Command List (ls)

acme
Search AcmeShorts.com for text - this search is of the main Author's archive
72 uses - Created 2005-06-20 18:43:30 - Last used 2024-10-14 04:23:39 - Nominate - Description - http://acmeshorts.com/shorts/default.aspx?search=%s

amjen
Searches amazon.co.jp for foreign language (primarily English) books. Example: amjen Lord of the Rings
72 uses - Created 2005-06-23 04:04:23 - Last used 2006-09-27 06:57:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/external-search?mode=blended&index=books-us&keyword=%s[use %20 for spaces]

tlf
Norwegian phone directory lookup
72 uses - Created 2006-01-21 03:06:35 - Last used 2018-09-14 01:00:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tv2katalogen.no/perl/nemo/NO/www.pl?nosearch=&mode=super&op=&what=%s&where=&search=S%F8k&lat=&lon=&categoryname=&categoryid=&ddtype=&ddsearch=&ddtitle=

iafdt
Searches the Internet Adult Film Database, returns titles only
72 uses - Created 2006-04-08 02:32:39 - Last used 2011-06-01 11:20:17 - Nominate - Description - http://www.iafd.com/results.asp?searchtype=title&searchstring=%s

sheflib
a shortcut to the star catoluge search page for sheffield university.
72 uses - Created 2006-10-05 15:57:45 - Last used 2010-09-27 10:08:35 - Nominate - Description - http://star.shef.ac.uk/TalisPrism/advancedSearch.do;jsessionid=114AA32D2E56FCF065EECD026B3994FE.worker2?

wkbks
Searches Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection. If you don't name a parameter, it will go to the Main Page.
72 uses - Created 2007-04-16 10:14:29 - Last used 2014-11-15 08:59:36 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/?search=%s[use _ for spaces]

kj
Shorter key command for searching java files on koders.com
72 uses - Created 2007-05-23 04:37:25 - Last used 2023-08-31 17:54:33 - Nominate - Description - http://www.koders.com/?s=%s&_%3Abtn=Search&_%3Ala=Java&_%3Ali=*

hobo
Search the hobocentral.net/forum/ Hobo is an Open Source extension to Ruby on Rails. - Logan Koester <logan@logankoester.com>
72 uses - Created 2007-07-03 13:58:09 - Last used 2023-09-10 11:18:25 - Nominate - Description - http://hobocentral.net/forum/search.php?search_keywords=%s&search_terms=any&search_author=&search_forum=-1&search_time=0&search_fields=all&search_cat=-1&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC&show_results=topics&return_chars=-1[post]

reviewsite
Find reviews on particular web sites. Good to use when purchasing items from a new online vendor. Example: reviewsite buy.com
72 uses - Created 2007-08-06 22:27:42 - Last used 2010-12-03 05:51:05 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=%s+review+-site:%s&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

titulky
searches titulky.com
72 uses - Created 2007-11-03 21:03:09 - Last used 2012-10-04 20:18:10 - Nominate - Description - http://www.titulky.com/index.php?Fulltext=%s

traan
To search Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, the fan-maintained database of Transformers.
72 uses - Created 2007-12-31 06:47:37 - Last used 2009-09-14 22:00:15 - Nominate - Description - http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

gameknot
Gameknot Player Search. This searches for players registered at Gameknot.
72 uses - Created 2008-01-02 06:57:04 - Last used 2012-05-13 12:42:22 - Nominate - Description - http://gameknot.com/find.pl?q=%s&s=1

ait

72 uses - Created 2008-02-19 23:45:51 - Last used 2021-02-07 16:54:37 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+%s&btnG=Search

