Command List (ls)

url (Golden Egg)
Converts a YubNub command to a URL. For example, url gim porsche 911 displays the following text: http://images.google.com/images?q=porsche+911 This command will be useful for people experimenting with chaining YubNub commands together.
4561658 uses - Created 2005-07-15 04:39:23 - Last used 2026-05-21 02:13:57 - Description - http://yubnub.org/parser/url?command=%s

gdeff
Performs a "Google Define:" command which gets definitions of the word(s) in all languages you've submitted
2261430 uses - Created 2006-09-08 06:56:40 - Last used 2025-04-19 22:04:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+%s&hl=en&lr=&oi=definel&defl=all

explode (Golden Egg)
NAME explode - Explodes a string to an array in xml, xoxo, or json(p) format EXAMPLES explode 1,2,3,4 Returns XML-style 'array' with elements 1, 2, 3, and 4 explode 1+2+3+4 -token + Returns XML-style 'array' with elements 1, 2, 3, and 4 explode 1,2,3,4 -as xoxo Returns XOXO-style 'array' with elements 1, 2, 3, and 4 explode 1,2,3,4 -as json Returns JSON-style 'array' with elements 1, 2, 3, and 4 explode 1,2,3,4 -as json -callback x Returns JSONP-style 'array' with elements 1, 2, 3, and 4 using …
211559 uses - Created 2006-04-25 11:02:09 - Last used 2024-10-12 17:48:57 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/singpolymaplay/yubnub-explode.php?xn_auth=no&data=%s&token=${token=,}&as=${as=xml}&callback=${callback}

FB
facebook search for keyword or shortcut to facebook main page (if no keyword given) searches Names, Profiles, Groups, Events in All Networks for keyword Examples: fbk john doe alaska (goes to http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=john+doe+alaska) fbk (goes to http://www.facebook.com)
189734 uses - Created 2005-06-25 02:53:32 - Last used 2026-06-06 10:27:51 - Nominate - Description - http://www.facebook.com{ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then /s.php?q=%s}

myicomp
30dc tool. Automatically checks phrase against MYI
189286 uses - Created 2007-08-08 21:04:10 - Last used 2014-02-02 12:13:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/trends?q=male+yeast+infection%2C+%22%s%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Gphraseus
Automatically adds quotations to your search phrase, as well as "&gl=US".
188566 uses - Created 2007-08-09 03:02:51 - Last used 2025-01-20 08:18:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22%s%22&btnG=Google+Search&gl=US

gfl
Google's I Feel Lucky option Takes you to the 1st option.
170460 uses - Created 2005-06-24 02:56:41 - Last used 2026-06-08 06:31:37 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

neverending
Neverending :D
70991 uses - Created 2006-12-30 23:18:41 - Last used 2026-02-10 05:34:40 - Nominate - Description - http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=neverending+%s

goto (Golden Egg)
Go directly to Google's number one result
65143 uses - Created 2005-06-08 14:06:05 - Last used 2026-06-03 01:25:03 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky

xim
This is pretty simple, actually. It performs an advanced search on google for large images with aldult filtering turned off. For example, to find large, unfiltered photos with "boobs", type: xim boobs That's it.
37803 uses - Created 2005-06-28 02:10:48 - Last used 2026-06-08 13:42:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/images?as_q=%s&svnum=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&imgsz=xxlarge&as_filetype=&imgc=&as_sitesearch=&safe=off

ifl
I'm feeling lucky - from Google
37079 uses - Created 2005-07-12 15:25:02 - Last used 2026-06-08 08:04:56 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

bgg (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS bgg [board game] EXAMPLES bgg monopoly bgg settlers of catan Displays information on the given board game, courtesy of BoardGameGeek.com. Ratings, comments, number of players, playing time, etc. ---------- Old implementation: http://www.google.ca/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=site%3Aboardgamegeek.com+%s
36723 uses - Created 2005-06-06 01:07:49 - Last used 2026-05-31 13:25:48 - Description - http://boardgamegeek.com/geeksearch.php?action=search&objecttype=boardgame&q=%s

