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".

nslookup
Use this tool to perform an nslookup for a given domain or host. Use the query type choice to choose what type of record you would like to lookup. for example: nslookup www.google.com
669 uses - Created 2005-06-29 12:20:41 - Last used 2024-10-15 05:51:45 - Nominate - Description - http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Tools/nslookup.php?domain=%s&querytype=A

shutterstock
ShutterStock royalty-free image search. To find photographs or illustrations, give one or more keywords. Example: shutterstock green tea cup
669 uses - Created 2006-06-15 08:14:32 - Last used 2023-10-04 10:33:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.shutterstock.com/cat-p1.html?cat=&id=&page=1&searchterm=%s&searchtermx=&model_released=&%3F&sortby=newest&rows_per_page=16&ref=58062&rid=58062&thumb_size=large

psm
Preissuchmaschiene.de - German product database. You can search or browse for products, and compare the prices of the vendors found in Germany. To find vendors in Germany, simply give the product name, a description or the type of product. Example: psm usbstick 2GB
669 uses - Created 2007-05-07 20:04:53 - Last used 2019-11-30 01:51:55 - Nominate - Description - http://www.preissuchmaschine.de/psm_frontend/main.asp?suche=%s

wkm

669 uses - Created 2009-05-21 18:02:07 - Last used 2021-09-17 09:04:53 - Nominate - Description - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=%s

mediaf
searches site:mediafire.com on google.com
668 uses - Created 2009-04-26 11:06:48 - Last used 2012-06-22 07:52:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s+site%3Awww.mediafire.com&btnG=Suche&meta=

thnl (Golden Egg)
NAME thnl - Web page Thumbnail Maker SYNOPSIS thnl [URL] EXAMPLES thnl http://www.google.com make a Thumbnail of [url] AUTHOR ZEGENVS
667 uses - Created 2006-04-27 14:49:16 - Last used 2023-05-15 17:01:26 - Description - http://img.simpleapi.net/small/%s[no url encoding]

vbd
Goes to the highschool debate blog "Victory Briefs Daily"
667 uses - Created 2006-12-04 04:39:51 - Last used 2012-10-22 01:09:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.victorybriefsdaily.com/

ssz
Seslisozluk Search. Seslisozluk is an Online English-Turkish-German Dictionary with 1,500,000 words and idioms. Example: ssz gesellschaft
667 uses - Created 2007-04-28 11:54:25 - Last used 2012-07-28 22:54:29 - Nominate - Description - http://seslisozluk.com/?word=%s&go_search=Search

cff
Looks up time table on Swiss railways in French. Takes current date and time as default. Usage: cff [from] [to] Examples: cff Renens Geneve cff Vevey Sion cff Tour-de-Peilz Yverdon Attention: Doesn't like spaces or accents in place names! Note: Swiss railways has three names/acronyms and urls, for German (SBB), French (CFF), Italian (FSS). In YubNub, <a href="http://yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=sbb">SBB</a> is already defined (and searches in German), as is <a href="http://yubnub.org/kernel/man?a…
667 uses - Created 2008-01-11 14:48:34 - Last used 2024-09-03 02:21:09 - Nominate - Description - http://fahrplan.sbb.ch/bin/query.exe/fn?REQ0JourneyStopsS0G={% 1 %s}&REQ0JourneyStopsS0A=7&REQ0JourneyStopsZ0G={% 2 %s}&REQ0JourneyStopsZ0A=7&start=%BB+Chercher+correspondances[no url encoding]

fd
link to thefreedictionary.com
666 uses - Created 2005-07-16 05:03:59 - Last used 2024-09-03 06:06:46 - Nominate - Description - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

gif
Animated GIF search using Giphy.com To find animated gifs of the TV show Arrested Development, just type your search. Example: giphy arrested development
666 uses - Created 2010-08-24 21:08:03 - Last used 2025-01-02 16:44:48 - Nominate - Description - http://giphy.com/search/%s[use - for spaces]

cd2
Looking for a used CD? This command searches Djangos.com and Spun.com at the same time.
665 uses - Created 2006-01-28 17:44:17 - Last used 2023-01-18 03:05:06 - Nominate - Description - split {url[no url encoding] djangos %s} {url[no url encoding] spuncd %s}[no url encoding]

sidebarload
sidebarload -- Load a yubnub command into your browser's sidebar. usage: sidebarload [yubnub command and arguments] examples: sidebarload gim porsche sidebarload gmini This is useful for searches and other commands that yield a list of results. For instance, "sidebarload gim porsche" will do a Google image search in the sidebar, then when you click on search results, they will load in the main window. The second example, "sidebarload gmini", will load the Mobile version of Gmail into your sideb…
665 uses - Created 2006-01-24 20:02:20 - Last used 2022-10-05 20:06:28 - Nominate - Description - echo <a href="http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=%s" target="_search">Click to load "%s" into the sidebar

