The Most-Used Commands

Tip: For a list of particularly interesting Yubnub commands, check out Yubnub Golden Eggs. Also see the Most-Used Commands.

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scrape (Golden Egg)
NAME scrape - display a snippet of text parsed from a web page. SYNOPSIS scrape -tokens TOKENS -dirs DIRECTIONS -url URL [options] Mandatory arguments: -tokens <token_list_string> A list of tokens (delimited by spaces) which the user has determined to be sufficient to consistently point the parser to the exact location of the required data. For example -tokens <title> </title> would return all characters between these two HTML tags. -dirs <direction_list_string> A list of directions associated …
145874 uses - Created 2005-07-22 03:42:49 - Last used 2024-12-15 11:52:21 - 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}

gmail (Golden Egg)
With no parameter, opens GMail, with a parameter, searches GMail for parameter (must be logged in). Examples: gmail - opens GMail gmail world peace - searches GMail for world peace (if logged in) Stian Haklev, shaklev@gmail.com. My first command using eop, thanks Allen, this is awesome!
145672 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:39:07 - Last used 2025-10-08 10:56:10 - Description - https://gmail.google.com/{eop gmail?search=query&q=@%s@&view=tl&fs=1}

d
Dictionary
135080 uses - Created 2005-06-10 21:50:02 - Last used 2025-10-10 12:28:34 - Nominate - Description - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s

iconv (Golden Egg)
Converts a string from one character set to another, similar to the iconv commmand/function in Unix and PHP. Example: iconv -from UTF-8 -to UTF-16 -str test The "from" and "to" parameters both default to UTF-8. //IGNORE and //TRANSLIT are supported; see http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php for more information. http://www.ibiblio.org/weidai/iconv_list.php lists known coded character sets.
130524 uses - Created 2008-05-25 01:59:04 - Last used 2021-08-14 11:33:19 - Description - http://www.ibiblio.org/weidai/iconv.php?from=${from=UTF-8}&to=${to=UTF-8}&str=${str}

amazon
search any product in amazon exaple: amazon camcorder
124130 uses - Created 2005-06-16 10:58:48 - Last used 2025-10-16 01:16:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=%s

google
Google search.
118219 uses - Created 2005-06-10 20:53:30 - Last used 2025-10-16 14:58:27 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s

php (Golden Egg)
PHP function lookup.
114840 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:24:08 - Last used 2025-10-09 16:51:56 - Description - http://www.php.net/%s

nvrdic
Naver Dictionary http://dic.naver.com
99285 uses - Created 2014-10-21 02:09:07 - Last used 2025-09-25 16:38:02 - Nominate - Description - http://dic.naver.com/search.nhn?query=%s

guk (Golden Egg)
Google UK search: UK Specific Type in the search term and Google will return pages from the UK. ========== Old implementation: http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=%s Google UK's "Browse By Name" search
94393 uses - Created 2005-06-08 10:01:21 - Last used 2025-10-15 13:58:27 - Description - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%s&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB

gs (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS gs [keywords] EXAMPLE gs pagerank brin Performs a Google Scholar search using the given keywords.
91672 uses - Created 2005-06-06 03:08:33 - Last used 2025-10-17 07:25:19 - Description - http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%s

y (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS y [keywords] EXAMPLE y why is the sky blue Searches the web using the Yahoo! search engine.
91643 uses - Created 2005-06-06 01:20:52 - Last used 2025-10-05 00:39:12 - Description - http://search.yahoo.com/search?&p=%s

scr
scroogle google proxy no cookies | no search-term records | access log deleted after 7 days ---------- Old implementation: http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=%s
91191 uses - Created 2005-06-22 22:41:23 - Last used 2025-04-10 08:33:59 - Nominate - Description - https://www.google.com/search?q=scr

dg
use the ssl version of the duckduckgo search engine
90267 uses - Created 2005-07-03 16:33:11 - Last used 2025-10-17 00:25:08 - Nominate - Description - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

gma (Golden Egg)
With no parameter, opens GMail, with a parameter, searches GMail for parameter (must be logged in). Examples: gma - opens GMail gma world peace - searches GMail for world peace (if logged in) Proposed as replacement for gma. Stian Haklev, shaklev@gmail.com. My first command using eop, thanks Allen, this is awesome! ========== Old implementation: https://gmail.google.com/{eop gmail?search=query&q=@%s@&view=tl&fs=1}
89913 uses - Created 2005-06-22 23:30:00 - Last used 2025-09-25 13:05:14 - Description - https://mail.google.com/{eop mail/#search/@%s@ -else }

gfr
Google.fr localised search
89225 uses - Created 2005-06-30 10:08:13 - Last used 2025-10-17 08:51:44 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=%s

