I was writing a script to backup subtitles from dotsub.com and I realized that the task of seeking in webs is repetitive and non standard. Moreover, I had thought several times that I would like to execute scripts from the web. As I am using/learning Ruby (and I’m not going to use Rails for that), I googled and found Camping. It’s a microframework and it’s very easy to use even for me ;)

I tried the Camping microframework writing the little app Seekr (less than 40 lines with comments) to rewrite searches. It presents a standard way to seek so it’s going to simplify my life a bit. For example, when I want to look for a word in the Spanish dictionary of the RAE (Real Academia Española), I had to go to the rae.es and then seek my word. Now I only need to go to seekr.es/rae/perro. And the same to the Wikipedia, Technorati, Google Maps, Mininova for ordered by seed torrents, Lastfm for similiar artists and so on.

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