Type in a command, or "ls dictionary" to search all commands for "dictionary", etc.

The Most-Used Commands

Tip: For a list of particularly interesting Yubnub commands, check out Yubnub Golden Eggs. Also see the Most-Used Commands.
Tip: You can search the descriptions by typing "ls [word or phrase]". For example, to search for all commands about music, type "ls music".

yeah
Gateway command to Allen Ormond's YubNub-like app, YeahWay.com Example: yeah am kayak
3559 uses - Created 2006-10-11 05:22:10 - Last used 2023-09-30 10:23:16 - Nominate - Description - http://yeahway.com/parser/run.php?query=%s

gbr
Google Brazil Search. Get only results from Brazil. Example: gbr submarino
3554 uses - Created 2006-09-10 19:50:18 - Last used 2024-02-21 11:16:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com.br/search?q=%s&meta=cr=countryBR

vimeo
Vimeo tag search. Vimeo is a site for sharing your video clips. ---------- Old implementation: http://www.vimeo.com/tag=%s
3542 uses - Created 2005-06-17 18:47:39 - Last used 2024-02-10 18:26:42 - Nominate - Description - https://www.vimeo.com/search?q=%s

archive
Search all of the media at Archive.org
3525 uses - Created 2005-06-20 18:39:56 - Last used 2024-04-28 16:49:36 - Nominate - Description - http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%s

x

3518 uses - Created 2006-08-14 13:17:43 - Last used 2024-04-20 09:34:09 - Nominate - Description - http://dexonline.ro/search.php?cuv=%s&source=

\\ (Golden Egg)
Checks the spelling of your input of any Yubnub command. SYNTAX \\ [yubnub command] [your query to be spellchecked] EXAMPLE \\ gim cmbodia (performs a google image search for "cambodia") \\ wiki collor (performs a wikipedia search for "color") \\ gmails new prooject (performs a gmail search for "new project") RELATED COMMANDS ?> filterstring % spellcheck CREATED BY Jacob Ensor (magicjj) of jjefferydesign.com. Special thanks to Jon Aquino and Anastas for help with debugging the command. Made po…
3516 uses - Created 2006-01-31 02:43:17 - Last used 2013-05-15 23:18:17 - Description - http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command={% 1 %s}+{spllw {filterstring 1 %s}}[no url encoding]

blogger
Homepage of blogger.com
3514 uses - Created 2005-06-10 00:00:53 - Last used 2024-02-15 21:23:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.blogger.com

sinfesty
Shows the Sinfest comic for yesterday. Made by XmasBug.
3508 uses - Created 2007-03-06 00:26:04 - Last used 2017-05-03 12:14:58 - Nominate - Description - sinview {date -format Y-m-d -offset -1}

tuc
Check dict.tu-chemnitz.de for German / English translation.
3500 uses - Created 2005-10-17 11:40:03 - Last used 2024-04-22 10:23:28 - Nominate - Description - http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?lang=de&noframes=1&o=3007$3Bcount$3D50&query=%s&service=

movie
Searches for movies using movies.yahoo.com instead of Fandango (don't like those Fandango pop-ups and Fandango doesn't show all Theaters!)
3496 uses - Created 2005-07-08 20:43:03 - Last used 2024-04-23 00:17:25 - Nominate - Description - http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/showtimes.html?z=%s&r=sim

save (Golden Egg)
Can't stand it when you try downloading a file or clip but it plays instead. I got tired of retyping this echo command in every time I wanted to download a ".mov", so here you go! SYNTAX save [link to file] Takes your link and echos a hyperlink in which you can right click to save the target. Jake magicjj jjefferydesign.com
3490 uses - Created 2006-06-04 01:18:37 - Last used 2024-05-01 07:14:21 - Description - echo <a href="%s">Right click, then &quot;Save Target As ...&quot; (IE) or &quot;Save Link As ...&quot; (FF). </a>

