Free google hacks software for linux

Google Gears project is an open source Firefox extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:
- Store and serve application resources locally
- Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
- Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Google Search is a desktop tool with you can search anything you want on the Google engine direct from your desktop.

Installation:

To compile use qmake then make

Example:

bash: qmake mio.pro
bash: make
bash: ./mio

It uses firefox only. I will include konqueror in the next update.

Assign it a global shorcut.

Net::Google is a simple OOP-ish interface to the Google SOAP API.

SYNOPSIS

use Net::Google;
use constant LOCAL_GOOGLE_KEY => "********************************";

my $google = Net::Google->new(key=>LOCAL_GOOGLE_KEY);
my $search = $google->search();

# Search interface

$search->query(qw(aaron straup cope));
$search->lr(qw(en fr));
$search->starts_at(5);
$search->max_results(15);

map { print $_->title()."n"; } @{$search->results()};

# or...

foreach my $r (@{$search->response()}) {
print "Search time :".$r->searchTime()."n";

# returns an array ref of Result objects
# the same as the $search->results() method
map { print $_->URL()."n"; } @{$r->resultElements()};
}

# Spelling interface

print $google->spelling(phrase=>"muntreal qwebec")->suggest(),"n";

# Cache interface

my $cache = $google->cache(url=>"http://search.cpan.org/recent");
print $cache->get();

Provides a simple OOP-ish interface to the Google SOAP API

DBD::Google is a Perl module to treat Google as a datasource for DBI.

SYNOPSIS

use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Google:", $KEY);
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(qq[
SELECT title, URL FROM google WHERE q = "perl"
]);

while (my $r = $sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
...

DBD::Google allows you to use Google as a datasource; Google can be queried using SQL SELECT statements, and iterated over using standard DBI conventions.

WARNING: This is still alpha-quality software. It works for me, but that doesnt really mean anything.

Geo::Google is a Perl module to perform geographical queries using Google Maps.

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Geo::Google;

#My office
my $gonda_addr = 695 Charles E Young Dr S, Westwood, CA 90024;
#Stans Donuts
my $stans_addr = 10948 Weyburn Ave, Westwood, CA 90024;

#Instantiate a new Geo::Google object.
my $geo = Geo::Google->new();

#Create Geo::Google::Location objects. These contain
#latitude/longitude coordinates, along with a few other details
#about the locus.
my ( $gonda ) = $geo->location( address => $gonda_addr );
my ( $stans ) = $geo->location( address => $stans_addr );
print $gonda->latitude, " / ", $gonda->longitude, "n";
print $stans->latitude, " / ", $stans->longitude, "n";

#Create a Geo::Google::Path object.
my ( $donut_path ) = $geo->path($gonda,$stans);

#A path contains a series of Geo::Google::Segment objects with
#text labels representing turn-by-turn driving directions between
#the two loci.
my @segments = $donut_path->segments();

#This is the human-readable directions for the first leg of the
#journey.
print $segments[0]->text(),"n";

#Geo::Google::Segment objects contain a series of
#Geo::Google::Location objects -- one for each time the segment
#deviates from a straight line to the end of the segment.
my @points = $segments[1]->points;
print $points[0]->latitude, " / ", $points[0]->longitude, "n";

#Now how about some coffee nearby?
my @coffee = $geo->near($stans,coffee);
#Too many. How about some Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf?
@coffee = grep { $_->title =~ /Coffee.*?Bean/i } @coffee;

#Still too many. Lets find the closest with a little trig and
#a Schwartzian transform
my ( $coffee ) = map { $_->[1] }
sort { $a->[0] $b->[0] }
map { [ sqrt(
($_->longitude - $stans->longitude)**2
+
($_->latitude - $stans->latitude)**2
), $_ ] } @coffee;

Geo::Google provides access to the map data used by the popular Google Maps web application.

Ruby/Google offers a higher-level abstraction of Googles SOAP-driven Web API. Ruby/Google module allows the user to programatically query the Google search engine from Ruby.

The aim of the library is to shield the programmer from the details of the raw data structures returned by the Web API, and in the process make the API more accessible for everyday use.

Modular Google Talk Bot (gtalkbot) is a modular bot system for Google Talk and other Jabber IM networks.

It uses simple Python plug-ins that register verbs, which appear as the first word of an IM and result in another IM being sent back to the user. An example MythTV bot is included.

To run mbot:

- Write a plugin! There is a sample on in plugins/mythbot.py
- Create a password file at /usr/local/share/mbot/passwd

The format is:

< username >< tab >< password >

For example:

exampleuser@gmail.com banana

- Create a jabber or Google Talk account for the bot
- Start up mbot:

./mbot plugins < botaccount >@gmail.com < botpassword >

- Now you can IM the bot account, and off you go. Youll need to start off with a "auth < password >" to login to the bot