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".

pseek
Perform a search via searchengine "http://beta.previewseek.com" EXAMPLE: pseek "google"
36 uses - Created 2005-11-24 13:25:59 - Last used 2006-09-12 08:56:01 - Nominate - Description - http://beta.previewseek.com/?query=%s&&tag=231656690I1132838268&&vid=l217249234I1132836818&&twin=n&&target=web&cl=res&ndv=y&list=3

zvab
Search german ZVAB (Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher) for antiquarian books. To search using simple keywords.
167 uses - Created 2005-11-24 08:12:45 - Last used 2024-09-27 00:22:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.zvab.com/index.html?term=%s

dicfind
NAME dicfind - displays dictionary entries that contain your search word , courtesy of answers.com EXAMPLE dicfind word
16 uses - Created 2005-11-23 15:25:02 - Last used 2012-03-01 20:46:30 - Nominate - Description - http://www.answers.com/main/searchDSResults.jsp?st=%s&dsid=1555&dsname=Dictionary

srd
Searches the d20 (i.e. Dungeons and Dragons or D&D or DnD) Hypertext Searchable Database. Pretty awesome!
896 uses - Created 2005-11-23 00:32:26 - Last used 2022-12-15 03:59:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.d20srd.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?search_config=www_d20srd_org&query=%s

dilbert
Brings you to the Dilbert comic strip for the given day. The date must be given in the following format: YYYY-MM-DD. No spaces are allowed. For example, to see the strip from 11/12/2005, use 2005-11-12. ---------- Old implementation: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-%s.html
538 uses - Created 2005-11-22 19:23:16 - Last used 2026-02-05 12:29:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/%s/

wiktde
German wiktionary.
811 uses - Created 2005-11-22 19:19:54 - Last used 2025-05-12 23:46:23 - Nominate - Description - http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/%s

sgim
Google image search; use if "images.google.com" is blocked by your firewall at work, school, etc.
23 uses - Created 2005-11-22 19:11:58 - Last used 2024-10-13 02:22:30 - Nominate - Description - http://64.233.167.104/images?q=%s

wf

1098 uses - Created 2005-11-22 17:59:49 - Last used 2025-10-03 08:27:25 - Nominate - Description - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

JSexample
javascript!
20 uses - Created 2005-11-22 15:28:51 - Last used 2010-05-30 03:02:25 - Nominate - Description - yubnublet window.alert("YubNub now includes javascript");back()

chmap
SYNOPSIS Display the map of any location in Switzerland (using map.search.ch). SWITCHES -city (can also be a postcode) -street (with or without street number) EXAMPLES chmap takes you to the main page chmap -city genève displays a map of Geneva chmap -city 8000 displays a map of central Zürich chmap -city zürich -street plattenstr 47 indicates the location of the University of Zurich's English Department ;-)
84 uses - Created 2005-11-22 15:01:37 - Last used 2014-05-14 08:40:13 - Nominate - Description - http://map.search.ch/{ifThen -value1 ${city} -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then ${city}/${street}}[use %20 for spaces]

BlThis
Suscribe the current URL to Bloglines
15 uses - Created 2005-11-22 14:13:55 - Last used 2011-05-08 17:23:18 - Nominate - Description - yubnublet location.href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/"+[current URL];

DeliThis
Post to delecious from Yubnub! - the url is set automatically - you can specify the description with the -d parameter - you can specify notes with the -n parameter
80 uses - Created 2005-11-22 14:12:21 - Last used 2009-06-17 08:31:17 - Nominate - Description - yubnublet location.href="http://del.icio.us/post/?url="+[current URL]+"&title=${d}&notes=${n}";

GCacheThis
Get the cached copy of the current page from Google
18 uses - Created 2005-11-22 13:59:39 - Last used 2013-12-17 07:39:58 - Nominate - Description - yubnublet location.href="http://google.com/search?q=cache:"+[current URL];

SplitThis
Split the current page. To see the top and the bottom at the same time, for example. type "SplitThis -t v" for a vertical split
57 uses - Created 2005-11-22 13:56:27 - Last used 2011-12-12 06:16:39 - Nominate - Description - yubnublet location.href="http://yubnub.org/example/split?type=${t=h}&urls="+[current url]+"%20"+[current url]

TinyThis
create a tinyurl for the current url
18 uses - Created 2005-11-22 13:37:51 - Last used 2013-03-11 00:45:16 - Nominate - Description - yubnublet location.href="http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url="+[current URL];