ucase (Golden Egg)
NAME ucase - convert text to uppercase SYNOPSIS ucase [STRING] EXAMPLE ucase Hello, World! AUTHOR Jonathan Aquino <jonathan.aquino@gmail.com> (Requested by Allen Ormond)
3487 uses - Created 2005-08-07 17:09:20 - Last used 2024-03-29 10:15:41 - Description - http://yubnub.org/example/ucase?text=%s

e
Everything2.com Search. Searches for titles in the nodegel.
3483 uses - Created 2005-06-20 18:40:59 - Last used 2024-04-29 04:07:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=%s

vt (Golden Egg)
Searches Versiontracker for Mac software
3462 uses - Created 2005-06-06 14:27:11 - Last used 2023-11-14 07:21:35 - Description - http://versiontracker.com/php/search.php?str=%s&plt%5B%5D=macosx&mode=basic&action=search

io
Launches iGoogle personalized Google Homepage
3454 uses - Created 2007-06-21 14:34:45 - Last used 2024-03-10 13:34:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/ig

tvdb
Searches thetvdb.com for shows. ------------------------------------------------------------ Old implementation: http://www.thetvdb.com/?string=%s&tab=listseries&function=Search
3452 uses - Created 2008-06-22 04:24:43 - Last used 2024-04-30 16:07:36 - Nominate - Description - https://thetvdb.com/search?query=%s

mcw
Looks up an entry in the Minecraft Wiki. Examples: mcw sand mcw minecart mcw axe
3442 uses - Created 2010-10-19 20:13:20 - Last used 2022-02-16 19:53:33 - Nominate - Description - http://www.minecraftwiki.net/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%s

wpru
Russian wikipedia.org search
3441 uses - Created 2006-07-22 09:03:03 - Last used 2024-05-01 05:33:24 - Nominate - Description - http://ru.wikipedia.org?search=%s

s.i (Golden Egg)
Super Image Search Google Images / Yahoo Images / Flickr >||;)
3424 uses - Created 2006-04-16 01:04:54 - Last used 2023-07-30 11:33:04 - Description - split {url[no url encoding] gim %s} {url[no url encoding] yim %s} {url[no url encoding] flickr %s}

ghr
Google search of Croatian pages / Google pretraga hrvatskih stranica
3390 uses - Created 2007-12-17 14:18:03 - Last used 2024-05-02 05:48:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.hr/search?hl=hr&q=%s&meta=lr%3Dlang_hr

r/
This command allows you to access a subreddit using /r such as r/pics, by typing in "r/ pics". Handy if you want to get straight to a certain subreddit.
3387 uses - Created 2011-06-15 20:13:34 - Last used 2024-05-01 22:03:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.reddit.com/r/%s

fortune
The classic Fortune Cookie program from UNIX! A real fortune cookie from a real unix system. Extremely light and barebones output - no advertisements, no fuss - just plain fortune. Fit even for mobile phones!
3385 uses - Created 2006-07-04 00:25:36 - Last used 2021-10-28 01:07:22 - Nominate - Description - http://data.freeshell.org/fortune.cgi

market
Google Android app market
3381 uses - Created 2011-02-03 07:59:24 - Last used 2024-03-17 11:10:58 - Nominate - Description - https://market.android.com/search?q=%s

adobe
Search adobe.com, the newly re-launched website of Adobe Systems Inc., makers of popular software products including Acrobat, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and InDesign. Example: adobe indesign Returns adobe.com's pages on InDesign By Auricfuzz
3372 uses - Created 2006-05-29 19:39:19 - Last used 2024-04-22 07:55:27 - Nominate - Description - http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc=en_us&term=%s

hello

3366 uses - Created 2007-01-16 15:38:36 - Last used 2024-04-28 11:41:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com

