Honestly one of the most interesting "web shells" I've looked at. But not something I can use regularly since most of my workflow is local for developing software.
The problem is that it is very difficult to understand the documentation, it is very difficult to develop plugins (like Google Drive) and extend the functionalities, it is very difficult to run the local server in a VPS, customization (dotfiles) is also complicated and undocumented.
Just tried to grep BBC News site but got a `cross-origin request denied` error. In the man page for hgrep, it suggests hgrep on a wikipedia page, and I got the same error.
Alternately, if you don't want to run psty, you could try the "ycat" command which uses YQL to bypass CORS. This is useful if you are trying to access HTML pages, rather than binary resources. e.g.
There are a few interesting workflows which can be done completely in the browser without a proxy: e.g. copying files from one Google Drive account to another, backing up Google Drive to Dropbox, and so on.
I wish it would at least try to do a real CORS request before giving up and forcing you to use the proxy. I have a CloudFront distribution with CORS all set up but it doesn't even try to make the request.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 30.7 ms ] threadOne interesting feature is the ability to ^mount^ a local directory into the shell, so that one can do something like:
I am still active on the project and I am working to address the issues you mention, though progress has been slower than I could wish.
The error in full: Cross-origin request denied (check if psty is running): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependenc...
I don't know how to check if psty is running. Anyone got any ideas?
python psty.py -a
For further information on psty, and a download link, see: http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.4/usr/doc/psty.html
Alternately, if you don't want to run psty, you could try the "ycat" command which uses YQL to bypass CORS. This is useful if you are trying to access HTML pages, rather than binary resources. e.g.
ycat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependenc... | hgrep table.wikitable | html
You may have to try it a couple of times; I notice that the YQL endpoint sometimes refuses connections.
I tried to cat this hn page, but also got the CORS error -- trying to route through [h]ttp://localhost:50937/...
need to run psty for proxying certain things and local access ...so its not "pure client-side Javascript app running in the browser"
pretty cool nonetheless -- maybe psty could be baked into a chrome or FF extention (?)
ycat https://news.ycombinator.com | hgrep .athing | html
ycat uses YQL to bypass CORS.
There are a few interesting workflows which can be done completely in the browser without a proxy: e.g. copying files from one Google Drive account to another, backing up Google Drive to Dropbox, and so on.
Since most sites are non-CORS, trying CORS and then falling back to proxy would impose too much of an overhead for the common case.