I tweaked some of Mardak's code for the Twitter Add-on, and created a Jetpack module that makes it terribly simple to write add-ons that extend the awesomebar with your own suggestions. As an example, here's an add-on that uses the Google Translate API to translate text into a specified language directly in the location bar. If you type in the keyword 'translate', followed by a language code and some text, it will show the translation in the awesomebar results:
The code:
require('awesomebar').add({
keyword: 'translate',
onSearch: function(query, suggest) {
let lang = query.substring(0, query.indexOf(' '));
let text = query.substring(query.indexOf(' '));
if (lang.length == 2 && text.length > 2) {
translate(lang, text, function(translatedText) {
suggest({
title: 'Translated text in ' + lang + ': ' + translatedText,
url: 'http://translate.google.com/?tl=' + lang +
'&q=' + encodeURIComponent(text),
}, true);
});
}
}
});
function translate(lang, text, callback) {
require('request').Request({
url: 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate',
content: {
v: '1.0',
q: text,
langpair: ''' + lang
},
headers: {
Referer: require('tabs').activeTab.location
},
onComplete: function() {
callback(this.response.json.responseData.translatedText);
}
}).get();
}
The example needs niceties such as being able to write full language names, but you get the gist.
Here's the awesomebar.js module.
There's a bit of documentation in there. The code could use some cleanup, and could probably be much smaller if converted to use the internal Jetpack APIs for things like window-watching, etc.