extractDomainName
SYNOPSIS extractDomainName [URL] EXAMPLES extractDomainName http://www.amazon.com/ returns: amazon.com extractDomainName eemadges.com returns: eemadges.com extractDomainName http://en.wikipedia.org?search=%s returns: en.wikipedia.org extractDomainName http://seek.sing365.com:8080/cgi-bin/s.cgi?q=ladytron returns: sing365.com extractDomainName https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/.html returns: cia.gov (thanks to Frank Raiser for noticing the https bug!) Extracts the domain name fr…
36522 uses - Created 2006-01-21 22:33:14 - Last used 2024-04-10 08:19:02 - Nominate - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/extractDomainName.php?url=%s

wa
Wolfram|Alpha Search. Wolfram|Alpha is a computational knowlegde engine. It generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links. A few things to try: * enter any date (e.g. a birth date): june 23, 1988 * enter any town (e.g. a home town): new york * enter any two stocks: IBM Apple * enter any calculation: $250 + 15% * enter any math formula: x^2 sin(x) http://www.wolframalpha.com
26194 uses - Created 2009-05-19 08:20:47 - Last used 2026-05-07 17:48:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%s

gmp3 (Golden Egg)
find mp3s using google
24822 uses - Created 2005-06-08 18:22:06 - Last used 2026-02-04 14:13:00 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=+-inurl%3Ahtm+-inurl%3Ahtml+intitle%3A%22index+of%22+%22Last+modified%22+mp3+%22%s%22

gbs
Google Blog Search ========== Old implementation: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=%s&hl=en
21119 uses - Created 2005-09-14 14:48:39 - Last used 2024-09-19 20:59:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=%s&btnG=Search+Blogs

Face
facebook search for keyword or shortcut to facebook main page (if no keyword given) searches Names, Profiles, Groups, Events in All Networks for keyword Examples: fbk john doe alaska (goes to http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=john+doe+alaska) fbk (goes to http://www.facebook.com)
19133 uses - Created 2005-06-16 13:32:32 - Last used 2026-05-10 09:01:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.facebook.com{ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then /s.php?q=%s}

gwp
A wikipedia search by way of google.
18147 uses - Created 2005-07-02 14:07:11 - Last used 2024-08-07 10:53:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=site:en.wikipedia.org+%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

gdef
Performs a "Google Define:" command which gets definitions of the word(s) you've submitted
12451 uses - Created 2005-06-20 18:20:57 - Last used 2026-06-08 06:45:44 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+%s

superg (Golden Egg)
NAME superg - All(most) Google searches in one command SYNOPSIS superg [KEYWORDS] -t [SEARCH TYPE] EXAMPLES superg yubnub superg yubnub -t lucky superg yubnub -t images superg is one big command that supports all of the Google Search types except for video and directory (those two were left out because their implementation would have greatly increased the complexity of the command and I'm not sure many people use them) If no -t is passed a standard Google websearch is performed. The following a…
11594 uses - Created 2006-08-08 00:18:04 - Last used 2025-04-10 08:33:06 - Description - http://{ifthen -value1 ${t} -value2 lucky -test EQUAL -then www -else ${t=www}}.google.com/{ifthen -value1 ${t} -value2 lucky -test EQUAL -then search -else ${t=search}}?q=%s{ifthen -value1 ${t} -value2 lucky -test EQUAL -then &btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky -else}

mysql
Search the MySQL Reference Manual. ---------- Old implementation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/search.php?q=%s
10674 uses - Created 2005-06-29 21:48:30 - Last used 2026-05-21 18:42:52 - Nominate - Description - https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Adev.mysql.com&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

origo
Search on the hungarian news portal origo.hu.
10532 uses - Created 2008-02-25 09:29:50 - Last used 2026-06-06 07:56:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aorigo.hu+%s

gloc (Golden Egg)
Google Local. Find local businesses and services on the web. Examples: gloc pizza Poughkeepsie, NY gloc -what pizza -where Poughkeepsie, NY Sometimes the information you're looking for is related to a particular place -- like the all-night doughnut shop that's nearest to your house. Google Local locates neighborhood stores and services by searching billions of pages across the Web, then cross-checking those results with Yellow Pages data to pinpoint the local resources you want to find. This in…
9406 uses - Created 2005-06-23 05:31:46 - Last used 2023-10-31 00:39:58 - Description - http://www.google.com/local?sc=1&hl=en&q=%s${what}&near=${where}&btnG=Google+Search&rl=1

