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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".

lim
Microsoft Live Image Search Microsoft Live actually has a better interface than Google Images (as of the day of its release) including zoom from within the search pane and helpful sidebars. Example: lim Kristen Bell
559 uses - Created 2006-09-14 03:17:32 - Last used 2023-07-22 20:39:58 - Nominate - Description - http://beta.search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=%s

pearls
Goes to <i>Pearls Before Swine</i> (a comic strip by Stephen Pastis)
559 uses - Created 2007-03-06 05:58:19 - Last used 2017-12-16 16:53:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls

wpca
Wikipedia in catalan language
559 uses - Created 2009-03-23 19:29:28 - Last used 2023-12-26 03:50:43 - Nominate - Description - http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Search?search=%s

nndb
Search the NNDB for an individual. Example: nndb Bill Gates
558 uses - Created 2006-01-29 18:08:47 - Last used 2021-11-10 10:20:24 - Nominate - Description - http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi?nndb=1&omenu=unspecified&query=%s

forvo
Forvo Search. Search for the pronunciation of words.
558 uses - Created 2008-04-06 22:37:23 - Last used 2022-09-12 08:54:10 - Nominate - Description - http://www.forvo.com/search/%s/

boobs
This is pretty cool, just starting out.
557 uses - Created 2005-06-10 23:01:31 - Last used 2025-05-01 20:22:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.purevolume.com/faceagainstthepavement

tits
gets pretty pictures of boobs
557 uses - Created 2005-06-21 16:51:23 - Last used 2025-02-18 13:18:29 - Nominate - Description - http://images.google.com/images?q=tits

hittavem
Look up a person/organization using the location/person/organization finder hitta.se
557 uses - Created 2005-11-30 15:06:04 - Last used 2012-02-09 08:05:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hitta.se/SearchMixed.aspx?UCSB%3aTextBoxWho=%s

swit
Swiss Telephone Directory Search / Suche im Schweizer Telefonbuch Syntax: swit [-n name] [-b profession] [-s street] [-o town] [-k canton] [-t phone number] Examples: 1. Look up all Kurt Furglers in Switzerland swit -n furgler kurt 2. Look up former Federal Councilman Kurt Furgler swit -n furgler kurt -b bundesrat 3. Look up restaurant 'Il Gallo' in Zurich swit -n il gallo -o zürich 4. Look up all inhabitants of Nordstrasse 7 in Wettingen swit -s nordstr. 7 -o Wettingen Please note that -o als…
557 uses - Created 2006-11-02 20:16:27 - Last used 2024-01-30 05:51:33 - Nominate - Description - http://tel.search.ch/result.html?name=${n}&misc=${b}&strasse=${s}&ort=${o}&kanton=${k}&tel=${t}

current
NAME current - Go to and/or search Current TV (current.com). SYNOPSIS current [SEARCH TERM] EXAMPLES current #will go to current.com current colbert #will search current.com videos for the term "colbert" current plane current formula one current how to Current is a peer-to-peer news and information network. On Current.com, you can find and share the stories, videos, and viewpoints that are interesting to you. You can clip stories and videos from around the web. You can post comments and videos …
557 uses - Created 2007-11-02 04:20:59 - Last used 2025-03-28 15:44:33 - Nominate - Description - http://current.com{eop /search/search.do?indexName=barca-search&renderer=jsp&q=@%s@}

crev
Uses context.reverso.net to translate from Spanish to English.
557 uses - Created 2017-09-06 06:59:38 - Last used 2022-02-12 08:55:57 - Nominate - Description - http://context.reverso.net/traduccion/espanol-ingles/%s

turl
Converts a looong url into a tinyurl. eg: turl http://big.long.ugly.url.com/hdfkjhkhjf?blah=bloa&gaga=34 becomes: http://tinyurl.com/bnp3m
556 uses - Created 2005-06-21 00:03:24 - Last used 2022-08-25 10:11:04 - Nominate - Description - http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=%s[no url encoding]