Yubnublet (Golden Egg)
NAME Yubnublet - Creates a page with the javascript code that you pass to it So you can create bookmarklets in Yubnub SYNOPSIS Yubnublet <JS code> EXAMPLE Yubnublet window.alert("this is cool!") Yubnublet document.write("this is cool too!") Yubnublet for(i=0;i<10;i++)document.write("this is very cool!<br>") You can also include the current url in you code(this is the most common in a bookmarklet) the string [current URL] (note the brackets) will be replaced by the actual url for example: Yubnub…
1253 uses - Created 2005-11-22 13:27:47 - Last used 2025-07-30 15:18:08 - Description - http://saraswaticlasses.net/yubnub/yubnublet.php?code=%s

drugstore
drugstore.com search
198 uses - Created 2005-11-22 13:16:26 - Last used 2024-05-24 18:30:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.drugstore.com/search/search.asp?search=%s

tecmini
similar to tec (Golden Egg), But restricts results to 5 with clutter free layout. Searches blogs for the given keywords, courtesy of the Technorati weblog search engine.
16 uses - Created 2005-11-22 12:26:13 - Last used 2008-07-03 14:42:44 - Nominate - Description - http://technorati.com/mini/index.html?s=%s

whoisp
Liefert zu einer deutschen Telefonnummer den Namen (inverse Suche). Bsp: whoisp 1234 liefert z.B. Max Müller
178 uses - Created 2005-11-21 22:49:12 - Last used 2018-11-12 22:28:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.dasoertliche.de/DB4Web/es/oetb2suche/home.htm?kw_invers=%s&main=Antwort&AKTION=START_INVERS_SUCHE&SEITE=INVERSSUCHE_V&s=2&rg=1&taoid=&si=05112123422166705112123422168000&SKN=0&SEITE=INVERSSUCHE_V&AKTION=START_SUCHE

wikidex
(wiki)pedia (de)utsch e(x)tended. Search the wikipedia (German) via LuMriX.
55 uses - Created 2005-11-21 10:43:35 - Last used 2014-02-01 10:00:02 - Nominate - Description - http://wiki.lumrix.net/de/search.php?f=lumrix-search&x=&k=%s&submit=Suchen

csn
Search on CrackSpider.net
292 uses - Created 2005-11-21 10:36:45 - Last used 2015-11-08 12:20:52 - Nominate - Description - http://crackspider.net/search.shtml?q=%s

fv
feedvalidator.org This is a validator for syndicated feeds. It works with RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, and 2.0. It also validates Atom feeds.
277 uses - Created 2005-11-21 08:50:16 - Last used 2021-11-03 07:11:13 - Nominate - Description - http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=%s

ebaynegs
view negative/neutral ebay feedback of the given user id
11 uses - Created 2005-11-21 08:36:53 - Last used 2007-08-22 11:30:54 - Nominate - Description - http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=%s&Dirn=Received+by

foodinfo
Looks up the nutritional data for a given food at nutritiondata.com. (e.g., "foodinfo apple")
150 uses - Created 2005-11-21 04:54:40 - Last used 2008-12-05 22:19:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.nutritiondata.com/search.php?q=%s

dgdt
digg + del.icio.us + slashdot
767 uses - Created 2005-11-21 04:48:52 - Last used 2023-04-22 10:35:43 - Nominate - Description - http://diggdot.us/

tina
Goes to Tina Huggins's blog at fidlet.com
52 uses - Created 2005-11-21 04:26:54 - Last used 2021-01-30 02:08:59 - Nominate - Description - http://fidlet.com

addall
Used to search book prices by ISBN on addall
164 uses - Created 2005-11-21 02:51:55 - Last used 2011-05-02 22:13:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www3.addall.com/New/submitNew.cgi?query=%s&type=ISBN&location=10000&state=MA&dispCurr=USD

kudoz
Will search for a term in the KudoZ translation database (KudoZ Open Glossary, KudoZ archives and member glossaries). Takes three parameters: - from: language of the term to translate (3 first letters of national name of language, i.e. eng for English, deu for German etc.) - to: language to translate into (same as above) - bidir: bi-directional translation, defaults to 0 (= No)
46 uses - Created 2005-11-20 20:10:02 - Last used 2013-04-10 10:36:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.proz.com/?sp=asearch&term=%s&from=${from}&to=${to}&DICengines=KudoZ&MTengines=|&SEARCHengines=|&bidir=${bidir=1}&SE_lang=0

