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Command List (ls)

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".

googlesites
google sites
27 uses - Created 2008-09-07 23:04:57 - Last used 2018-04-19 04:14:00 - Nominate - Description - http://sites.google.com/

isup?
Is site down for everyone or just me? To check whether a web site is alive, just type the address. Example: isup? gmail.com
17 uses - Created 2008-09-07 22:53:45 - Last used 2017-10-21 08:04:13 - Nominate - Description - http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/%s

amt
Pulls up the page for the requested tag on Ask Metafilter. To pull up all posts tagged with "bed," just type "amt bed." To pull up posts tagged with two or more words, separate each word with a space, and YubNub should automatically add the required "+".
245 uses - Created 2008-09-07 21:10:12 - Last used 2025-04-23 06:33:54 - Nominate - Description - http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/%s

jaycar
Jaycar!
17 uses - Created 2008-09-07 14:24:00 - Last used 2025-12-22 23:38:59 - Nominate - Description - http://jaycar.com.au

demorse
Morse Code de-translator. From Qbit.it/lab/ For translation of typed morse code to text. To translate code, just enter it after the word "demorse", using periods and dashes, spaces to signify the end of a letter, and forward slashes to signify spaces between words. Example: demorse -.-. --- --. .. - --- / . .-. --. --- / ... ..- --
43 uses - Created 2008-09-07 01:05:10 - Last used 2014-03-10 13:35:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.qbit.it/lab/demorse.php?text=%s

morse
Morse Code translator. From Qbit.it/lab/ For translation of typed text to morse code. To translate text, just enter it after the word "morse" Example: morse cogito ergo sum
130 uses - Created 2008-09-07 00:38:15 - Last used 2023-08-09 16:02:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.qbit.it/lab/morse.php?text=%s

torntz
Search on torrentz.com
1118 uses - Created 2008-09-06 16:01:27 - Last used 2021-05-07 11:02:14 - Nominate - Description - http://www.torrentz.com/search?q=%s

lcc
WorldCat Library Card Catalog - does not specify a location, but uses the last one provided in the browser.
222 uses - Created 2008-09-06 14:49:15 - Last used 2016-04-26 07:57:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=%s&qt=advanced

apira
Search Rails documentation at apidock.com.
491 uses - Created 2008-09-06 13:28:12 - Last used 2016-03-02 06:35:33 - Nominate - Description - http://apidock.com/rails/search?query=%s&commit=Search

apirb
Search Ruby documentation at apidock.com.
245 uses - Created 2008-09-06 13:25:06 - Last used 2017-06-21 06:38:21 - Nominate - Description - http://apidock.com/ruby/search?query=%s&commit=Search

poc
Searches the eventphone phonebook for current event ---------- Old implementation: https://www.eventphone.de/guru/phonebookquery.php?event=_current_&s=%s
95 uses - Created 2008-09-06 10:40:15 - Last used 2023-06-28 17:41:55 - Nominate - Description - https://www.eventphone.de/guru2/phonebook?event=_current_&s=%s

freeones
Search FreeOnes (adult)
1345 uses - Created 2008-09-06 06:30:23 - Last used 2026-02-07 10:12:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.freeones.com/search/?q=%s

xflv
XFire Live Video page. View the live broadcast of an existing user of the gaming messenger, xfire. To view the broadcast page for an xfire user, simply give the username. Example: xflv eibmoz
28 uses - Created 2008-09-06 05:05:10 - Last used 2011-11-12 23:15:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.xfire.com/live_video/%s

hurricane
hurricane=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml
44 uses - Created 2008-09-06 04:11:02 - Last used 2023-11-30 12:46:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml

alib

41 uses - Created 2008-09-06 04:02:32 - Last used 2018-11-25 04:26:09 - Nominate - Description - http://books.google.com/books?q=%s&uid=9460048674777433124

gbtext
Google Books Full View - search the text of books freely available on Google Books. You can see books in Full View if the book is out of copyright, or if the publisher or author has asked to make the book fully viewable. The Full View allows you to view any page from the book, and if the book is in the public domain, you can download, save and print a PDF version.
211 uses - Created 2008-09-06 03:44:58 - Last used 2016-10-17 09:40:08 - Nominate - Description - http://books.google.com/books?q=%s&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=1