patent
Quick search of the US Patent DB
556 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:49:53 - Last used 2023-07-18 22:12:06 - Nominate - Description - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=%s&d=ptxt

jwp
Wikipedia for Japanese
556 uses - Created 2007-08-10 09:07:11 - Last used 2023-08-12 15:21:57 - Nominate - Description - http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s

rlpraep
Durchsucht die Rote Liste nach dem entsprechenden Präparatenamen.
556 uses - Created 2007-12-12 10:14:01 - Last used 2011-10-31 07:53:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.rote-liste.de/Online/report_n?FELD1=RLnam&FELD1text=%s&FELD2=RLfkb&FELD2text=&FELD3=RLhgl&FELD3text=&FELD4=RLawb&FELD4text=&FELD5=RLanw&FELD5text=&FELD6=RLpzn&FELD6text=&FELD7=ALLE&FELD7text=&FELD1AndOr=AND&FELD2AndOr=AND&FELD3AndOr=AND&FELD4AndOr=AND&FELD5AndOr=AND

cf9
Adobe ColdFusion 9 CFML Reference Search Just type the search string you want to use. Example: cf9 string functions
556 uses - Created 2009-12-13 03:50:08 - Last used 2015-05-05 13:27:24 - Nominate - Description - http://community.adobe.com/help/search.html?q=%s&hl=en_US&lr=en_US&l=coldfusion_product_adobelr&requiredfields=book:ColdFusion%25C2%25A09%25C2%25A0CFML%25C2%25A0Reference&self=1&filter=0

mg3
Search Metager, a privacy-focused search engine.
556 uses - Created 2022-05-10 15:25:16 - Last used 2024-10-13 10:15:22 - Nominate - Description - https://metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=%s

coral (Golden Egg)
Enter a URL and this command will load it using the Coral Content Distributed Network (http://coralcdn.org/ ). Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. This will only work after the root domain (e.g. urls ending in .com, .edu, etc.) but not subdirectories. And don't include the trailing slash if any (e.g. "coral www.vischeck.com", not "coral www.vischeck.com/") Usage: coral [URL] Example: coral www.vischeck.com
555 uses - Created 2005-06-24 15:41:09 - Last used 2025-06-06 13:52:48 - Description - http://%s.nyud.net:8090

frooglede
Search Froogle in German
555 uses - Created 2005-10-24 18:00:39 - Last used 2018-08-02 11:46:08 - Nominate - Description - http://froogle.google.de/froogle?q=%s&hl=de

typophile
Search typophile.com, the premier destination for typographic aficionados, with active forums and a growing wiki. Example: "typophile palatino" returns Typophile pages referencing Palatino, both in the forums and in the wiki. Created by Auricfuzz using my gadv command. Related Commands: gadv, myfonts, linotype
555 uses - Created 2006-11-05 23:10:43 - Last used 2011-12-15 15:36:23 - Nominate - Description - gadv %s -site www.typophile.com

djdd
Searches the development trunk docs for Django, based on the docs site as of late 2010 or so.
554 uses - Created 2011-04-08 00:29:33 - Last used 2014-03-07 14:38:01 - Nominate - Description - http://docs.djangoproject.com/search/?q=%s&release=1

mye
Search Myspace profiles by email. Example: mye gsollinger@livingproofsingers.org
554 uses - Created 2006-01-06 18:23:42 - Last used 2020-01-07 19:26:58 - Nominate - Description - http://search.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=find&circuitaction=search&searchType=network&interesttype=&country=&searchBy=Email&f_first_name=%s&Submit=Find =STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

ebayat
Search www.ebay.at.
554 uses - Created 2006-03-03 22:39:07 - Last used 2018-10-05 04:02:31 - Nominate - Description - http://search.ebay.at/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.at%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=%s&category0=

getdeb
Search getdeb.net - an ubuntu software portal
554 uses - Created 2007-09-03 12:48:07 - Last used 2019-06-26 19:57:30 - Nominate - Description - http://www.getdeb.net/search.php?keywords=%s

