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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".

esen
translates from Spanish into English (wordreference.com) traduce de español a inglés (wordreference.com)
16327 uses - Created 2005-10-20 12:56:51 - Last used 2025-03-31 19:36:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=%s

mail

16202 uses - Created 2005-07-14 12:50:31 - Last used 2024-11-13 00:09:21 - Nominate - Description - https://gmail.google.com/gmail

froogle (Golden Egg)
Google froogle price comparison search.
16185 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:22:24 - Last used 2025-02-16 14:49:35 - Description - http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%s

ebayuk
ebay uk search ========== Old implementation: http://search.ebay.co.uk/%s
16145 uses - Created 2005-06-21 11:44:36 - Last used 2025-04-03 15:06:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/items/?_nkw=%s

besp
The new format of Babylon to search in english-spanish
16141 uses - Created 2011-12-15 18:05:17 - Last used 2021-04-03 07:31:15 - Nominate - Description - http://traductor.babylon.com/ingles/a-espanol/%s/

porn
Opens www.pornborg.org
15887 uses - Created 2005-06-09 23:46:08 - Last used 2025-03-27 21:34:55 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pornborg.org

aur
Search ArchLinux's AUR (ArchLinux User-Community Repository). usage: aur <package>
15832 uses - Created 2006-09-21 02:29:29 - Last used 2025-02-03 13:18:21 - Nominate - Description - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=%s

gmuk
Searches Google Maps UK
15781 uses - Created 2005-06-16 13:16:20 - Last used 2025-04-02 14:43:08 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=%s

disc (Golden Egg)
Search the famous DISCOGRAPHIES website (http://www.discogs.com) Discogs is a user-built database containing information on artists, labels, and their recordings. Discogs is constantly growing as users submit releases to the database. Discogs is short for "Discographies", which are lists of an artist's or label's recordings.
15671 uses - Created 2005-06-14 21:15:10 - Last used 2025-02-26 23:12:48 - Description - http://www.discogs.com/search?type=all&q=%s&btn=Go

nv
this is a command for a Korean search engine Naver. Just type in "nv searchquery" for whatever you want. Unfortunately, due to encoding, Korean words don't seem to work yet.
15569 uses - Created 2005-06-21 14:53:35 - Last used 2024-09-01 13:48:33 - Nominate - Description - http://search.naver.com/search.naver?where=nexearch&query=%s&x=0&y=0&frm=t1

github
Search for projects on github.com git, home of git repository hosting & general development awesomeness
15534 uses - Created 2008-04-30 22:09:05 - Last used 2025-03-12 02:59:37 - Nominate - Description - http://github.com/search?q=%s

scholar
Google Scholar Search. Example: scholar postcards indiana
15357 uses - Created 2005-06-22 16:16:57 - Last used 2024-12-30 08:37:35 - Nominate - Description - http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%s&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Search

gread
Opens Google Feed Reader. Usage: gread b.a.
15314 uses - Created 2005-10-07 18:00:12 - Last used 2023-12-28 09:39:06 - Nominate - Description - http://reader.google.com/

tw
SYNOPSIS tw [keywords] EXAMPLE tw YubNub Performs a Twitter search using the given keywords.
15194 uses - Created 2005-06-10 20:34:48 - Last used 2025-03-31 10:56:36 - Nominate - Description - https://twitter.com/search?q=%s

ggo
Google search, in English, 100 results.
15069 uses - Created 2006-03-14 11:04:51 - Last used 2025-01-20 04:28:30 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&num=100&hl=en&safe=off

wpfr (Golden Egg)
French wikipedia search
14533 uses - Created 2005-06-09 13:58:37 - Last used 2025-04-04 00:12:08 - Description - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

ut
the youtube command should be corrected to the above url. i guess youtube changed their search url.
14508 uses - Created 2006-08-30 06:25:50 - Last used 2025-04-01 12:42:46 - Nominate - Description - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_sort=relevance&search_query=%s&search=Search

bing
The new Microsoft search engine.
14462 uses - Created 2009-06-01 12:24:49 - Last used 2025-04-04 01:40:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s

ams
Search smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com (money gets donated to the charity of your choice for purchases made from that point)
14415 uses - Created 2013-10-30 10:50:22 - Last used 2025-04-03 14:55:41 - Nominate - Description - http://smile.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=%s

netflix (Golden Egg)
Searches Netflix for DVD titles.
14389 uses - Created 2005-06-11 19:30:00 - Last used 2025-03-29 10:21:08 - Description - http://www.netflix.com/Search?v1=%s

