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".

slto
SL journey planner
300 uses - Created 2007-09-19 15:53:51 - Last used 2018-08-14 02:06:39 - Nominate - Description - http://reseplanerare.sl.se/bin/query.exe/sn?tpl=index&REQ0JourneyStopsS0A=255&S=Stockholm,%20Vanadisv%E4gen%2039&REQ0JourneyStopsZ0A=255&start=yes&&Z=%s

firstgim
NAME firstgim - Url of the first image of a Google Image search. USAGE firstgim <query> Examples: firstgim porsche 911 firstgim Nietzsche OUTPUT Plain text with the complete url of the first image of a Google Image search. If the search returns no results, a blank page is displayed.
300 uses - Created 2008-04-12 16:08:54 - Last used 2020-08-22 11:39:29 - Nominate - Description - scrape -tokens &imgrefurl= imgurl= -dirs 0 1 -url {url gim %s} -debug 0

cmdfu
displays a random command of www.commandlinefu.com
300 uses - Created 2009-08-15 21:30:56 - Last used 2014-10-18 11:14:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random

yify
Old implementation: https://kickass.so/usearch/yify/
300 uses - Created 2015-01-03 04:06:59 - Last used 2023-12-17 12:34:44 - Nominate - Description - https://yts.ag/browse-movies/%s/all/all/0/latest

bunny
Webbunny.co.uk "bunny profile" search. Displays the profile for the name entered. Example: bunny Shaun Shows Shaun's profile
299 uses - Created 2005-06-21 02:55:53 - Last used 2025-06-10 11:50:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.webbunny.co.uk?id=%s

hotm
Hotmail
299 uses - Created 2005-07-07 14:13:47 - Last used 2022-03-30 11:22:55 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hotmail.com

Ohio
Conduct a book search on the ohiolink library catalog database.
299 uses - Created 2005-10-07 20:34:38 - Last used 2023-06-18 20:09:58 - Nominate - Description - http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search/X?SEARCH=%s

randhexgen
create a random number between 0 and 16777215 and have Google translate it to hexadecimal.
299 uses - Created 2005-12-21 15:46:31 - Last used 2016-01-21 10:00:50 - Nominate - Description - g {rand -min 0 -max 16777215} in hex

w3v
Checks the URL in the parameter with the W3C validation service AUTHOR Stephen Paul Weber a.k.a. Singpolyma http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/
299 uses - Created 2006-04-04 13:48:37 - Last used 2021-10-16 01:52:56 - Nominate - Description - http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s

can
jobs for civil engineers in canada
299 uses - Created 2007-03-20 05:26:19 - Last used 2025-07-11 01:16:36 - Nominate - Description - http://www1.on.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/ojf/ojf.jsp?lang=e&section=Profile&noc=2131

feg
Cuardach focail.ie Béarla-Gaeilge. fge is ea curdach Gaeilge-Béarla. English-Irish Focail.ie search. fge is the Irish-English search. m.s. feg fear -> eagla fge fear -> man
299 uses - Created 2007-04-15 14:39:45 - Last used 2024-01-21 22:04:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.focal.ie/Search.aspx?term=%s&lang=1

exalead
search with Exalead search engine Example: exalead yubnub
299 uses - Created 2007-05-12 17:00:52 - Last used 2022-01-04 02:02:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.exalead.com/search/results?q=%s

yc
search hackernews ---------- Old implementation: http://searchyc.com/%s
299 uses - Created 2009-06-10 17:30:23 - Last used 2023-10-23 18:46:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%s

Gamespot
Gamespot.com
298 uses - Created 2005-06-10 00:06:53 - Last used 2022-01-07 16:48:04 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gamespot.com

glot-ennl
Interglot translation service from English to Dutch (Nederlands). USAGE : glot-ennl <word>
298 uses - Created 2005-06-21 11:47:37 - Last used 2013-03-10 16:42:27 - Nominate - Description - http://interglot.com/interglotresult.php?SrcLang=2&DstLang=1&word=%s

consumer
gateway to jason ayers
298 uses - Created 2006-01-17 01:44:25 - Last used 2025-05-01 17:13:04 - Nominate - Description - http://www.deepfreq.com/?q=%s

wim
Displays Wikipedia results on the left and Google Image Search results on the right. Example: wim robert frost
298 uses - Created 2006-12-25 01:51:32 - Last used 2023-05-01 00:21:03 - Nominate - Description - split {url wp %s} {url gim %s}

xk

298 uses - Created 2007-06-09 02:18:43 - Last used 2025-06-20 16:34:36 - Nominate - Description - http://xkcd.com/

chemtext
Searches the text only version of dict.tu-chemnitz.de, for a german/english translation
298 uses - Created 2007-11-17 16:21:11 - Last used 2012-09-18 13:25:40 - Nominate - Description - http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?lang=de&mini=1&count=50&query=%s&service=deen

dictcctext
German english translation (both ways) from the text version of dict.cc
298 uses - Created 2007-11-17 16:23:42 - Last used 2012-09-18 13:27:04 - Nominate - Description - http://pocket.dict.cc/?s=%s&btngo=Go%21

eu2es
Translate from euskara to spanish. Using 3000 Hiztegia site.
298 uses - Created 2008-08-15 02:54:54 - Last used 2013-12-03 15:06:24 - Nominate - Description - http://www1.euskadi.net/cgi-bin_m33/DicioIe.exe?Diccionario=EUS&Idioma=CAS&Txt_Euskera=%s