ares
Search music like in Ares!
111 uses - Created 2008-09-05 16:09:43 - Last used 2018-12-05 11:13:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.aresmusica.org/index.php?search=%s&source=all

bhsproxy

14 uses - Created 2008-09-05 15:43:54 - Last used 2010-09-16 02:55:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.notanotherportfolio.com/dbhsfilter2/

ema

40 uses - Created 2008-09-05 15:10:03 - Last used 2019-01-25 07:52:21 - Nominate - Description - http://roundcube.dreamhost.com/

kidsinmind
www.kids-in-mind.com search Kids-in-mind is a service that rates movies based on: Sex/Nudity Violence/Gore Language
28 uses - Created 2008-09-05 13:37:37 - Last used 2020-07-31 01:43:10 - Nominate - Description - http://www.kids-in-mind.com/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?q=%s

xaddr
Finds a XING contact. The difference to the existing 'xing' command is that it uses your XING address book instead of the global dictionary. You need to be logged in to XING for the command to work. Example: xaddr wolfgang werner
20 uses - Created 2008-09-05 08:42:14 - Last used 2010-01-03 21:53:41 - Nominate - Description - https://www.xing.com/app/contact?op=contactlist&search_filter=%s

grav
Get's the gravatar relating to any email address
65 uses - Created 2008-09-05 08:32:44 - Last used 2024-11-18 08:10:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/{md5 %s}

zipp
Lookup ZIP+4 information for any U.S. address using the U.S. Postal Service lookup page. You must supply a street address as the first parameter, and then either a city and state (as a two-letter abbreviation), or a ZIP code. The street address must come first and does not need to be labeled. The other parameters are -city, -state, and -zip. Examples: both zipp 1600 pennsylvania ave -city washington -state dc and zipp 1600 pennsylvania ave -zip 20500 give the same results both zipp 532 N. 7th S…
42 uses - Created 2008-09-05 01:48:16 - Last used 2020-06-06 18:24:58 - Nominate - Description - http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/zcl_0_results.jsp?visited=1&pagenumber=0&firmname=&address2=%s&address1=&city=${city}&state=${state}&urbanization=&zip5=${zip}&submit.x=20&submit.y=8&submit=Find+ZIP+Code

geocity
Get approximate lat/lon location data if all you have is a city and state code. Example: geocity -city jamaica plain -state MA
11 uses - Created 2008-09-04 21:27:46 - Last used 2011-05-16 02:11:49 - Nominate - Description - http://geocoder.us/service/csv/geocode?city=${city}&state=${state}

ico
NAME ico - Displays the favicon of a website. SYNOPSIS ico [DOMAIN] EXAMPLES ico yubnub.org This command displays a PNG image of a website's favicon, as found on Google Shared Stuff (S2). NOTES Inspired by http://www.labnol.org/internet/get-favicon-image-of-websites-with-google/4404/. AUTHOR Scott Frey scott dot frey at gmail dot com
128 uses - Created 2008-09-04 17:12:44 - Last used 2025-10-21 23:05:18 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/s2/favicons?domain=%s

ampares

41 uses - Created 2008-09-04 15:12:05 - Last used 2009-05-29 07:32:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=n73lnhvq13dgti7rcl5j0js31s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York

promoconso

205 uses - Created 2008-09-04 15:02:45 - Last used 2026-02-18 07:47:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.promo-conso.net/recherche.php?keyword=%s

ebuyclub

77 uses - Created 2008-09-04 15:01:30 - Last used 2010-09-27 12:39:19 - Nominate - Description - http://achat.ebuyclub.com/comparaisons.php?mots_clefs=%s

ocm
Open a module description page from the OCaml library reference. Example: Pervasives Example: Unix
22 uses - Created 2008-09-04 10:20:14 - Last used 2012-03-06 21:45:55 - Nominate - Description - http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/%s.html

neat
Neatorama is like BoingBoing, but less high-brow and a lot more fun. The whole site is almost a clearinghouse of weird.
855 uses - Created 2008-09-04 02:41:39 - Last used 2023-08-10 12:11:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.neatorama.com/

