• Stars: 12
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Omnipipe

"What if the URL bar supported unix pipe semantics? ex: "http://longurl.com | bitly", "http://foo.cn | translate english", ..."

Demo @ [http://omnipipe.herokuapp.com/](http://omnipipe.herokuapp.com/)

## How does it work?

Unfortunately Chrome doesn't provide an API to listen to "url submit" events, but we can approximate what this functionality would "feel" like by creating and leveraging a custom search engine. This "search engine" simply takes in the URL and the pipe parameters as a query string, and then does the right thing.

## Example commands

* **googl**: Take the input URL, shorten it via goo.gl shortener and redirect me to the resulting page.

* **grep**: World's simplest grep.. Download the page, walk over the content line by line and output matching lines.

For instructions on how to install & use, check [http://omnipipe.herokuapp.com/](http://omnipipe.herokuapp.com/)

### License

MIT License - Copyright (c) 2011 Ilya Grigorik