Type in a command, or "ls dictionary" to search all commands for "dictionary", etc.

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".

ebau
Searches Ebay Australia for a particular item. E.g. ebau watch
6484 uses - Created 2006-08-08 02:23:56 - Last used 2024-08-10 07:32:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/items/?_nkw=%s

hypem
searches the hype machine for mp3s. like hypep, but returns a webpage of found mp3s
6452 uses - Created 2007-03-18 22:56:15 - Last used 2024-01-07 07:17:03 - Nominate - Description - http://hypem.com/search/%s/1/

cmd
Alias for cmdline
6432 uses - Created 2005-08-07 17:00:24 - Last used 2024-10-30 06:56:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=cmdline+%s

l&c
Law&Crime website seach
6426 uses - Created 2023-03-23 18:02:11 - Last used 2025-01-11 07:06:17 - Nominate - Description - https://lawandcrime.com/?s=%s

dn
demonoid.me search Example: dn "linux" ========== Old implementation: http://www.demonoid.com/torrents/?s=%s
6412 uses - Created 2005-06-17 17:37:54 - Last used 2024-06-07 00:31:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.demonoid.me/files/?query=%s

lifehacker
Uses Google.com to search the Lifehacker website. Example: lifehacker reminders
6400 uses - Created 2007-01-31 03:29:06 - Last used 2024-12-19 02:30:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alifehacker.com+%s

mendic

6385 uses - Created 2016-05-28 03:32:28 - Last used 2018-12-15 05:32:46 - Nominate - Description - http://m.endic.naver.com/search.nhn?query=%s

lucky
Search using Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature. Instead of returning a list of matches for your search, it redirects you to the best match right away. Example: lucky Zhang Ziyi
6384 uses - Created 2005-07-31 16:14:36 - Last used 2024-05-09 03:42:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

iate
Search EN>ES on IATE
6377 uses - Created 2014-11-10 11:30:07 - Last used 2019-05-29 16:46:42 - Nominate - Description - http://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQuery.do?method=search&valid=Search+&sourceLanguage=en&targetLanguages=es&domain=0&typeOfSearch=s&request=&query=%s

ol
Onelook.com search (Dictionary Index) command for any word.
6355 uses - Created 2005-06-16 16:38:06 - Last used 2024-12-23 18:46:44 - Nominate - Description - http://onelook.com/?w=%s

wordref
Consults wordreference.
6338 uses - Created 2006-03-21 16:51:27 - Last used 2024-03-13 12:35:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wordreference.com/definition/%s

gvoice
Google Voice https://www.google.com/voice
6329 uses - Created 2009-03-13 15:42:30 - Last used 2019-05-15 19:23:21 - Nominate - Description - https://www.google.com/voice

ugs
Ultimate guitar song
6302 uses - Created 2006-08-14 21:20:17 - Last used 2017-01-07 14:40:03 - Nominate - Description - http://ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?s=%s&w=songs

lj (Golden Egg)
Jump to a given LiveJournal user's journal. "lj <username>" "lj <username>/friends/" should also take you to the friends page in question.
6298 uses - Created 2005-06-06 21:37:08 - Last used 2023-09-23 21:32:49 - Description - http://www.livejournal.com/users/%s[no url encoding]

wth
Runs a search on Wikisaurus, the wiki-based thesaurus. Example: wth afraid
6290 uses - Created 2009-04-12 21:02:50 - Last used 2024-12-03 23:11:46 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&ns110=1&fulltext=Search+Wikisaurus

map (Golden Egg)
use Multimap for worldwide map searches - postcode, town name, etc. ========== Old implementation: http://www.multimap.com/map/places.cgi?quicksearch=%s&client=public&lang=&advanced=
6269 uses - Created 2005-06-08 10:18:17 - Last used 2025-01-03 13:26:17 - Description - http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=%s&countryCode=GB

ade
amazon.de search German amazon.de Suche Deutsch
6257 uses - Created 2008-02-22 19:28:25 - Last used 2025-01-09 07:59:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.amazon.de/s?ie=UTF8&Los.x=0&keywords=%s&index=blended&Los.y=0&link%5Fcode=qs&tag-id=djkernelshomepag

cl
CraigsList
6168 uses - Created 2005-06-10 18:00:11 - Last used 2024-12-21 14:48:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.craigslist.org/{eop search/sss?query=@%s@}