10y
10 year annual summary of stock sticker. Example: 10y JNJ
298 uses - Created 2010-05-19 12:38:01 - Last used 2012-11-03 03:27:30 - Nominate - Description - http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/results/statemnt.aspx?Symbol=%s&lstStatement=10YearSummary&stmtView=Ann

uit
Search in "uitzending gemist" site
298 uses - Created 2011-08-24 17:56:21 - Last used 2022-09-14 04:55:45 - Nominate - Description - http://beta.uitzendinggemist.nl/zoek?query=%s

mfb
Facebook Marketplace (ipb) Need to be logged in.
298 uses - Created 2023-11-17 10:43:47 - Last used 2025-07-27 07:36:58 - Nominate - Description - https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/search/?query=%s

asstr

297 uses - Created 2005-06-10 04:02:55 - Last used 2023-11-26 21:54:31 - Nominate - Description - http://asstr.org

sms
Send SMS messages to cellular phones
297 uses - Created 2005-06-25 10:31:59 - Last used 2023-09-21 02:08:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ess.ms

abbi
AbeBooks ISBN search. Used books. Example: abba 0471309672
297 uses - Created 2006-01-13 17:44:53 - Last used 2013-12-19 01:41:42 - Nominate - Description - http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=6&isbn=%s

javascript:
Runs the provided javascript code using javascriptwindow.com
297 uses - Created 2006-07-27 21:33:30 - Last used 2025-02-26 23:07:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.javascriptwindow.com?code=%s

slog
Blog for "The Stranger" - Seattle's alt weekly newspaper.
297 uses - Created 2007-02-15 08:10:27 - Last used 2020-01-08 19:23:44 - Nominate - Description - http://slog.thestranger.com/

wulfdeltag
Search for a tag / tags on basswulf's del.icio.us account. Example: wulfdeltag yubnub wulfblog Equivalent to typing http://del.icio.us/basswulf/yubnub+wulfblog
297 uses - Created 2007-02-07 10:33:13 - Last used 2008-09-16 21:15:55 - Nominate - Description - http://del.icio.us/basswulf/%s

wee
Weewar.com is a turn based strategy game featuring real action on real maps. Up to 6 players command their colorful pixel armies against each other on the many maps available.
297 uses - Created 2008-05-15 16:27:00 - Last used 2024-05-22 01:56:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.weewar.com

btm
Bitmark search in bitly.com
297 uses - Created 2013-05-08 07:22:17 - Last used 2018-07-26 02:45:50 - Nominate - Description - https://bitly.com/a/search/%s

bankinnskudd
https://www.finansportalen.no/bank/bankinnskudd/
297 uses - Created 2021-04-06 05:42:22 - Last used 2025-04-08 07:14:09 - Nominate - Description - https://www.finansportalen.no/bank/bankinnskudd/

tcp
check TCP and UDP port numbers example: tcp 110
296 uses - Created 2006-09-28 04:48:18 - Last used 2025-07-13 19:57:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.xramp.com/resources/portsearch/port/%s

germcomb
This is a command to show the results of three different german english translations through one page. Two are text versions to speed up the download and leo the standard search.
296 uses - Created 2007-11-17 16:30:56 - Last used 2012-09-18 13:24:04 - Nominate - Description - mash2 %s -cmd chemtext dictcctext leo

slow
Executes a command really slowly. Just for the fun of it.
296 uses - Created 2008-07-29 15:29:21 - Last used 2025-07-01 21:07:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wundrbar.com/command/execute_firefox_search?command=yubnub wundr yubnub wundr yubnub wundr yubnub wundr yubnub wundr yubnub wundr yubnub wundr yubnub wundr yubnub %s

yyg
ygy = Yubnub, Google, or Yahoo? This command integrates Yubnub, Yahoo Open Search, and Google Search into a single command. If the entry has spaces, then ygy determines whether the first token in the entry is a Yubnub command. If it is a command, then yyg executes that command with the remaining tokens as if the user's entry was initially typed into Yubnub's command line. If, however, the entry contains no spaces, yyg will pass the entry to Yahoo Open Search. If the entry contains spaces and is…
296 uses - Created 2009-05-02 04:42:27 - Last used 2018-07-17 17:33:02 - Nominate - Description - ifThen ({CommandExists {% 1 %s}}) http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=%s, {ifThen ({strFind -find " " -string %s}=0) {url yos %s}, {url g %s}} -redirect true