splitf3b
NAME splitf3b - issue up to 3 YubNub commands to a split-frame window. SYNOPSIS splitf3b [ FIRST_COMMAND ] [ SECOND_COMMAND ] [ THIRD_COMMAND ] [ -s SPECIAL_PARAMETER ] splitf3b opens a split-frame browser window (or tab) with 3 panes. Unlike similar YubNub commands it uses positional parameters to issue commands to each frame so as to minimize keystrokes. splitf3b opens up the web interface at YubNub.org by default, but allows you to send multiple commands to each frame and use a single argume…
72 uses - Created 2008-05-08 20:22:58 - Last used 2012-11-03 04:20:31 - Nominate - Description - splitv {url splith {url {ifEmpty -value {% 1 %s} -then yu ${s} -else {strReplace -find + -replace " " -string {% 1 %s}} ${s}}} {url {ifEmpty -value {% 2 %s} -then yu ${s} -else {strReplace -find + -replace " " -string {% 2 %s}} ${s}}}} {url {ifEmpty -value {% 3 %s} -then yu ${s} -else {strReplace -find + -replace " " -string {% 3 %s}} ${s}}}

adc
ADC Drums search. ADC Drums are a great drum shop located in Liverpool, who offer free delivery with every online purchase. To search for a drum/percussion item, just type what you want. Example: adc vater 5b drum sticks
72 uses - Created 2008-08-12 19:24:16 - Last used 2021-11-06 11:24:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.adcdrums.co.uk/search.asp?strKeywords=%s&numRecordPosition=1

tcg
This uses TCGplayer.com's search engine to look up Magic: The Gathering prices (as well as prices for other games). Just type in "tcg" followed by your query.
72 uses - Created 2011-11-15 03:00:23 - Last used 2022-04-10 15:11:45 - Nominate - Description - http://store.tcgplayer.com/products.aspx?name=%s

conp
Directly search what the wackaloons at Conservapedia have to tell you. Awesome examples include "Barack Obama", "Dinosaurs" or "Moon". This command is provided for entertainment purposes. Like watching Fox News, reading Conservapedia can cause your brain to suddenly explode due to an overflow of stupid.
72 uses - Created 2008-10-06 23:49:42 - Last used 2016-11-13 05:00:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Search?search=%s&fulltext=Search

ozb
Search OzBargain.com.au, defaulted to not show expired deals and to order by posting date.
72 uses - Created 2012-03-19 03:20:04 - Last used 2025-01-05 18:26:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/noexpired:1+sort:created+%s

md-ebook
Search Maryland's Digital eLibrary Consortium (powered by Overdrive).
72 uses - Created 2012-06-15 15:02:14 - Last used 2018-01-31 09:12:02 - Nominate - Description - http://maryland.lib.overdrive.com/FEDD6D3D-291B-42EC-AA97-E535F18CF976/10/336/en/BANGSearch.dll?Type=FullText&FullTextField=All&FullTextCriteria=%s[post]

fgt
Searches for four and five star guitar tab on Ultimate-Guitar Allows for addition of band parameter by using "-b"
72 uses - Created 2009-05-04 20:46:19 - Last used 2020-08-03 20:46:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?bn=${b}&sn=%s&type%5B%5D=1&rating%5B%5D=5&rating%5B%5D=4

ytmrate
Searches YouTube videos posted in the last month by rating.
72 uses - Created 2011-04-11 22:52:16 - Last used 2011-07-24 05:19:10 - Nominate - Description - http://www.youtube.com/results?uploaded=m&search_query=%s&search_type=videos&search_sort=video_avg_rating

rtg
NAME rtg - Google Real-Time Search SYNOPSIS rtg [SEARCH TERM] EXAMPLES rtg chicago Search using Google's "real time" feature to search Twitter, FriendFeed, and other microblogging sites. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html AUTHOR Brian Armknecht b.a.
72 uses - Created 2009-12-07 22:23:43 - Last used 2012-08-27 13:28:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&esrch=RTSearch#hl=en&esrch=RTSearch&tbo=p&tbs=rltm%3A1&q=%s&aq=f&aqi=g10 [use + for spaces]

tms1
Searches the Times
72 uses - Created 2010-04-16 15:00:01 - Last used 2010-07-14 07:47:14 - Nominate - Description - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sitesearch.do?x=0&y=0&query=%s&turnOffGoogleAds=false&submitStatus=searchFormSubmitted&mode=simple&sectionId=674