tera

665 uses - Created 2008-03-16 02:59:58 - Last used 2019-10-08 09:45:04 - Nominate - Description - https://www.teradata4me.teradata.com/

gcs
Search Google in czech.
664 uses - Created 2006-01-18 20:08:15 - Last used 2021-05-04 12:44:44 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?lr=lang_cs&q=%s

spll
SYNOPSIS spll [Yubnub command] [word(s) to check spelling] -engine [localized Google version to use in spell checking, optional, defaults to Google English] EXAMPLE spll gnews cmbodia performs: a search in Google News for "cambodia" spll flint monica beluci performs: a search in Flickr for "monica bellucci" spll g internatioal aids confrence performs: a search in Google for "international aids conference" spllw am der gefagene von askaban -engine gde performs: a search in Amazon for "der gefang…
664 uses - Created 2006-01-31 07:41:09 - Last used 2012-12-05 20:14:20 - Nominate - Description - yubnub {% 1 %s} {spllw {% 2- %s} -engine ${engine}}[no url encoding]

eztb
easynews thumbnail 75 pics 480x480 - 800x800
664 uses - Created 2008-11-17 23:58:24 - Last used 2012-06-06 12:27:47 - Nominate - Description - http://members.easynews.com/global4/search.html?gps=%s&sbj=&from=&ns=&fil=&fex=&vc=&ac=&fty%5B%5D=IMAGE&s1=dtime&s1d=-&s2=nrfile&s2d=%2B&s3=dsize&s3d=%2B&pby=75&pno=1&sS=1&u=1&svL=&d1=&d1t=&d2=&d2t=&b1=&b1t=&b2=&b2t=&px1=480x480&px1t=5&px2=800x800&px2t=&fps1=&fps1t=&fps2=&fps2t=&bps1=&bps1t=&bps2=&bps2t=&hz1=&hz1t=&hz2=&hz2t=&rn1=&rn1t=&rn2=&rn2t=&fly=2

ist
ICICI Direct bank quotes for the Indian Stock Exchange
663 uses - Created 2005-10-11 19:49:42 - Last used 2024-08-10 02:46:43 - Nominate - Description - http://content.icicidirect.com/research/topsearchquotes.asp?icicicode=%s&category=corporate

ymaps
Yahoo maps that give directions. Example: ymaps miami, fl to washington, dc
663 uses - Created 2006-02-02 13:00:19 - Last used 2020-09-13 02:55:17 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/index.php#maxp=search&q1=%s

btnet
Search for BroadcasThe.Net, a Gazelle-based TV tracker.
663 uses - Created 2010-03-02 03:45:48 - Last used 2025-01-17 13:39:00 - Nominate - Description - http://broadcasthe.net/torrents.php?searchstr=%s

tvcl
shortcut to avclub's tvclub
663 uses - Created 2011-07-14 13:54:59 - Last used 2017-06-24 00:00:00 - Nominate - Description - http://www.avclub.com/section/tv/

conj
Seach in Le Conjugueur.
662 uses - Created 2005-06-21 10:14:47 - Last used 2024-12-20 00:48:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.leconjugueur.com/php/newconjugue.php?lang=fr&oblige=N&verbe=%s

gcc
Google Creative Commons Search.
662 uses - Created 2005-12-04 03:22:31 - Last used 2024-08-15 11:01:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&as_rights=(cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute%7Ccc_sharealike%7Ccc_noncommercial%7Ccc_nonderived)&start=10&sa=N

jmp
J.mp is an alternate URL shortening service running on the same servers that power bit.ly. This command sends a URL to J.mp for shortening. The URL is the only required parameter. Optionally you can supply a -title parameter, but that only seems to get used for the Twitter posting function, so it's not that important. Example: jmp http://yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=jmp -title YubNub manual entry for jmp command Made by enbar (nathan rein at google mail)
662 uses - Created 2009-09-04 20:10:19 - Last used 2023-12-05 08:11:39 - Nominate - Description - http://j.mp/?v=3&u=%s&s=${title={scrape -tokens <title> </title> -dirs 0 0 -url %s}}

gd
Grateful Dead Collection on Archive.org
661 uses - Created 2005-06-16 18:43:21 - Last used 2024-05-03 15:11:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Grateful%20Dead