pdm
Please Dress Me Search. T-Shirt search engine. Example: pdm beer
36 uses - Created 2008-09-03 14:35:57 - Last used 2024-03-27 11:23:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pleasedress.me/?q=%s

emap1

100 uses - Created 2008-09-03 11:03:35 - Last used 2013-04-18 16:50:34 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.com/?hl=iw&ie=UTF8&ll=32.226743,34.747009&spn=2.183969,2.69989&z=9

ibmbp
Shorter name for ibmname (looks up BluePages record). I had a hard time typping ibmname each time I used it........;-)
1886 uses - Created 2008-09-03 08:49:55 - Last used 2014-03-04 06:56:09 - Nominate - Description - http://w3.ibm.com/bluepages/simpleSearch.wss?location=All+locations&searchBy=Name&searchFor=%s&task=viewrecord

gist
New gist on github (works best if already logged-in)
187 uses - Created 2008-09-03 04:24:55 - Last used 2026-02-23 10:47:51 - Nominate - Description - http://gist.github.com/

limon
Allows looking up of hebrew and english words in limon's online dictionary
31 uses - Created 2008-09-03 04:11:10 - Last used 2013-07-17 12:36:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.jlc.org.il/limon/limon.php?term=%s&type=web

acid3

83 uses - Created 2008-09-03 02:15:25 - Last used 2012-10-18 04:08:55 - Nominate - Description - http://acid3.acidtests.org/

sscr
Scroogle SSL Search. no cookies | no search-term records | access log deleted after 7 days
4907 uses - Created 2008-09-02 21:58:15 - Last used 2012-06-12 07:22:43 - Nominate - Description - https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=%s

djd
Searches the latest development version of the Django docs, using their new sphinx-based doc system.
1566 uses - Created 2008-09-02 19:48:13 - Last used 2021-10-25 15:06:39 - Nominate - Description - http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/search/?cx=009763561546736975936%3Ae88ek0eurf4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&hl=&q=%s&sa=Search&as_q=more%3Adev_docs#1012

asciigenerator
Ascii generator :)
37 uses - Created 2008-09-02 17:30:05 - Last used 2019-09-02 03:25:27 - Nominate - Description - http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ascii.php?TEXT=%s&FONT=_all+fonts+with+your+text_&RICH=no&FORM=left&STRE=no&WIDT=80&x=23&y=10

buien
The weather in the Netherlands with the all famous buienradar
1132 uses - Created 2008-09-02 15:55:00 - Last used 2023-01-01 12:43:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.buienradar.nl/h.aspx?jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur1x1

atoz
search of scientific journals in EBSCO A-to-Z
153 uses - Created 2008-09-02 13:23:38 - Last used 2012-10-10 05:48:54 - Nominate - Description - http://atoz.ebsco.com/titles.asp?txtKeyword=%s&SF=Titles&id=3624&sid=130701560&LH=&lang.subject=&lang.menu=&lang=&cmdSearchSubmit=Search&optPages=1

feedview
NAME feedview - open a feed in an RSS reader. SYNOPSIS feedview [ RSS_FEED ] [ FEED_READER_COMMAND ] The feedview command displays an RSS feed using the YubNub command for an online viewer. The user can specify any feed or command, but by default feedview will display the YubNub feed of comments made through JS-Kit.com and use Google Reader (rssread). EXAMPLES Example: feedview Result: Returns the YubNub comments feed with the default Google Reader. Note: If not signed-in, only 10 items from th…
53 uses - Created 2008-09-02 04:51:10 - Last used 2018-02-11 08:46:55 - Nominate - Description - yu {ifEmpty -value {% 2 %s} -then rssread -else {% 2 %s}} {ifEmpty -value {% 1 %s} -then http://js-kit.com/rss/yubnub.org -else {% 1 %s}}

jisho2
Jisho. Searches the Japanese <-> English EDICT database over at jisho.org. This command translates from Eng to Jap. See jisho for Jap to Eng.
23 uses - Created 2008-09-01 21:30:35 - Last used 2015-11-04 12:12:54 - Nominate - Description - http://jisho.org/words?jap=&dict=edict&eng=%s