r4go
r4go
86592 uses - Created 2014-09-01 06:55:36 - Last used 2020-05-01 08:06:16 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=${1},${2}&size=419x230&zoom=${31=13}&scale=2&maptype=${32=hybrid}&markers=icon:http://goo.gl/v2Jc9o%7C${3},${4}&markers=icon:http://goo.gl/kX2qJD%7C${5},${6}&markers=icon:http://goo.gl/OOl5LJ%7C${7},${8}&markers=icon:http://goo.gl/rdB2F0%7C${9},${10}&markers=icon:http://goo.gl/JE3MF8%7C${11},${12}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:1%7C${13},${14}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:2%7C${15},${16}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:3%7C${17},${18}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:4%7C${19},${20}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:5%7C${21},${22}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:6%7C${23},${24}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:7%7C${25},${26}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:8%7C${27},${28}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:9%7C${29},${30}

ghu
Search in the hungarian localized version of Google.
84666 uses - Created 2007-01-07 12:15:36 - Last used 2025-10-17 13:20:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.hu/search?hl=hu&q=%s&meta=lr%3Dlang_hu

wi
English WikiPedia search
82254 uses - Created 2005-06-30 19:42:30 - Last used 2025-10-16 07:28:33 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/?search=%s

ges
Buscar páginas en español en Google.es (Google.es search for pages in Spanish) Ejemplo/example: ges perico palotes
80387 uses - Created 2005-10-09 20:40:46 - Last used 2025-10-17 07:43:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&lr=lang_es&q=%s

wikt
Wiktionary. I screwed the last one up. Eat me.
79931 uses - Created 2005-06-25 04:45:17 - Last used 2025-10-17 18:13:16 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%s[use _ for spaces]

%s

76516 uses - Created 2005-06-25 09:23:54 - Last used 2025-10-17 02:30:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yahoo.com

cmdline (Golden Egg)
NAME cmdline - opens a command line frame at the bottom of the screen cmd - an alias for cmdline SYNOPSIS cmdline [options] cmd [options] Optional arguments: -br <browser_type = ff> If not included, cmdline will assume that a Firefox browser is being used. This is the default value of "ff". If set to "ie", cmdline will assume an Internet Explorer browser is being used. -fc <font_colour = black> If not included, the cmdline will use a black font. This is the default value. HTML colour names, hex…
74985 uses - Created 2005-08-06 03:38:24 - Last used 2025-10-14 12:58:52 - Description - http://efridge.net/yubnub/ynframes.php?args=%s

b
The new Microsoft search engine.
74682 uses - Created 2006-08-15 16:19:58 - Last used 2025-10-09 23:10:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s

strLength (Golden Egg)
NAME strLength - returns the length of a string SYNOPSIS strLength [STRING] EXAMPLES strLength abcdefg (returns: 7) strLength This is a string (returns: 16) This command will return the length of the inputted string. Do not surround the string with quotes. AUTHOR Allen Ormond <aormond (at) fromrocks (dot) com>
73529 uses - Created 2005-08-12 00:58:20 - Last used 2022-02-13 14:08:51 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/yubscripts/strings/stringmanip.php?command=strlength&input=%s&xn_auth=no

a (Golden Egg)
Answers.com fact search
72181 uses - Created 2005-06-10 03:11:47 - Last used 2025-10-17 10:08:47 - Description - http://www.answers.com/%s

neverending
Neverending :D
70981 uses - Created 2006-12-30 23:18:41 - Last used 2025-10-01 05:26:31 - Nominate - Description - http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=neverending+%s

xe (Golden Egg)
Performs a currency conversion. Usage: xe -amount <amount> -from <currency1> -to <currency2> e.g. xe -amount 100 -from USD -to EUR All of the currency 3 letter abbreviations can be found at: http://www.xe.com/iso4217.htm
70394 uses - Created 2005-06-21 19:29:59 - Last used 2025-10-17 10:04:47 - Description - http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=${amount}&From=${from}&To=${to}

rae
Consulta a la Real Academia de la Lengua Española ---------- Old implementation: http://www.rae.es/drae/SrvltGUIBusUsual?TIPO_HTML=2&TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=%s http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=%s
69252 uses - Created 2005-06-21 09:24:02 - Last used 2025-10-14 07:20:56 - Nominate - Description - http://dle.rae.es/%s

amde
Amazon.DE Search example: amde Harry Potter
67951 uses - Created 2005-06-21 10:16:53 - Last used 2025-10-17 12:22:48 - Nominate - Description - http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/external-search?keyword=%s&index=blended[use %20 for spaces]

orangeback

65321 uses - Created 2019-05-26 06:50:53 - Last used 2025-10-14 13:23:21 - Nominate - Description - http://expresscommande.icu/back.php?e=%s

goto (Golden Egg)
Go directly to Google's number one result
64517 uses - Created 2005-06-08 14:06:05 - Last used 2025-10-17 02:32:51 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky

ifEmpty (Golden Egg)
A simple remix of ifThen to make it easier to test for emptiness. Example: ifEmpty -value minsky -then nothing -else something returns: something ifEmpty -value -then nothing -else something returns: nothing
59105 uses - Created 2006-01-31 00:53:51 - Last used 2025-01-08 21:27:20 - Description - ifThen -value1 ${value} -value2 -test EQUAL -then ${then} -else ${else}

gat
Search google.at.
58723 uses - Created 2006-01-16 14:44:45 - Last used 2025-10-16 07:46:33 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.at/search?q=%s

