Example ThisService script using node and LMGTFY

gistfile1.js

#!/usr/local/bin/node
// Unfortunately, /usr/bin/env node doesn’t work if node is in /usr/local/bin

var spawn = require('child_process').spawn,
    textutil = spawn('textutil', ['-stdin', '-stdout', '-format', 'html', '-convert', 'rtf'])
    pbcopy = spawn('pbcopy')

textutil.stdout.pipe(pbcopy.stdin)

process.stdin.resume()
process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8')

var query = "",
    LMGTFY = "http://lmgtfy.com/?q="

process.stdin.on('data', function (chunk) {
    query += chunk
})

process.stdin.on('end', function () {
    textutil.stdin.write("<a href='" + LMGTFY + query + "'>" + query + "</a>")
    textutil.stdin.end()
})