gimf (Golden Egg)
searches Google images using its face recognition setting thats unavailable through the normal options
9378 uses - Created 2008-08-06 08:02:39 - Last used 2026-06-08 18:50:50 - Description - http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%s&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&imgtype=face

subdivx
A spanish speaking community of movie and series subtitles. Busca en www.subdivx.com. Una comunidad hispanohablante de subtítulos de películas y series ========== Old implementation: http://www.subdivx.com/index.php?buscar=%s&submit=buscar+subt%EDtulo&accion=5&realiza_b=1
9137 uses - Created 2007-08-27 04:03:27 - Last used 2024-11-05 10:21:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.subdivx.com/index.php?accion=5&masdesc=&buscar=%s&oxfecha=2

bbc (Golden Egg)
A mashup of bbc and bbc+, it gives you the bbc homepage if you don't specify anything, and if you do, the following holds true: A better search of the BBC site. Synopsis: bbc++ topic [-tab news|sport|allbbc|www] In English: You can search bbc news just by typing bbc++ follwed by one or more words of the subject to search for. Examples: bbc++ tony blair bbc++ shuttle Discovery launch To search for sports news, other items at the BBC, or to search the web, add the -tab keyword, followed by one of…
8875 uses - Created 2005-06-09 03:56:42 - Last used 2026-05-08 10:33:47 - Description - {ifnotempty %s -then http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=newsukfs&q=%s&tab=${tab=news} -else http://news.bbc.co.uk}

ppa
Search user-contributed software packages published in any Ubuntu PPA. Personal Package Archives (PPA) allow you to upload Ubuntu source packages to be built and published as an apt repository by Launchpad. You can find out more about PPAs and how to use them in our quick-start guide.
8768 uses - Created 2008-08-14 14:24:46 - Last used 2026-03-23 07:53:51 - Nominate - Description - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=%s

utf8to
Converts the URL query-string values from UTF-8 (YubNub's default encoding) to another encoding. Example: utf8to eucjp http://pt.afl.rakuten.co.jp/c/03988311.d77f8002/?sitem=%E3%81%8B%E3%82%93%E3%81%98&sv=2&p=0 utf8to iso-8859-1 http://www.upplysning.se/search.aspx?what=%C3%A5%2C+%C3%A4+or+%C3%B6&where=&bs=S%F6k&searchkey=54578586&tab=person Supported character encodings: * UCS-4 * UCS-4BE * UCS-4LE * UCS-2 * UCS-2BE * UCS-2LE * UTF-32 * UTF-32BE * UTF-32LE * UTF-16 * UTF-16BE * UTF-16LE * UTF-…
8644 uses - Created 2007-11-27 05:01:13 - Last used 2025-09-07 15:55:22 - Nominate - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/utf8to?inputs=%s

drupal
Performs a search of Drupal.org using Google, because Drupal's search engine sucks.
7304 uses - Created 2006-01-07 00:00:25 - Last used 2025-05-06 01:20:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?as_q=%s&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=drupal.org&as_rights=&safe=off

ASCII (Golden Egg)
This command will display any text you type as ASCII art in all the avaliable fonts. (From the site http://www.network-science.de/ascii/) Example: ASCII ascii Produces a page including the following lines. _______ _______ _______ _____ _____ |_____| |______ | | | | | ______| |_____ __|__ __|__
7289 uses - Created 2005-06-15 19:10:53 - Last used 2026-04-10 23:58:55 - Description - http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ascii.php?TEXT=%s&x=8&y=7&FONT=_all+fonts+with+your+text_&RICH=no&FORM=left&STRE=no

gx (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS gx [keywords] EXAMPLE gx diakonos mined editor Google exact search. Places a + in front of each search term to force Google not to use synonyms. SEE ALSO "Search exactly as is (+)" http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861
7130 uses - Created 2009-05-24 04:05:11 - Last used 2026-02-14 14:42:50 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%2B{strReplace -find + -replace +%2B -string %s}