ymail
open yahoo mail
6161 uses - Created 2005-07-11 11:38:02 - Last used 2024-12-05 11:12:50 - Nominate - Description - http://mail.yahoo.com/?.intl=us

xvideos
Search for adult movies on xvideos.com
6159 uses - Created 2008-07-03 06:25:00 - Last used 2025-01-10 07:40:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.xvideos.com/?k=%s

ask
Ask Jeeves
6149 uses - Created 2005-06-16 20:36:01 - Last used 2024-06-20 15:07:10 - Nominate - Description - http://web.ask.com/web?q=%s&qsrc=0&o=0

ytmt
Your Turn My Turn games website
6131 uses - Created 2010-07-07 19:06:46 - Last used 2019-07-02 19:53:35 - Nominate - Description - http://yourturnmyturn.com

duck

6112 uses - Created 2010-07-13 13:41:40 - Last used 2025-01-10 09:41:18 - Nominate - Description - http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

ced
Searches the Collins English Dictionary online for a word definition.
6109 uses - Created 2012-10-09 15:03:40 - Last used 2024-12-26 22:39:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/%s

ucc (Golden Egg)
Universal Currency Converter Usage: ucc <amount> <fromCurrency> <toCurrency> Example: ucc 100 USD EUR Currency 3 letter abbreviations available here: http://www.xe.com/iso4217.htm Thanks to Adrienne for inspiring this with the xe command. The main difference is the xe command requires switches, e.g -amount -to -from, because {% n } was not available when it was created. Author: Sam Inverso
6107 uses - Created 2007-08-07 06:49:05 - Last used 2024-02-07 19:03:11 - Description - http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount={% 1 %s}&From={% 2 %s}&To={% 3 %s}[no url encoding]

rtm
Takes you to your Remember the Milk page (if you're logged in)
6096 uses - Created 2005-10-31 23:00:34 - Last used 2019-09-16 00:50:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

javascript
Runs the provided javascript code using javascriptwindow.com
6054 uses - Created 2006-07-27 21:32:27 - Last used 2025-01-03 08:46:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.javascriptwindow.com?code=%s

ii
short ixquick
6045 uses - Created 2006-10-29 01:50:07 - Last used 2024-07-31 23:39:48 - Nominate - Description - http://us.ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?cat=web&cmd=process_search&language=english&ff=&query=%s

ml.ar (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS ml.ar [keywords] EXAMPLE ml.ar camaras digitales Searches MercadoLibre.com.ar using the given keyword (e.g. product name)
6040 uses - Created 2005-06-09 13:16:09 - Last used 2025-01-10 16:20:57 - Description - http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/search?as_word=%s

warez-bb
Title only search for the DDL site warez-bb host to many links
6039 uses - Created 2007-12-28 09:36:49 - Last used 2021-04-24 11:45:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.warez-bb.org/search.php?search_keywords=%s&search_fields=titleonly&search_terms=all

gib
Split view image and blog search
6014 uses - Created 2006-09-07 11:06:55 - Last used 2023-04-29 02:33:38 - Nominate - Description - splitv {url[no url encoding] gim %s} {url[no url encoding] gooblogs %s}

wwr
WordReference english to spanish traductor
5992 uses - Created 2009-04-26 13:13:01 - Last used 2021-02-04 17:24:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=%s

#
Google.com's I'm Feeling Lucky command.
5991 uses - Created 2006-03-24 09:05:59 - Last used 2024-12-23 02:27:26 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

yml
yahoo mail
5990 uses - Created 2005-06-27 00:03:57 - Last used 2025-01-10 09:14:09 - Nominate - Description - http://mail.yahoo.com

hoogle (Golden Egg)
The Haskell API Search Engine. Hoogle allows you to search by either name, or by approximate type signature. Example searches: hoogle map hoogle (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] hoogle Ord a => [a] -> [a]
5990 uses - Created 2005-10-31 16:48:53 - Last used 2024-10-06 13:09:06 - Description - http://haskell.org/hoogle/?q=%s