scour
Search Google, Yahoo and MSN. Social search engine. http://www.scour.com/index.html
554 uses - Created 2008-07-14 17:08:44 - Last used 2022-05-14 12:03:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.scour.com/search/web/%s

ian (Golden Egg)
Internet Archive Netlabel Search Example: "ia techno" searches for techno music available at archive.org Example: "ia comatronic" lists all releases from netlabel comatronic available at archive.org
553 uses - Created 2005-06-15 12:03:57 - Last used 2025-07-17 09:31:47 - Description - http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%s%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio%20AND%20collection%3Anetlabels

rubyforge
usage: rubyforge projectname Brings you to a rubyforge project page
553 uses - Created 2006-06-02 04:18:05 - Last used 2013-01-21 08:59:27 - Nominate - Description - http://rubyforge.org/projects/%s

mtc
Searches MetaCritic, an website that combines reviews from all over the internet.
553 uses - Created 2007-04-15 05:49:53 - Last used 2021-05-18 07:28:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.metacritic.com/search/all/%s/results

yfy
Yify Search
553 uses - Created 2020-08-09 00:12:40 - Last used 2025-07-20 08:53:36 - Nominate - Description - https://yts.mx/browse-movies/%s

gur
Searches Guru Intranet.
552 uses - Created 2010-08-19 15:41:36 - Last used 2017-07-03 12:36:15 - Nominate - Description - http://guru/Search.aspx?search=%s

scrape2

551 uses - Created 2005-07-22 16:38:55 - Last used 2023-11-10 23:48:14 - Nominate - Description - http://efridge.net/yubnub/parse.php?ynp_tokens=${tokens}&ynp_dirs=${dirs}&yndesturl=${url}&ynp_debug=${debug=0}&ynp_http=${method=get}&ynp_scrape=${textonly=1}[no url encoding]

nlb
Searches the National Library of Singapore catalogue by keyword. Example: nlb harry potter should bring up all instances of 'Harry Potter' within the catalogue. ========== Old implementation: http://vistaweb.nlb.gov.sg/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?10100+REDIRX+useDatabase_3002_w_%s[use %20 for spaces]
550 uses - Created 2005-06-20 03:24:05 - Last used 2016-08-11 21:32:15 - Nominate - Description - http://catalogue.nlb.gov.sg/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?10100+REDIRX+useDatabase_3002_w_%s[use %20 for spaces]

anm
Anonymously browse a website using "ANONYMOUSE". Every time you visit a site, you leave a calling card that reveals where you're coming from, what kind of computer you have, and other details. With this command you can surf the web without revealing any personal information, and now it's even easier! Just use the this command: anm [url] You must not put the "http://www." in front of the URL, YubNub does that for you! Here is an example: anm yahoo.com It's that easy!
550 uses - Created 2005-12-27 21:45:27 - Last used 2024-03-14 12:43:15 - Nominate - Description - http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.%s

gmus
SYNOPSIS gmus [keywords] EXAMPLE gmus Madredeus Performs a Musical Google search using the given keywords. Really cool. A glimpse of Google's future. -elzr
550 uses - Created 2006-01-11 10:35:48 - Last used 2019-02-19 07:04:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/musicsearch?q=%s

c2t
Converts the results of a YubNub command to Markdown format, a simple text format. Inspired by Tom Roarty, "Idea for a YubNub command", http://www.troarty.com/blog/2007/02/14/idea-for-a-yubnub-command/ EXAMPLE c2t slashdot c2t /. AUTHOR jonathan.aquino@gmail.com
550 uses - Created 2007-02-15 06:30:40 - Last used 2021-03-27 06:06:29 - Nominate - Description - 2t {url %s}

sep
To search the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Example: sep socrates
550 uses - Created 2007-04-28 19:31:36 - Last used 2025-02-15 15:56:12 - Nominate - Description - http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=%s

frl
French dictionary search on cntrl.fr, using the tlfi dictionary, lexicographie tab (hence the 'l'). Example: frl téléphone You can also submit the word without accents: Example: frl telephone
550 uses - Created 2009-05-10 21:10:27 - Last used 2025-06-18 00:47:44 - Nominate - Description - http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/%s

whatismyip
Find your IP address
549 uses - Created 2005-06-11 00:52:14 - Last used 2025-02-07 06:31:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ipdonkey.com