fbk
facebook search for keyword or shortcut to facebook main page (if no keyword given) searches Names, Profiles, Groups, Events in All Networks for keyword Examples: fbk john doe alaska (goes to http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=john+doe+alaska) fbk (goes to http://www.facebook.com)
7070 uses - Created 2006-03-22 19:21:59 - Last used 2024-05-10 03:57:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.facebook.com{ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then /s.php?q=%s}

dss
del.icio.us user + tag. use this to get bookmarks for a specific user. dss username tag Example: dss racter php separate multiple tags with a '+' Example: dss racter php+programming+rss
6987 uses - Created 2005-08-20 21:18:45 - Last used 2024-07-16 10:45:58 - Nominate - Description - http://del.icio.us/%s[use / for spaces]

cmd
Alias for cmdline
6444 uses - Created 2005-08-07 17:00:24 - Last used 2026-03-21 01:45:46 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=cmdline+%s

lifehacker
Uses Google.com to search the Lifehacker website. Example: lifehacker reminders
6403 uses - Created 2007-01-31 03:29:06 - Last used 2026-02-17 11:57:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alifehacker.com+%s

wth
Runs a search on Wikisaurus, the wiki-based thesaurus. Example: wth afraid
6390 uses - Created 2009-04-12 21:02:50 - Last used 2026-06-03 00:27:34 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&ns110=1&fulltext=Search+Wikisaurus

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
6388 uses - Created 2005-07-31 16:14:36 - Last used 2026-03-22 22:13:34 - 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

the

6169 uses - Created 2005-07-10 17:41:07 - Last used 2026-06-05 04:13:58 - Nominate - Description - https://www.google.com/search?q=the+%s

#
Google.com's I'm Feeling Lucky command.
5998 uses - Created 2006-03-24 09:05:59 - Last used 2026-02-23 04:20:34 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

gnl
Google search in Dutch pages only.
5506 uses - Created 2005-10-22 09:32:04 - Last used 2026-01-07 08:17:00 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=%s&btnG=Google+zoeken&meta=cr%3DcountryNL

ubfs
Ubuntu forums search. Searches ubuntuforums.org via google.
5141 uses - Created 2006-07-27 00:17:45 - Last used 2018-11-08 08:47:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=site%3Aubuntuforums.org+%s&btnG=Search

sp1
SYNOPSIS sp1 [word(s) to check spelling] -engine [localized Google version to use in spell checking, optional, defaults to Google English] EXAMPLE sp1 cmbodia results: cambodia sp1 paecekeeper results: peacekeeper sp1 monica belluci results: monica+bellucci sp1 sucche -engine gde results: suche (Because spelling "suche" --search in German-- as "sucche" is a common mistake of German speakers. Note that Google English wouldn't see this is a misspell…
5062 uses - Created 2006-01-30 17:52:49 - Last used 2014-12-25 07:50:44 - Nominate - Description - scrape -tokens spell=1 class=p> </a>   -dirs 0 0 0 -url {url[no url encoding] ${engine=g} %s}

vim
Searches the vim.org documentation for tips, scripts, and docs.
4988 uses - Created 2005-07-09 05:56:16 - Last used 2026-05-01 06:52:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avim.org+%s

mfr
Searches mediafire.com
4976 uses - Created 2007-09-29 15:20:31 - Last used 2022-06-05 18:38:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amediafire.com+%s

trailer (Golden Egg)
Uses Google to search Apple for the most likely movie trailer. Example: trailer smith
4875 uses - Created 2005-06-21 04:41:00 - Last used 2025-06-09 11:59:38 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aapple.com%2Ftrailers+%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

ihep
Search High Energy Physics inSPIRE data base with SPRIRES syntax (find "%s")
4840 uses - Created 2010-11-06 09:52:18 - Last used 2026-06-05 02:58:28 - Nominate - Description - http://inspirebeta.net/search?&f=&action_search&p=find+%s

shares
searches rapidshare.de | rapidshare.com | sendfile.com | megaupload.com
4833 uses - Created 2007-09-07 18:45:23 - Last used 2017-09-01 18:15:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.de/search?q=%s+q=rapidshare.de%20%7C%20rapidshare.com%20%7C%20sendfile.com%20%7C%20megaupload.com&hl=de&meta=

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