rdmeta
NAME rdmeta - a tool for reddit/metareddit SYNOPSIS rdmeta [KEY] OR rdmeta [COMMAND][WORD] OR rdmeta [TOKEN] KEYS * - Go to Metareddit ? - Open Yubnub with Reddit toolbar (no key/no parameters) - Go to Reddit COMMAND ? - Reddit search ?? - metareddit search TOKEN * - Locate Metareddit(so *comics=metareddit comics) / - Add reddit url( so /dwl9l will take you to that entry) http:// - if url is from reddit call metareddit, else adds toolbar (any other) - ask for redit(so pics will send you to that…
3359 uses - Created 2010-11-02 16:38:26 - Last used 2023-12-20 02:51:33 - Nominate - Description - echo <script> var s='%s';var p=/http:\/\/www.reddit.com/i ;var p2=/http:\/\//i;var m1='http://metareddit.com';var m2='http://www.reddit.com/';var c='';c=(s=='')? m2+'':c;c=(s=='*')? m1+'/':c;c=(s=='?')? m2+'s/http://efridge.net/yubnub/ynframes.php?args=':c;c=(p.test(s))? s.replace(p,m1):c;c=((c=='')&&(p2.test(s))) ? s.replace(p2,m2+'http://'):c;c=((c=='')&&(s.indexOf('*')==0)) ? s.replace(/\*/i,m1+'/t/'):c;c=((c=='')&&(s.indexOf('/')==0)) ? m2+s.replace(/\//i,''):c;c=((c=='')&&(s.indexOf('?? ')==0)) ? s.replace(/\?\? /i,m1+'/search?q=')+'&amp;r=':c;c=((c=='')&&(s.indexOf('? ')==0)) ? s.replace(/\? /i,m2+'search?q='):c;c=(c=='')? m2+'r/'+s:c;document.location=c;</script>

mefi
Goes to Metafilter
3342 uses - Created 2006-09-10 03:18:16 - Last used 2021-08-01 08:54:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.metafilter.com/

fcs
Google site search of Fidelity.com
3335 uses - Created 2009-11-29 20:41:28 - Last used 2021-03-07 17:33:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Afidelity.com

glx
Google Linux Search. To search just type what you need: Example: glx Debian.
3333 uses - Created 2006-03-23 13:17:54 - Last used 2021-02-24 07:25:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&q=%s&btnG=Search

gui (Golden Egg)
NAME gui - A graphical user interface (GUI) for YubNub commands. SYNOPSIS gui [YUNUB_COMMAND] EXAMPLES gui scrape gui change gui ifthen This command is the anti-YubNub. It takes any yubnub command name as a parameter and displays a graphical user interface (GUI) for it. Who needs command lines anyway?! AUTHOR Allen Ormond - aormond (at) gmail (dot) com Thanks to Sean O'Hagan, whose 'scrape' command is doing some behind the scenes work.
3324 uses - Created 2006-04-01 05:16:02 - Last used 2023-11-15 12:56:50 - Description - ifthen -value1 %s -value2 {scrape -tokens <h1> </h1> -dirs 0 0 -url http://www.yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=%s} -test NOTEQUAL -then http://www.yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=gui -else http://fromrocks.com/yubnub/abbreviate/gui.php?input=%s -redirect true

bmn
SYNOPSIS bmn [url] EXAMPLE bmn nytimes.com Returns a login from bugmenot.com - useful for sites with free but compulsory registration. ---------- Old implementation: http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=%s
3323 uses - Created 2005-06-22 21:24:49 - Last used 2024-04-17 17:55:15 - Nominate - Description - http://bugmenot.com/view/%s

lies
Search EN>ES on Linguee
3320 uses - Created 2014-11-10 11:42:35 - Last used 2022-04-19 08:34:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=ingles&query=%s

hype
Search for audio tracks on The Hype Machine website, an aggregator for mp3 blogs. To find Pink Floyd mp3s, simply type the following: hype Pink Floyd
3313 uses - Created 2006-05-09 21:57:09 - Last used 2023-09-20 05:53:41 - Nominate - Description - http://hypem.com/search/%s/

lart
Go directly to an artist page on Last.fm
3307 uses - Created 2007-05-02 21:49:01 - Last used 2022-07-03 01:56:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.last.fm/music/%s

gprint
Google Print Search. Use this to find a book indexed by Google. To find books about Freud. Example: gprint Freud
3298 uses - Created 2005-06-20 19:46:33 - Last used 2024-04-19 05:03:37 - Nominate - Description - http://print.google.com/print?q=%s