skreemr
SkreemR Search. Searches the self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Audio Search Site." Usage: skreemr (artist name, title, etc.) -l (number of results per page, 10 is default) -s (result number to begin at plus 1 {0, the default, displays the first result, etc.}) Examples: skreemr dethklok thunderhorse -l 100 -s 0
5979 uses - Created 2007-06-18 18:46:36 - Last used 2011-11-26 00:19:20 - Nominate - Description - http://skreemr.com/results.jsp?l=${l=10}&s=${s=0}&q=%s

ya
Search Yahoo!
5978 uses - Created 2005-06-23 03:04:50 - Last used 2024-04-05 06:35:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yahoo.com

gimyim (Golden Egg)
Compare Google Images and Yahoo Images example: gimyim lantana b.a.
5913 uses - Created 2005-08-04 20:03:52 - Last used 2025-01-08 21:30:18 - Description - split http://images.google.com/images?q=%s http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?&p=%s

ccrd
Cook County Document Image Search. Pulls up the image based on the Document number and Date of Recording. Admittedly, this has a VERY limited appeal.
5899 uses - Created 2007-06-20 20:01:42 - Last used 2012-11-02 20:29:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ccrd.info/CCRD/controller?optflag=DocumentImageCommand&doc_num={% 1 %s}&record_date={% 2 %s}[no url encoding]

phone (Golden Egg)
WhitePages.com Residential Directory Assistance Search Find phone book listings by searching based on name, address, or phone number. Examples: phone (206) 802-2120 phone 206-802-2120 phone John Smith, Seattle, WA phone John Smith, 98107 phone 4802 Third, Seattle, WA phone 4802 Third, 98107
5884 uses - Created 2005-06-20 14:55:18 - Last used 2024-11-09 06:52:15 - Description - http://www.whitepages.com/search/SingleField?q=%s

luckyecho (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS luckyecho [keywords] EXAMPLE luckyecho beautiful descriptions results in: http://eemadges.com/ luckyecho command line for the web results in: http://www.yubnub.org/ Echoes the URL of the first result of googling your keywords. SIMILAR COMMANDS am> (luckyecho is actually a building block for this command) AUTHOR elzr.com Sean O'Hagan's scrape command, as always, was a pleasure to use. ---------- Old implementations: scrape -tokens class=l href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 1 0 -url {url g %s} scrape …
5834 uses - Created 2006-07-24 03:47:59 - Last used 2020-03-29 07:13:56 - Description - scrape -tokens href=%22/url?q= &amp;sa=u -dirs 0 0 -url {url g %s}

awq
Arch Linux wiki search.
5833 uses - Created 2006-09-02 23:03:45 - Last used 2024-12-21 07:14:03 - Nominate - Description - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Search?search=%s

metalband
Searches in Metal Archives for a band.
5831 uses - Created 2005-06-21 10:27:25 - Last used 2020-03-03 10:14:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.metal-archives.com/search.php?string=%s&type=band

gmapsuk
Searches Google Maps UK
5829 uses - Created 2005-06-17 09:37:24 - Last used 2021-01-07 11:18:03 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=%s

crmod
Looks up Oracle CRMoD by Opportunity ID
5829 uses - Created 2013-01-15 00:04:03 - Last used 2016-10-14 18:01:43 - Nominate - Description - https://secure-slsomxuna.crmondemand.com/OnDemand/user/OpportunityDetail?OpptyDetailForm.Id=%s

4ch
SYNOPSIS 4ch [abbreviation of board] EXAMPLES 4ch b 4ch x Goes to the specified 4chan imageboard, given by its abbreviation (e.g. b for random, x for paranormal). ---------- Old implementation: http://cgi.4chan.org/%s/imgboard.html
5804 uses - Created 2007-05-27 20:34:31 - Last used 2024-03-02 13:52:59 - Nominate - Description - http://4chan.org/%s

the

5766 uses - Created 2005-07-10 17:41:07 - Last used 2025-01-10 12:15:27 - Nominate - Description - https://www.google.com/search?q=the+%s

kwiki
Does a search on KOL Visual Wiki.
5760 uses - Created 2006-05-04 07:10:55 - Last used 2024-04-11 02:31:16 - Nominate - Description - http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Special:Search?search=%s&sourceid=Mozilla-search

css
It allows you to get to CSS documentation. cssdocs border takes you to W3C documentation for the border property.
5759 uses - Created 2006-12-22 12:11:55 - Last used 2024-12-14 01:03:56 - Nominate - Description - http://cssdocs.org/%s

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