— Byte has an interesting feature on the Google API, something that allows websites to exchange info with Google. See The Google API Is a Two-Way Street for examples of using it from Python, the only scripting language worth a damn:
…a number of these Google explorers popped up. The one I latched on to was Kenytt Avery’s YAGOB (Yet Another Google Outline Browser). Kenytt stood on the shoulders of giants when building this handy tool. One of those giants is wxWindows, a cross-platform GUI toolkit created by a team of talented hackers. Another is Robin Dunn’s wxPython, which makes wxWindows scriptable in Python. Still another is Mark Pilgrim’s pygoogle, a Python wrapper for the Google API. Thanks to all this excellent infrastructure, Kenytt Avery was able to write an elegant GUI outline browser in just a few lines of Python.
I’ll have some fun with this later.