ads
Searches in Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) database by title Example: adsa cosmology lambda optional -author argument (after title argument) (^ means beginning with) Example: adsa cosmology lambda -author ^Saha optional -year argument (after title argument) Example: adsa cosmology lambda -year 2001 Example: adsa cosmology lambda -author ^Saha -year 2001
661 uses - Created 2005-06-20 09:02:24 - Last used 2024-03-16 15:14:36 - Nominate - Description - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?title=%s&db_key=AST&db_key=PRE&qform=AST&arxiv_sel=astro-ph&arxiv_sel=cond-mat&arxiv_sel=cs&arxiv_sel=gr-qc&arxiv_sel=hep-ex&arxiv_sel=hep-lat&arxiv_sel=hep-ph&arxiv_sel=hep-th&arxiv_sel=math&arxiv_sel=math-ph&arxiv_sel=nlin&arxiv_sel=nucl-ex&arxiv_sel=nucl-th&arxiv_sel=physics&arxiv_sel=quant-ph&arxiv_sel=q-bio&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=${author}&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=${year}&ttl_logic=OR&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=100&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&data_type=SHORT&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1

lgg
LinkaGoGo Smart Bookmarks. linkaGoGo is an online bookmark manager. With linkaGoGo you can make your own smart bookmarks and access them from any browser. Including from the Firefox search plugin. You choose whether you want to share them with other users. To search Google: lgg gg linkagogo You can create an alias for your favorites bookmarks. For example an alias rh for http://www.redhat.com, allows you to do: lgg rh It also does domainname completion. For example got to http://www.yahoo.com t…
661 uses - Created 2007-03-28 01:09:43 - Last used 2023-12-24 03:36:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.linkagogo.com/go/To?sourceid=yubnub&url=-1&args=%s

mkot
NAME mkot - mobile Kottke.org EXAMPLES mkot Opens the mobile version of kottke.org AUTHOR b.a.
661 uses - Created 2009-04-06 22:12:29 - Last used 2010-02-12 00:44:29 - Nominate - Description - http://m.kottke.org/

gentoos
Gentoo Search : Searches gentoo.org, forums.gentoo.org and gentoo-wiki.com via google. All great sources of gentoo-related info.
660 uses - Created 2006-03-16 16:34:24 - Last used 2023-12-29 03:18:07 - Nominate - Description - g %s ( site:gentoo.org | site:gentoo-wiki.com )

sqr
Send a phrase to scroogle
660 uses - Created 2007-10-22 06:12:24 - Last used 2013-06-16 21:23:00 - Nominate - Description - https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi/search?q=%22%s%22

sbotca
ShopBot.ca Price Comparison Search Engine
660 uses - Created 2009-07-25 06:59:42 - Last used 2013-12-29 16:12:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.shopbot.ca/default.asp?kw=%s&position=search

gut
Search Project Gutenberg, first and largest single collection of free electronic books. This command uses Google to search. usage: gut [search term] example: gut "art of war" b.a.
659 uses - Created 2005-12-06 03:24:24 - Last used 2023-11-27 09:12:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Agutenberg.org+%s&btnG=Search

debian

659 uses - Created 2006-07-05 14:05:06 - Last used 2024-11-09 11:08:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.debian.org

shooter
Search for English and Chinese subtitles at 射手网(shooter.cn).
659 uses - Created 2007-09-18 01:21:49 - Last used 2021-04-08 18:12:46 - Nominate - Description - http://shooter.cn/sub/?searchword=%s

shub
scihub search for the new address at sci-hub.tw
659 uses - Created 2018-10-04 22:32:42 - Last used 2024-08-14 17:06:46 - Nominate - Description - http://sci-hub.tw/%s

teen
Free gift products! Including tech gadgets
658 uses - Created 2005-06-10 02:59:13 - Last used 2024-12-12 14:24:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.FreeTech4You.com

kjvs
King James Version Search. Use the biblegateway.com keyword search for the King James Bible. To find verses containing the search word(s), just type them, separated by spaces. Example: kjvs bless children
658 uses - Created 2008-11-22 00:28:03 - Last used 2014-07-29 23:14:00 - Nominate - Description - http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=%s&version1=9&searchtype=all&limit=none&wholewordsonly=no