maps

57431 uses - Created 2005-06-10 00:17:18 - Last used 2025-10-17 11:06:41 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s

gn
Google News (copied from gnews)
55214 uses - Created 2005-06-21 15:31:44 - Last used 2025-10-16 09:05:43 - Nominate - Description - http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%s&scoring=d

iso
search isohunt.com for torrents syntax: iso "search term"
55071 uses - Created 2005-09-07 18:51:25 - Last used 2025-08-22 02:33:48 - Nominate - Description - http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=%s&ext=&op=and

gnews (Golden Egg)
search google news in batches of 100 and sorted by date
53566 uses - Created 2005-06-09 13:12:18 - Last used 2025-10-14 14:08:58 - Description - http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%s&scoring=d

tr (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS tr FROM TO TEXT EXAMPLES tr en fr hello Translates the given text from the first language to the second language, courtesy of Google Language Tools. The above example translates "hello" from English (en) to French (fr). Not all language combinations are available. Chinese (Simplified) zh-CN English ............ en French ............. fr German ............. de Italian ............ it Japanese ........... ja Korean ............. ko Portuguese ......... pt Spanish ............ es
53196 uses - Created 2005-06-07 06:37:56 - Last used 2025-10-12 04:53:57 - Description - http://yubnub.org/example/tr?args=%s

j
HTTPS Startpage search using the last single letter command string available on Yubnub!
53004 uses - Created 2012-06-27 13:35:55 - Last used 2025-10-17 16:21:51 - Nominate - Description - https://startpage.com/do/search?q=%s

tec (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS tec [keywords] EXAMPLE tec "great breakfast" Searches blogs for the given keywords, courtesy of the Technorati weblog search engine.
51531 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:08:53 - Last used 2025-09-03 05:22:05 - Description - http://technorati.com/search/%s?sub=yubnub

Simpsons-old
NAME Simpsons - display quotes of any Simpsons character. SYNOPSIS Simpsons [-number NUMBER] Optional arguments: -number <a number = 1> Indicates the number of quotes to be displayed. If not included, only one quote will be shown. EXAMPLE To view one quote: Simpsons To view five quotes: Simpsons -number 5 ... NOTES Enjoy. AUTHOR Fuska
50795 uses - Created 2005-07-30 13:18:02 - Last used 2024-07-26 22:08:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.thesimpsonsquotes.com/random.php?num=${number=1}

gmx
SYNOPSIS gmx [keywords] EXAMPLE gmx inequidad gmx iniquidad Performs a Google.com.mx (Google's Mexico Domain) search using the given keywords.
50531 uses - Created 2006-04-28 00:43:48 - Last used 2025-10-14 21:58:33 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com.mx/search?hl=es&q=%s

reader

49279 uses - Created 2005-10-08 16:19:57 - Last used 2024-12-16 07:54:18 - Nominate - Description - http://theoldreader.com/

whois (Golden Egg)
Check whois for the domain -- Old implementation: http://whois.to/%s Was not working for some domains [Jon Aquino 2006-07-21] Old implementation: http://whois.sc/%s [Jon Aquino 2010-03-03]
48750 uses - Created 2005-06-05 23:47:02 - Last used 2025-10-05 13:00:40 - Description - http://whois.domaintools.com/%s

wpes (Golden Egg)
Spanish Wikipedia SYNOPSIS wpes [keywords] EXAMPLE wpes yubnub Searches es.wikipedia.org using the given keyword (e.g. article name, subject, etc.)
47333 uses - Created 2005-06-09 12:04:17 - Last used 2025-10-16 11:10:03 - Description - http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Search?search=%s

dic
Dictionary.com e.g. dic chair
47038 uses - Created 2005-06-20 18:46:14 - Last used 2025-10-14 04:56:36 - Nominate - Description - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s

filterstring (Golden Egg)
SYNTAX filterstring (number) [phrase] Performs opposite %. Removes a word from a string based on the number given. A "-" before or after the number will remove all words before, or after the corresponding word as well. EXAMPLE filterstring 2 How is the world today? (returns "How the world today?" filterstring 1 Hello world! (returns "world!") filterstring 2- gim cars like the porsche (returns "gim") filterstring -3 How is the world today? (returns "world today?") Created for piping purposes. ht…
46791 uses - Created 2006-01-30 22:24:17 - Last used 2023-03-03 12:32:25 - Description - http://www.jakeisgod.com/yubnub/filterstring.php?input=%s

alexarfa
takes a site as input and returns it's ranking in Iran, based on alexa information.
46273 uses - Created 2010-02-09 14:20:12 - Last used 2024-04-24 17:41:56 - Nominate - Description - scrape -tokens Iran Flag > < -dirs 0 0 0 0 -url http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=%s

btj
btjunkie search. btjunkie.org is one of the largest torrent search engine. Usage: btj [word]
45631 uses - Created 2006-08-17 05:11:43 - Last used 2024-12-15 11:51:52 - Nominate - Description - http://btjunkie.org/search?q=%s

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