gmoz
Searches addons.mozilla.org through Google site search.
72 uses - Created 2010-05-23 22:15:50 - Last used 2013-11-04 16:25:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aaddons.mozilla.org+%s

shs
Search in slack help center (ipb)
72 uses - Created 2024-06-06 04:54:50 - Last used 2025-09-11 10:18:20 - Nominate - Description - https://slack.com/help/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=%s&commit=Search

gcac
pull page from Google cache. @nph
72 uses - Created 2021-09-16 05:16:57 - Last used 2023-10-15 21:17:21 - Nominate - Description - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:%s

scarlet
Search the full text of Nathaniel Hawthorne's _The Scarlet Letter_ on Google Books.
71 uses - Created 2011-04-12 15:48:07 - Last used 2025-01-11 02:46:33 - Nominate - Description - http://books.google.com/books?id=IEMOAAAAYAAJ&q=%s#v=snippet&f=true

rn
USCIS Receipt Number search. Very useful for immigrants to search for their case status with www.uscis.gov.
71 uses - Created 2005-06-17 22:09:10 - Last used 2021-02-12 20:40:45 - Nominate - Description - https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/pdfprint?print.type=casestatus.results&receiptId=%s&language=ENGLISH&ipAddress=127.0.0.1

spec
Perform SpecSearch on GlobalSpec. Find and compare products from more than 14,000 online catalogs.
71 uses - Created 2005-06-21 16:30:33 - Last used 2022-09-30 07:00:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.globalspec.com/ProductFinder/FindProducts?query=%s&frmtrk=topnav

appleforum
Korean Apple user Community. AppleForum.com
71 uses - Created 2005-08-13 14:58:20 - Last used 2010-06-10 20:37:40 - Nominate - Description - http://appleforum.com/search.php?do=process&showposts=0&query=%s

wig
Searches the Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator) gallery for a widget. To find all YubNub Widget Example: wig yubnub
71 uses - Created 2005-12-29 00:13:20 - Last used 2025-03-13 16:55:59 - Nominate - Description - http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/?search=%s&x=0&y=0

ky
Innovative search site for everything travel
71 uses - Created 2006-01-05 08:36:36 - Last used 2024-02-07 01:43:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.kayak.com

C2fnp
Find the new posts on Concept2.com forum ( By Tyn )
71 uses - Created 2006-06-27 10:39:32 - Last used 2009-01-25 07:11:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.c2forum.com/search.php?search_id=newposts

shz
More abbreviated version than the "shopzilla" command. Yes, it searches Shopzilla.com :)!
71 uses - Created 2006-08-14 05:46:30 - Last used 2011-08-15 22:16:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.shopzilla.com/buy/superfind.xpml?search_box=1&cat_id=1&sfsk=0&keyword=%s

tasklist
searches program names that can show up in your windows tasklist
71 uses - Created 2007-03-04 21:00:24 - Last used 2021-12-25 02:59:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tasklist.org/search.php?q=%s

marveldb
Searches the Marvel Database Project Example: marveldb peter parker
71 uses - Created 2007-05-08 06:42:21 - Last used 2015-04-13 14:44:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.marveldatabase.com/Special:Search?search=%s

sfsu
This will search the communications directory of San Francisco State University. To find someone or some office on campus just type: sfsu <name> Example: sfsu Poets
71 uses - Created 2007-06-29 17:58:35 - Last used 2012-12-12 21:14:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.sfsu.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch?restrict=direct&exclude=%22%22&words=%22%s%22

imdbkw
Query IMDB according to keyword. Keywords are space-delimited, order-sensitive, and compound keywords must be connected by hyphens. ie. To search 'zombie' and 'kung fu' keywords, use 'imdbkw zombie kung-fu'. Note: 'imdbkw zombie kung-fu' and 'imdbkw kung-fu zombie' will yield different results. If a keyword vanishes from your query (as in, you search for 'astronauts' and 'gummi-bears' but only 'astronauts' shows up in the IMDB page, it is likely that IMDB does not have that keyword as you enter…
71 uses - Created 2007-07-10 20:44:45 - Last used 2015-03-16 05:45:23 - Nominate - Description - http://imdb.com/keyword/%s [use / for spaces]

