Hack 64. Google by Email

results at a time via email .Long before the Web existed, there was
email. And now, thanks to the Google API,
there's Google email. Created by the team at
Cape Clear (http://capescience.capeclear.com/google),
CapeMail queries Google via email. Send
email to Title = "Online Literature Library - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein"
Snippet = "Next Back Contents Home Authors Contact, Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley. Preface; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4;
Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter ... "
URL = "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhomel"
Title = "Frankenstein Exhibit Home Page"
Snippet = "Table of Contents Introduction The Birth of Frankenstein,
The Celluloid Monster. Promise and Peril, Frankenstein: The Modern
Prometheus. ... "
URL = "http://www.sangfroid.com/frank/"
Title = "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus"
Snippet = "1818 (this edition 1831) Frankenstein is the world-famous
story of a doctor whose brilliant mind gets the better of him. "
URL = "http://www.imdb.com/Title?0021884"
Title = "Frankenstein (1931)"
Snippet = "Frankenstein (1931) - Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary,
Comments, Discussion, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Photos, Showtimes,
Link to Official Site, Fan Sites. ... " Like many other Google API applications, you can use CapeMail only
1,000 times per day, since the Google API allows the use of the key
only that many times. Don't rely on this to the
exclusion of other ways to access Google. But if
you're in a situation where web searching is not
quite as easy as sending an email
messageyou're on the go with a mobile phone
or PDA, for examplethis is a quick and easy way to interface
with Google.
5.7.1. Hacking the Hack
CapeMail comes in handy with the combination of an email application
and a way to automate sending messages (Unix's
cron, for example). Say you're
researching a particular topica relatively obscure topic but
one that does generate web page results. You could set up your
scheduler (or even your email program if able to send timed messages)
to fire off a message to CapeMail once a day, gather, and archive the
search results. Further, you could use your email's
filtering rules to divert the CapeMail messages to their own folder
for offline browsing. Make sure your search is fairly narrow, though,
because CapeMail returns only 10 results at a time.
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