twi
Goes to your Twitter homepage.
14238 uses - Created 2006-12-09 18:34:52 - Last used 2024-12-05 20:12:34 - Nominate - Description - http://twitter.com/home

yelp
Search for reviews on yelp.com
14186 uses - Created 2006-03-09 04:03:29 - Last used 2025-03-23 07:39:44 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=%s

twitter
Twitter Search ---------- Old implementation: eatFeed items[0].title -url http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/%s.atom
14183 uses - Created 2007-03-27 12:11:37 - Last used 2025-03-13 06:06:35 - Nominate - Description - https://twitter.com/search?q=%s

rotten (Golden Egg)
Search the Rotten Tomatoes movie review site (www.rottentomatoes.com). Search restricted to movies only.
14051 uses - Created 2005-06-08 20:44:54 - Last used 2025-03-19 12:49:33 - Description - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/?search=%s[use %20 for spaces]

wikipedia (Golden Egg)
English Wikipedia search
14029 uses - Created 2005-06-08 14:33:57 - Last used 2025-03-22 09:04:52 - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

wd
Searches the wiktionary (open content dictionary) english database for matches for your word(s). For example: wd elephant This will take you to the english wiktionary definition of an elephant: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/elephant
13951 uses - Created 2005-06-20 08:59:30 - Last used 2025-04-03 13:44:11 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

f
Filehippo Search (for software). the aim of filehippo.com is to provide the simplest and fastest method of downloading the newest versions of the best software - without popups or spyware. Example: f firefox f google desktop f truecrypt f freemind f foxit Related Commands: fhd
13911 uses - Created 2006-08-15 15:38:21 - Last used 2025-03-16 17:39:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www.filehippo.com/search?q=%s

bible (Golden Egg)
Enter the Bible passage (e.g. John 3:16), keyword (e.g. Jesus, prophet, etc.) or topic (e.g. salvation) you want to find.
13678 uses - Created 2005-06-07 20:16:55 - Last used 2025-03-24 02:18:13 - Description - http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=%s

gvid
Google Video Search. A command to search Google Video usage: gvid <videos to search for>
13632 uses - Created 2005-07-03 09:45:57 - Last used 2025-02-03 00:37:35 - Nominate - Description - http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%s&btnG=Search+Video

gks
Google Beta Shortcuts: browse through google search results with keyboard shortcuts
13564 uses - Created 2007-05-17 14:17:34 - Last used 2023-07-20 17:19:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?esrch=BetaShortcuts&hl=en&q=%s&btnG=Search

substring
NAME substring - Extract a substring of a given string SYNOPSIS substring [STRING TO PARSE] -start [START POSITION] -end [STOP POSITION] EXAMPLES % substring Hello World -start 2 -end 8 ==> ello Wo % substring Hello World -start 4 ==> lo World % substring Hello World -end 8 ==> Hello Wo % substring Hello World ==> Hello World Extracts a substring from a provided string. -start and -end are both optional. Positions are *inclusive* and begin at 1. The following illustrates the command's course of…
13496 uses - Created 2006-06-27 20:28:27 - Last used 2022-07-21 02:54:24 - Nominate - Description - ifthen -value1 ${end} -value2 -test EQUAL -then { ifthen -value1 ${start} -value2 -test EQUAL -then %s -else { strRight %s {sum { strLength %s } -${start} 1 } } } -else { ifthen -value1 ${start} -value2 -test EQUAL -then { strLeft %s ${end}} -else { strRight { strLeft %s ${end} } { sum ${end} -${start} 1 }}}

threadic_last_thread

13489 uses - Created 2010-08-08 23:54:02 - Last used 2011-05-12 05:54:29 - Nominate - Description - substring {scrape -tokens cgi/%s > -dirs 0 0 -url http://threadic.com/thread/bbs/read.wapl.cgi/%s/} -start 2 -end 11

threadic_post_to_last_thread

13440 uses - Created 2010-08-09 00:23:54 - Last used 2011-01-07 12:27:10 - Nominate - Description - threadic_post -board ${board} -thread {threadic_last_thread ${board}} -message ${message}

piratebay
search the pirate bay for %s
13205 uses - Created 2005-06-20 20:20:24 - Last used 2025-04-02 01:11:22 - Nominate - Description - http://thepiratebay.org/search/%s/0/7/0[use %20 for spaces]