!login
Logs you in your existing YubNub (aliases) account. If you use incorrect login name you will have the opportunity to create a new account. SYNTAX !login [username]![password] RELATED COMMANDS !, !set, !seta, !unset, !logout, !ls, !mls. CREATED BY Jacob Ensor, jjefferydesign.com/ Thanks to Brian for idea of "!logout", which gave me the idea of this command.
549 uses - Created 2006-02-04 05:34:24 - Last used 2018-06-20 03:07:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.jakeisgod.com/yubnub/aliases/setcookie.cfm?username=%s

randstring
Generates a random alphanumeric string. Useful for generating random passwords randstr <lenght> -n [on|off] -u [on|off] -l [on|off] -count <number of strings> -seed id.<string> <length> : Number of characters in the string -n : Whether you want numbers in the string (on) or not (off) -l : Whether you want lowercase letters in the string (on) or not (off) -u : Whether you want uppercase letters in the string (on) or not (off) -count : Number of strings you want to get -seed : How the data will b…
549 uses - Created 2008-05-16 16:28:18 - Last used 2017-10-12 23:51:18 - Nominate - Description - http://random.org/strings/?num=${count=1}&len=%s&digits=${n=on}&upperalpha=${u=on}&loweralpha=${l=on}&unique=on&format=plain&rnd=${seed=new}

tweet
Twitter.com Smart Keyword Search
549 uses - Created 2008-09-12 17:46:32 - Last used 2022-08-11 11:58:46 - Nominate - Description - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%s

mdb
MixesDB Search. Just type "mdb ...", e.g. mdb mills sonar
548 uses - Created 2008-06-06 22:13:35 - Last used 2024-01-03 00:59:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mixesdb.com/db/index.php/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

core
A .onion hidden service of SSL proxy provided by German Privacy Foundation.
548 uses - Created 2008-07-09 01:50:16 - Last used 2025-04-10 08:40:25 - Nominate - Description - https://www.awxcnx.de/cgi-bin/proxy3/nph-proxy.cgi/000000A/http/eqt5g4fuenphqinx.onion/%s

enar
Translates a word from English to Arabic
548 uses - Created 2008-09-11 22:55:23 - Last used 2014-11-24 21:56:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tps.edu.ee/nastik/ar-en/index.php?q=%s

ac
Search Absurdlycool.com freebies. Example: ac t-shirt ac sample
547 uses - Created 2005-06-17 04:10:17 - Last used 2025-06-26 08:39:27 - Nominate - Description - http://absurdlycool.com/search.cgi?test=%s&age=30

table
to access spreadsheet data from editgrid.com website. Type the username followed by the the sheet name.
547 uses - Created 2006-04-26 06:07:50 - Last used 2025-05-12 11:26:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.editgrid.com/user/{% 1 %s}/{% 2 %s} [no url encoding]

ap
Searches for the AP Stylebook entry. (Subscribers only)
546 uses - Created 2005-06-16 14:16:06 - Last used 2025-05-18 17:13:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.apstylebook.com/online/index.php?do=search_results&search_term=%s

gnewsfr
Google News Search for France. To find news for gouvernement in google news france : Example: gnewsfr gouvernement
546 uses - Created 2005-06-23 16:50:53 - Last used 2023-08-11 07:37:42 - Nominate - Description - http://news.google.fr/news?q=%s

install

546 uses - Created 2005-06-24 21:13:49 - Last used 2021-01-13 10:46:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.kuhnelectronics.com

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