CLIVE
Club Live Search
71 uses - Created 2007-07-24 11:14:53 - Last used 2025-01-19 14:16:09 - Nominate - Description - http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=%s

sharem
Search files on Rapidshare, Megaupload, SendSpace, ZShare and file hosting websites.
71 uses - Created 2008-04-14 17:31:47 - Last used 2012-01-21 08:03:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.shareminer.com/search.html?q=%s

tsearch
Twitter comment Search. To search yahoo on twitter comments Example: tsearch yahoo
71 uses - Created 2008-07-02 07:15:39 - Last used 2015-11-28 00:41:16 - Nominate - Description - http://twitter.1x1.jp/search/?source=&lang=&text=1&keyword=%s

filmic
searches rottentomatoes and imdb using mash2, rt and imdb commands Example: filmic apocalypse now
71 uses - Created 2010-08-31 21:37:01 - Last used 2017-07-13 07:26:19 - Nominate - Description - mash2 %s -cmd rt imdb

fzz

71 uses - Created 2009-11-29 16:50:03 - Last used 2010-02-06 17:36:09 - Nominate - Description - http://fairtilizer.com/tracks?search=%s&sort=IFNULL(tracks.published_at,%20tracks.created_at)#

gallica
Performs a basic search on Gallica. Gallica (http://gallica.bnf.fr/) is digital library of the French National Library. It contains digital versions of books, periodicals, illustrations, maps, sound recordings, and musical scores.
71 uses - Created 2010-04-22 07:38:09 - Last used 2019-04-01 00:44:01 - Nominate - Description - http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWireIndex=index&p=1&lang=EN&q=%s

itratp1
NAME ratpit1 - ratp itinerary step 1 SYNOPSIS ratpit1 - allows to look for an itinerary on ratp.fr (Paris public transport) This is an update of ratpit1. This one gives the possibility to chose both departure and the destination time. "This is the first step of "ratpit". I want to make a simple command that will let you look for an itinerary on the ratp.fr site. ratp1 is simple but not as much as I would like. I will use positional parameters in ratpit and will maybe use some abbreviations for …
71 uses - Created 2010-06-02 08:34:06 - Last used 2011-01-28 22:03:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ratp.info/Pivi/piviweb.php?exec=piviweb&cmd=Itineraire&x_dep=&y_dep=&x_arr=&y_arr=&Profil=RATP_${l=FR}&etape=LEX&mode=TOUS_MODE&query=recherche&type_dep=${td=ARRET}&adp=${d}&type_arr=${ta=ARRET}&aar=${a}&Date[HeureSelectionne]=${h}&Date[MinuteSelectionne]=${m}&Date[TypeDateSelectionne]=${th}

exam
Search granted patents in the United States Patent and Trademark Database by name of the Examiner who allowed the case. Takes search terms of FIRST and LAST names of the Examiner. Be aware that sometimes two examiners share the same first/last name.
71 uses - Created 2010-06-15 20:56:18 - Last used 2025-09-24 06:40:41 - Nominate - Description - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=${first}&FIELD1=XP&co1=AND&TERM2=${last}&FIELD2=XP&d=PTXT

gneuk
Google news search limited to articles from the UK.
71 uses - Created 2011-05-07 18:35:03 - Last used 2011-08-15 16:17:28 - Nominate - Description - http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=%s+location:uk

batoto
Batoto is a manga hosting site that listens to the wishes of scanlators and doesn't make money off of the work of others.
71 uses - Created 2014-04-30 09:54:24 - Last used 2018-11-19 11:30:37 - Nominate - Description - http://www.batoto.net/search?name_cond=c&name=%s

ixeu
search via www.ixquick.eu - the original ixquick search, after ixquick merged with startpage
71 uses - Created 2016-04-04 04:51:12 - Last used 2019-03-05 20:19:44 - Nominate - Description - https://ixquick.eu/do/search?q=%s&l=deutsch

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