Commands
A message that starts with a command is answered at once, without waiting for the assistant to think. Visitors get times, rates, distances and more in a second.
Finding them in the chat
- Typing
/at the start of a message lists the commands; arrow keys choose, Enter or Tab picks one. - The ? button explains every command, with an example to click.
- A command sent without anything after it, where something is needed, answers with how to write it.
/search <words>Searches this site and lists the pages, products and PDF pages that match, each with its link.Example:
/search robotic lawn mower/time <place, coordinates or IP address>The local date and time at a place, at coordinates or where an IP address is. Alone: your own local time.Example:
/time Tokyo/rate <amount> <currency> to <currency>Today's exchange rate between currencies (three-letter codes) and the amount converted. Add a date as YYYY-MM-DD for a past day.Example:
/rate 100 EUR to RON/vat <country codes>The standard and reduced VAT rates of one or more European countries or the United Kingdom (two-letter codes, separated by commas).Example:
/vat RO, DE/vatcheck <VAT number>Whether an EU or UK VAT number is valid, and the company name and address it is registered to.Example:
/vatcheck IE6388047V/distance <place> to <place>The straight-line distance between two places, addresses or coordinates, in kilometres and miles.Example:
/distance Paris to Berlin/place <place, address or coordinates>Finds a place or a street address and gives its coordinates, region and country; coordinates tell what is there. Each answer has a map link.Example:
/place Santa Clara, California, USA/postal <postal code or town>Postal codes and the street addresses that have them: a code, a code and a town, or a town and a country.Example:
/postal 10115 Berlin/ip <IP address>Where an IP address is: country, region, city, time zone and a map link. Alone: your own approximate location.Example:
/ip 8.8.8.8/language <text>The language of a text and its sentiment: positive, negative or neutral (measured on English text).Example:
/language Acest produs este excelent/translate <from>-<to> <text>Translates a text into another language. See Translate with /translate.Example:
/translate en-es What is this?/helpThe list of commands, in the chat.Example:
/help
Commands do not count toward the questions of a conversation. Most use no AI request at all: see What it costs.
The hosted chat bot and the open source client have the same commands: Chat bot commands.