ign (Golden Egg)
Searches IGN for the specified text.
3294 uses - Created 2005-06-10 21:00:13 - Last used 2024-02-05 04:23:48 - Description - http://my.ign.com/my/sb?pageID=2003&nuaction=gameSearch&gameTitleSearch=%s

translate
traductor
3276 uses - Created 2005-06-27 07:10:22 - Last used 2024-04-08 12:03:41 - Nominate - Description - http://babelfish.altavista.com/

yf (Golden Egg)
Takes you to the Yahoo Fantasy Sports home page.
3275 uses - Created 2005-06-15 21:55:03 - Last used 2020-04-24 19:55:47 - Description - http://fantasysports.yahoo.com/

gspot
Search GameSpot for, um, games. Example: gspot bard's tale
3271 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:48:39 - Last used 2013-11-17 13:05:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gamespot.com/pages/search/index.php?type=11&stype=all&qs=%s&x=0&y=0.

npm
Search the node package manager registry
3265 uses - Created 2014-03-05 06:25:41 - Last used 2024-04-23 03:28:43 - Nominate - Description - https://www.npmjs.org/search?q=%s

allm
Allmusic search using their new API.
3264 uses - Created 2006-02-06 15:21:22 - Last used 2023-11-07 00:00:26 - Nominate - Description - http://allmusic.com/search/artist/%s

sing (Golden Egg)
Lyrics look up. Example: sing sailor warm gulf wind
3250 uses - Created 2005-06-19 22:43:21 - Last used 2024-02-14 09:18:41 - Description - http://seek.sing365.com/cgi-bin/s.cgi?q=%s

yarr
Search thepiratebay.org
3248 uses - Created 2005-06-22 04:14:28 - Last used 2024-04-26 10:07:58 - Nominate - Description - http://thepiratebay.org/search/%s/0/7/0[use %20 for spaces]

ynet
Go to www.ynet.co.il news page
3246 uses - Created 2005-07-12 12:05:33 - Last used 2021-03-21 14:43:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ynet.co.il

tru (Golden Egg)
NAME tru - Translate words into/from RUssian language. Thesaurus in RUssian. SYNOPSIS tru [WORDS [-lang [LANGUAGE]]] EXAMPLES tru Without input words the command just open the main page http://lingvo.yandex.ru/ Translate INTO Russian: tru mother tru mother -lang en - the English word `mother' (en -> ru) tru Mutti tru Mutti -lang de - the German word `Mutti' (de -> ru) tru maman tru maman -lang fr - the French words `maman' (fr -> ru) (Both a short form of the command (without -lang option) and …
3243 uses - Created 2006-07-26 12:45:58 - Last used 2023-08-15 01:18:08 - Description - http://lingvo.yandex.ru/{eop search.xml?text=@%s@&st_translate={ifThen (${lang}==ru) 0,1{eop &lang=@${lang}@}}}

ncix
search ncix.com for computer components Example: ncix Asus
3242 uses - Created 2007-02-26 06:57:16 - Last used 2019-06-19 10:16:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ncix.com/search/?q=%s&minprice=Min.+Price&maxprice=Max.+Price

py
Display Python module documentation. Example: "py re" -- the 're' package, for regular expressions.
3237 uses - Created 2006-01-17 18:59:43 - Last used 2023-03-15 02:54:14 - Nominate - Description - http://docs.python.org/lib/module-%s.html

http
Go to a web page. Example: http slashdot.org
3234 uses - Created 2005-06-20 10:42:11 - Last used 2024-03-24 10:11:31 - Nominate - Description - http://%s

gshark
Searches grooveshark (currently grooveshark lite) created by themorgantown@gmail.com ---------- Old implementation: http://listen.grooveshark.com/index.php?searchQuery=%s
3209 uses - Created 2008-08-25 21:39:38 - Last used 2015-02-15 16:22:45 - Nominate - Description - http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search/songs/?query=%s

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