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[marcello.herreshoff.myopenid.com]

The automate-form-input command allows you to go to an arbitrary website, click on a form, and type "automate-form-input <name-of-command>", whereupon a new command with that name is created.

It doesn't matter whether the form is a GET-method form, a POST-method form, a form with an onsubmit or a form with a button with an onclick. It works. If, for example, you go to vimeo.com and type "automate-form-input vimeo-search", the following:
//This command was automatically generated by the automate-form-input command.
CmdUtils?.CreateAutomationCommand?({

name: "vimeo-search",
author: "automate-form-input",
url: "http://vimeo.com/",
icon: "http://vimeo.com/favicon.ico",
inject: true,
code: "(document.getElementById("searchterms")).value = query.text;

" +

" var form = (document.search); (form.onsubmit ? (form.onsubmit() ? form.submit(): 1) : form.submit());"

});
gets added to your local collection of commands.

In addition the Automation infrastructure should be useful for creating other commands.

[marcello.herreshoff.myopenid.com]

Patch on 0.1.1 release, created with the shell command: diff -c -r oldubiq/ ubiquity@…/

[abcdefu.wordpress.com]

Interesting command. I really like the idea of commands being able to generate other commands. Wouldn't it be possible to also make this command do something like Google Chrome search shortcuts? Because right now, if you create a search command for NYTimes, it waits for the page to load (which takes a long time) before clicking the search button. I guess it should be possible to extract the search URL and use it directly.

I haven't had time to look through the code line-by-line yet. But it seems that most of the functions you put in cmdutils.js can actually just be in builtincmds.js

[marcello.herreshoff.myopenid.com]

Replying to abcdefu.wordpress.com:

Interesting command. I really like the idea of commands being able to generate other commands. Wouldn't it be possible to also make this command do something like Google Chrome search shortcuts? Because right now, if you create a search command for NYTimes, it waits for the page to load (which takes a long time) before clicking the search button. I guess it should be possible to extract the search URL and use it directly.

I actually thought of that, and in fact, before writing the version I sent you I also wrote this:
http://stanford.edu/~marce110/verbs/new-command-from-search-box.html
which uses a copy of some of the internal code firefox uses to create keyword searches.

I decided against this version because I wanted it to work for sites other than searches. For example:

//This command was automatically generated by the automate-form-input command.
CmdUtils.CreateAutomationCommand({
  name: "listentoyoutube",
  author: "automate-form-input",
  url: "http://listentoyoutube.com/",
  icon: "http://listentoyoutube.com/favicon.ico",
  inject: true,
  code: "(document.getElementById("url")).value = query.text; (document.getElementById("submit")).click();"
});

allows you to be on a youtube page and type <C-L> <Alt-space> listen <Enter> and automatically start converting the sound-track of the video into mp3.

Also, sites like vimeo.com do send you to another page after the search, but the behavior isn't specified in the form's action field. (In fact, if you try to make a standard firefox keyword search bookmark for vimeo, it doesn't work until you manually change
http://vimeo.com/?=%s to http://vimeo.com/videos/search:%s )

That's why it looks to me as though loading up the page and performing the search really does seem to be the only fully general way to do this properly. I definitely agree that spending the user's time with a pageload is bad, but having a generated command fail to work as expected is way worse. That said, it would certainly be nice if future versions of this command certainly should detect well-behaved sites and output more streamlined commands in that case. (if, of course, that's even possible... some sites innocently use onsubmit to check if the values of the form are correct, but some use it to hijack the submit event and do something AJAX-ish.) Maybe the only real answer is to offer the users both options and give them names which make the difference clear.

I haven't had time to look through the code line-by-line yet. But it seems that most of the functions you put in cmdutils.js can actually just be in builtincmds.js

Is there any special reason why they shouldn't be in cmdutils.js?

It strikes me that functionality like CmdUtils?.UserCode? and CmdUtils?.runAutomation and the other functions might be useful to other command writers, no? Also, for generated code not to be bloated, it is a must that something like CmdUtils?.CreateAutomationCommand? be visible from the sandbox where the user's code is evaluating.

PS:
Incidentally, I realize that this block of code:

    Application.activeWindow.tabs.forEach(function (tab){
      if(tab.document.location == "chrome://ubiquity/content/editor.html"){
        tab.document.location.reload(true);
      }
    });

really ought to have been inside
CmdUtils?.UserCode?.setCode
so that refreshes happen after anyone calling it changes the User's code.

[abcdefu.wordpress.com]

I really love this command! I'm sure it's going to a killer command for Ubiquity to have. Thanks for letting us build it in!

I agree with you that both commands are powerful and we should probably include both. I'll commit this soon.

[marcello.herreshoff.myopenid.com]

Incidentally, here's another example of the sorts of things you can do with automations.
http://stanford.edu/~marce110/verbs/wordle-from-text.html
This one was hand crafted, but all it took was a brief look at the page source of http://wordle.net/create

[marcello.herreshoff.myopenid.com]

Thanks for your work. ( http://hg.toolness.com/ubiquity-firefox/rev/2713b98604e6 )
Incidentally, if you're going to rename the command, you might also want to change the lines:
+ help: "Select a searchbox, click it and then type new-command... keyword, and a command named keyword will be created.",

and

+ var code = '

//Note: This command was automatically generated by the new-command-from-searchbox command.
'

to match the new name.

[abcdefu.wordpress.com]

Thanks for the tip. I corrected it in 743e49b6bc12. And I created a new ticket to discuss "make-new-search-command". See #289.

[abcdefu.wordpress.com]

In my earlier change, I forgot to move the tab refreshing code into CmdUtils?.UserCode?.setCode . Did that in 6eed1825327e

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