radsum
radar summary for the US from intellicast
13186 uses - Created 2008-07-05 19:35:36 - Last used 2023-08-13 04:05:21 - Nominate - Description - http://images.intellicast.com/WeatherImg/RadarSummary/usa.gif

gdocs
Opens google docs (former: google/spreadsheets and google/writely)
13165 uses - Created 2006-10-12 13:49:24 - Last used 2025-02-15 21:35:08 - Nominate - Description - http://docs.google.com/

ghz
geizhals.at/de Die deutsche Suche des genialen Preisvergleichers aus Österreich
13098 uses - Created 2005-10-29 22:37:41 - Last used 2025-04-03 15:41:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.geizhals.at/deutschland/?fs=%s&in=

autotr (Golden Egg)
Google Auto-Translate. Automatically determines the language of the given URL and translates it into English. Example: autotr http://systempuntoout.blogspot.com/2005/06/per-molti-ma-non-per-tutti.html
13058 uses - Created 2005-06-25 15:50:38 - Last used 2025-03-28 00:29:06 - Description - https://translate.google.com/translate?u=%s

fmf
Buscador de peliculas. WWW.filmaffinity.com. Creado por JJ y Pedro. Ejemplo: fmf El padrino
12964 uses - Created 2009-01-12 11:06:36 - Last used 2025-03-31 13:46:16 - Nominate - Description - utf8to iso-8859-1 http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/search.php?stext=%s&stype=all

/. (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS /. EXAMPLE /. Slashdot is "News for nerds. Stuff that matters."
12834 uses - Created 2005-06-06 00:40:20 - Last used 2025-02-12 11:46:08 - Description - http://slashdot.org

urban (Golden Egg)
Look-up a term in UrbanDictionary.com
12675 uses - Created 2005-06-07 20:14:43 - Last used 2025-04-02 15:01:39 - Description - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%s

send (Golden Egg)
type email address followed by the message to send!
12659 uses - Created 2005-10-29 02:14:34 - Last used 2025-03-31 13:37:26 - Description - http://saraswaticlasses.net/sendmail.php?inthat=%s

ifNotEmpty
NAME ifNotEmpty -- tests if a string is not empty ifNotEmpty [string] [-then action if not empty] [-else action if emtpy] Usage: ifNotEmpty test -then yes -else no Returns: yes ifNotEmpty -then yes -else no Returns: no NOTE: This was created as a shortcut for creating other YubNub commands using this method: http://yubnub.blogspot.com/2005/08/first-command-to-use-ifthen-command.html AUTHOR chicagosage -- using Allen Ormond's ifThen command and inspired by the "ifEmpty" command b.a.
12586 uses - Created 2006-02-13 16:06:16 - Last used 2016-03-31 08:17:27 - Nominate - Description - ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then ${then} -else ${else} -redirect ${redirect=false}

tfd
Search TheFreeDictionary.com
12483 uses - Created 2005-07-04 11:40:06 - Last used 2025-03-18 10:15:24 - Nominate - Description - http://tfd.com/%s

rand
NAME rand - display a specified number of random numbers in a specified range, courtesy of random.org SYNOPSIS rand -min <min value = 1> -max <max value = 100> -num <how many to generate = 1> EXAMPLE rand 49 rand -min 1998 -max 2005 rand -num 5 -max 20 AUTHOR Richard Frankel
12393 uses - Created 2005-07-19 19:36:33 - Last used 2025-03-30 08:07:06 - Nominate - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/random.php?num=${num=1}&min=${min=1}&max=%s${max}&col=1

moochbk
Go directly to a book page on bookmooch. An ISBN is required. BookMooch (www.bookmooch.com) is a community for exchanging used books. usage: moochbk <ISBN>
12389 uses - Created 2007-05-25 21:12:16 - Last used 2022-03-26 07:44:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bookmooch.com/detail/%s

gdef
Performs a "Google Define:" command which gets definitions of the word(s) you've submitted
12379 uses - Created 2005-06-20 18:20:57 - Last used 2025-04-03 05:14:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+%s

bins
Search Binsearch.info with maximum results and maximum age for usenet binary posts.
12341 uses - Created 2006-04-21 18:55:19 - Last used 2021-09-29 11:37:48 - Nominate - Description - http://binsearch.info/?q=%s&max=250&adv_age=&server=

phentermine
Buy Diet Pills Online.
12218 uses - Created 2005-06-09 23:51:44 - Last used 2012-11-24 08:37:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.quickrxdirect.com/phentermine.html

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