langcode
NAME langcode - displays the language code SYNOPSIS I thought that making a langcode command was really important. This command can then be combined with wikipedia, wiktionnary, google, etc.. I will create commands for those... I'm also planning on creating a country code command. That one would be useful for google too. I arbitrarily decided to use English language names. I found it easier this way (no typographical issues) Since this command was first made for a wikipedia command I only took …
657 uses - Created 2010-05-17 23:27:48 - Last used 2024-01-10 03:33:24 - Nominate - Description - switch %s | afrikaans => af, albanian => sq, arabic => ar, aragonese => an, aromanian => roa-rup, asturian => ast, azeri => az, basque => eu, belarusian => be, bengali => bn, bishnupriya manipuri => bpy, bosnian => bs, breton => br, bulgarian => bg, cantonese => zh-yue, catalan => ca, cebuano => ceb, chinese => zh, chuvash => cv, croatian => hr, czech => cs, danish => da, dutch => nl, english => en, esperanto => eo, estonian => et, finnish => fi, french => fr, galician => gl, georgian => ka, german => de, greek => el, gujarati => gu, haitian => ht, hebrew => he, hindi => hi, hungarian => hu, icelandic => is, ido => io, indonesian => id, irish => ga, italian => it, japanese => ja, javanese => jv, korean => ko, kurdish => ku, latin => la, latvian => lv, lithuanian => lt, lombard => lmo, low saxon => nds, luxembourgish => lb, macedonian => mk, malay => ms, malayalam => ml, marathi => mr, neapolitan => nap, newar => new, norwegian => no, occitan => oc, persian => fa, piedmontese => pms, polish => pl, portuguese => pt, quecha => qu, ripuarian => ksh, romanian => ro, russian => ru, samogitian => bat-smg, serbian => sr, serbo-croatian => sh, sicilian => scn, simple english => simple, slovak => sk, slovenian => sl, spanish => es, sundanese => su, swahili => sw, swedish => sv, tagalog => tl, tamil => ta, telugu => te, thai => th, turkish => tr, ukrainian => uk, urdu => ur, vietnamese => vi, volapük => vo, walloon => wa, waray-waray => war, welsh => cy, west frisian => fy, * => en

elpais
EL PAÍS
657 uses - Created 2011-09-15 10:39:53 - Last used 2023-11-19 01:36:54 - Nominate - Description - http://www.elpais.com

askox
Search Ask Oxford.com's free English dictionary.
655 uses - Created 2009-01-24 08:10:23 - Last used 2022-09-14 12:30:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dict&freesearch=%s

dva
Searches deviantart.com NEW! 2012 because i don't know if it's possible to change the existing (da) one
654 uses - Created 2012-06-27 17:43:00 - Last used 2024-06-14 14:52:05 - Nominate - Description - http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=%s

pink
gay news searching from PinkNews.co.uk
653 uses - Created 2006-01-05 10:53:15 - Last used 2024-12-04 16:50:04 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?load=search&find=%s

gettyimages
GettyImaages image search. To find iamges, enter one or more descriptive keywords Example: gettyimages brown horse See also: rfimg - aggreated search of several stock agencies
653 uses - Created 2006-06-15 08:21:31 - Last used 2020-06-02 10:10:32 - Nominate - Description - http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/classes/FrameSet.aspx?&UQR=jppllm&pk=4&source=front&lightboxView=1&txtSearch=%s&selImageType=7&chkLicensed=on&chkRoyaltyFree=on

twe
uses tweak.tk url shortener
653 uses - Created 2009-12-16 17:00:40 - Last used 2024-03-25 07:03:24 - Nominate - Description - http://api.dot.tk/tweak/shorten?long=%s

vi
searches vimeo w/ full text query
651 uses - Created 2005-06-23 21:15:11 - Last used 2024-09-26 08:22:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.vimeo.com/videos/search:%s

friends
LiveJournal friends list
651 uses - Created 2006-02-09 22:30:01 - Last used 2024-11-04 06:02:00 - Nominate - Description - http://%s.livejournal.com/friends

awrl
AnyWho reverse phonenumber lookup
651 uses - Created 2008-05-15 20:27:16 - Last used 2022-11-28 13:51:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.anywho.com/qry/wp_rl?c=&telephone=%s&btnsubmit.x=55&btnsubmit.y=14

asp
Pushkin's works
650 uses - Created 2005-09-23 23:46:43 - Last used 2023-05-07 07:07:44 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yandex.ru/yandsearch?ras=1&date=&text=%s&spcctx=doc&zone=all&linkto=&wordforms=all&lang=all&from_day=&from_month=&from_year=&to_day=&to_month=&to_year=&mime=all&Link=&numdoc=50&site=http%3A%2F%2Ffeb-web.ru%2Ffeb%2Fpushkin%2Ftexts%2Fpush17%2F&ds=

deen
Look up german to english dictionary WordReference USAGE deen <word>
650 uses - Created 2009-12-21 22:27:47 - Last used 2024-10-18 17:19:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wordreference.com/deen/%s

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