ll
_l_yrics _l_ookup on Songtext.net (Artist Search) Example: ll Eminem
295 uses - Created 2005-06-21 10:03:47 - Last used 2025-02-24 07:33:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.songtext.net/search.html?step=2&artist=%s&title=&album=&suchen=%BB+suchen

mother
MotherNature.com Search MotherNature.com has a list of maladies and natural remedies available. To look up something, just type what you're looking for. Example: mother asthma
295 uses - Created 2005-12-06 20:26:11 - Last used 2025-01-21 14:12:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mothernature.com/search/index.cfm?query=%s&Type=Library

tvde
1) if no parameter is passed, shows the overview for the currently running german television program. 2) if a parameter is given, it will be used as a search in the title+description fields of all programs. note that booleans are apparently not supported by the search engine and it is not case sensitive. this is an improvement of my first yubnub command, "tvdenow", which is equal to subfunction 1) It uses the web site http://www.klack.de example: tvde tvde nachrichten tvde hitchcock -mexster ke…
295 uses - Created 2005-12-18 22:48:24 - Last used 2015-07-06 13:13:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.klack.de/{ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then ProgramFinder2.php3?ZWFREETEXT=%s&ORDERBY=DATE&SEARCHPAGENAME=/ProgramFinder1.php3&SHOW_ONLY=ALL&COUNTPAGE=0[post] -else TvNowFrame.php3}

rotate (Golden Egg)
NAME rotate - Rotates an image by a specified angle SYNOPSIS rotate [-u IMAGE_URL] [-r ROTATION_ANGLE] arguments: <IMAGE_URL> Specify the full image URL. eg. http://www.yubnub.org/images/yubnub.png png, gif, jpeg image types are recognized. <ROTATION_ANGLE> Specify the rotation angle (counter-clockwise) Negative angles allowed. EXAMPLES rotate -u http://www.yubnub.org/images/yubnub.png -r 180 rotate -u http://www.somewhere.com/image.jpg -r -45 NOTES Occasionally, there are some bizarre colour c…
295 uses - Created 2006-03-26 00:52:55 - Last used 2023-05-30 07:50:16 - Description - http://rotatetest.ning.com/imagerotate.php?u=${u}&r=${r}&xn_auth=no

esnips
Searches all content on eSnips for the supplied tag. Don't use quotation marks. Example: esnips social bookmarking
295 uses - Created 2006-05-18 04:00:46 - Last used 2014-01-15 12:00:05 - Nominate - Description - http://www.esnips.com/ViewTagsAction.ns?ns_EventTarget=search&ns_EventArgument=&searchTerm=%s&showTypes=BOTH

slev
This is a short cut to the post events in Second Life. This will only work if you are logged into secondlife.com as a resident.
295 uses - Created 2009-03-21 16:44:16 - Last used 2012-11-12 22:28:38 - Nominate - Description - http://secondlife.com/events/

fallib
Search falmouth library catalogue, standard search.
295 uses - Created 2009-05-01 14:36:25 - Last used 2012-11-28 16:30:16 - Nominate - Description - http://voyager.falmouth.ac.uk/vwebv/search?searchArg=%s&searchCode=GKEY^*&limitTo=none&recCount=10&searchType=1&page.search.search.button=Search

tnid
Telephone Number IDentification lookup. To identify a number, just type it. Example: tnid 8885555555 Example: tnid 888-555-5555
295 uses - Created 2009-05-07 03:10:19 - Last used 2017-05-05 01:00:24 - Nominate - Description - http://tnid.org/lookup/{strReplace -find - -replace -string %s}

dhub
Search docker hub for an image
295 uses - Created 2019-11-24 20:49:00 - Last used 2025-06-28 07:42:42 - Nominate - Description - https://hub.docker.com/search?q=%s&type=image

defn
Returns a definition of a word. Example: defn nebula
294 uses - Created 2005-07-05 03:38:32 - Last used 2012-08-02 01:18:09 - Nominate - Description - http://efridge.net/yubnub/parse.php?ynp_tokens[]=resultbodyblack&ynp_tokens[]=resultbodyblack&ynp_tokens[]=resultbody&ynp_tokens[]=</span>%3Cbr&ynp_tokens[]=%3E&ynp_dirs[]=0&ynp_dirs[]=0&ynp_dirs[]=0&ynp_dirs[]=0&ynp_dirs[]=1&yndesturl=http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/%s.html&yncmd=${COMMAND}

tpinesouter
This command takes you to the Torrey Pines Outer Buoy Wave Period Bands webpage. It displays an java powered interactive plot of wave height, wave period and dominant direction.
294 uses - Created 2007-02-17 21:40:50 - Last used 2015-10-16 15:38:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.lajollasurf.org/torreypines.html

passpack
PassPack - Free Online Password Manager
294 uses - Created 2007-03-12 22:00:46 - Last used 2017-02-07 02:20:24 - Nominate - Description - https://www.passpack.com/

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