jisho
Jisho. Searches the Japanese <-> English EDICT database over at jisho.org. This command translates from Jap to Eng. See jisho2 for Eng to Jap.
1593 uses - Created 2008-09-01 21:28:44 - Last used 2026-01-17 11:43:19 - Nominate - Description - http://jisho.org/words?eng=&dict=edict&jap=%s

cashstorefr
A simple command to search a product on Cashstore French website. Une commande simple pour effectuer une recherche sur le site français de Cashstore. e.g. (ex.) : cashstorefr La Redoute
26 uses - Created 2008-09-01 10:27:09 - Last used 2008-11-17 15:58:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.cashstore.fr/psearchresult.aspx?kw=%s

scrapefeed
NAME scrapefeed - returns an RSS feed from a website. SYNOPSIS scrapefeed [ URL ] -feedlength [ MIN_LENGTH_OF_FEED ] scrapefeed attempts to return an RSS feed from a website. The only required parameter is the URL of that site, but the feedlength argument may be supplied to filter out links containing relative paths, etc. EXAMPLES Example: scrapefeed Result: Returns nothing no URL was provided. Example: scrapefeed http://www.linux.com Result: Returns http://www.linux.com/feature/?theme=rss Exam…
202 uses - Created 2008-09-01 07:27:08 - Last used 2013-03-19 19:14:29 - Nominate - Description - ifThen -value1 {strLength {scrape -tokens %22%20type=%22application/rss href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 0 0 -url %s}} -value2 ${feedlength=20} -test GREATEREQUAL -then {scrape -tokens %22%20type=%22application/rss href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 0 0 -url %s} -else {ifThen -value1 {strLength {scrape -tokens %22%20type=%22application/rss href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 1 0 -url %s}} -value2 ${feedlength=20} -test GREATEREQUAL -then {scrape -tokens %22%20type=%22application/rss href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 1 0 -url %s} -else {ifThen -value1 {strLength {scrape -tokens %22%20type=%22application/atom href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 0 0 -url %s}} -value2 ${feedlength=20} -test GREATEREQUAL -then {scrape -tokens %22%20type=%22application/atom href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 0 0 -url %s} -else {ifThen -value1 {strLength {scrape -tokens %22%20type=%22application/atom href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 1 0 -url %s}} -value2 ${feedlength=20} -test GREATEREQUAL -then {scrape -tokens %22%20type=%22application/atom href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 1 0 -url %s} -else {ifThen -value1 {strLength {scrape -tokens xml href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 0 0 -url %s}} -value2 ${feedlength=20} -test GREATEREQUAL -then {scrape -tokens xml href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 0 0 -url %s} -else {ifThen -value1 {strLength {scrape -tokens xml href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 1 0 -url %s}} -value2 ${feedlength=20} -test GREATEREQUAL -then {scrape -tokens xml href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 1 0 -url %s} -else {ifThen -value1 {strLength {scrape -tokens rss href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 1 0 -url %s}} -value2 ${feedlength=20} -test GREATEREQUAL -then {scrape -tokens rss href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 1 0 -url %s} -else {ifThen -value1 {strLength {scrape -tokens rss href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 0 0 -url %s}} -value2 ${feedlength=20} -test GREATEREQUAL -then {scrape -tokens rss href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 0 0 -url %s} -else %s}}}}}}}[no url encoding]

bsearch
Searches binsearch.info for past 70 days of news feeds. Displays max 250 results on a single page.
33 uses - Created 2008-08-31 18:51:42 - Last used 2008-10-10 03:22:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.binsearch.info/?q=%s&max=250&adv_age=70&server=

kul
University of Kansas Libraries
54 uses - Created 2008-08-31 17:36:26 - Last used 2014-02-13 05:53:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.lib.ku.edu/

gfuk
Display Google Finance UK page for a given stock code
1137 uses - Created 2008-08-31 16:27:56 - Last used 2013-05-14 08:25:07 - Nominate - Description - http://finance.google.co.uk/finance?q=%s

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