fuskaHabituales

15 uses - Created 2005-11-20 14:59:46 - Last used 2006-10-29 09:26:33 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tripod.lycos.es/build/webftp/popup_source.phtml?path=/Feeds/&filename=habituales.php

eudic
Will query the EuroDicAtom database for a translation of a term. Takes three parameters: -from (language of term queried, use international two letter code e.g. EN for English, FR for French etc.) -to (language of translation, same as from) -subject (defaults to ANY; you're on your own with EuroDicAtom's subject codes) Note that EuroDicAtom uses a URL encoding scheme not supported by YubNub, but will handle replacement characters (i.e. ae for ä, e for é etc.) gracefully.
15 uses - Created 2005-11-20 13:12:48 - Last used 2012-07-09 10:48:11 - Nominate - Description - http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller?CURRENTSCREEN=EXPERT2&query=%s&source=${from}&subject=${subject=S}&target=${to}&display_term=HITTERM&ACTION_SEARCHENTRIES.x=39&ACTION_SEARCHENTRIES.y=21[post]

gmusic
Google Web Search. Searches unprotected web directories for mp3 & wma files. This is taken from Google Tutor: http://www.googletutor.com/2005/04/15/voyeur-heaven/. All credit for this should go to it's inventor: http://www.googletutor.com/. I am not affiliated with http://www.googletutor.com/, however I saw this and became very interested and thought it would be excellent for yubnub.
1907 uses - Created 2005-11-19 23:02:18 - Last used 2018-10-08 09:23:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=-inurl%3A%28htm%7Chtml%7Cphp%29+intitle%3A%22index+of%22+%2B%22last+modified%22+%2B%22parent+directory%22+%2Bdescription+%2Bsize+%2B%28wma%7Cmp3%29+%22%s%22

lma
Homepage to the Live Music Archive
351 uses - Created 2005-11-19 19:52:08 - Last used 2025-08-06 05:26:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php

AlexaThis
show the Alexa Information for the current url
23 uses - Created 2005-11-19 17:52:10 - Last used 2012-02-14 04:29:33 - Nominate - Description - http://usuarios.lycos.es/fuskateka/YubNub/js.php?keep=open&code=if%28%21document.referrer%29%7bwindow.alert%28%22Sorry,%20You%20cant%20use%20this%20command%20from%20the%20same%20tab.%20You%20must%20configure%20your%20yubnub%20installation%20to%20open%20a%20new%20tab%22%29;if(history.length>1)%7bhistory.back()%7delse%7blocation.href=%22http://www.yubnub.org%22%7d%7delse%7blocation.href=%22http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=%26url=%22%2bdocument.referrer%7d

multibabel
What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages?
56 uses - Created 2005-11-19 16:07:16 - Last used 2012-09-01 16:22:59 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tashian.com/perl/multibabel.cgi?english_text=%s

agatra
save login and passwords online to log you in automatically!
132 uses - Created 2005-11-19 14:25:04 - Last used 2010-05-18 14:40:13 - Nominate - Description - https://www.agatra.com/

amluck
Amazon I'm Feeling Lucky! Combines Amazon with Google's I'm Feeling Lucky feature. In practice, goes directly to the product page of the most-likely item you want in Amazon without having to look through search results. Example: amluck Harry Potter Example: amluck Beatles
111 uses - Created 2005-11-18 23:59:41 - Last used 2009-04-28 08:57:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%s site:amazon.com

nuer
Search Northwestern University's Electronic Resources database. It is a list of publications Northwestern students have online access to. Usage: nuer [publication title] b.a.
60 uses - Created 2005-11-18 22:58:28 - Last used 2011-09-19 03:03:30 - Nominate - Description - http://er.library.northwestern.edu/brief.php?arg=%s&st=quick&search=GO

gopher
Surf Gopherspace using this Gopher-to-HTML proxy! Works with any browser. Example: gopher gopher.floodgap.com
78 uses - Created 2005-11-18 16:22:59 - Last used 2022-12-10 19:51:11 - Nominate - Description - http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher://%s

r4
Live Real Media Stream of BBC Radio 4(Talk) Opens in Real Player
241 uses - Created 2005-11-18 11:43:39 - Last used 2021-02-12 21:46:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2.ram

bspot
Type bspot <blogname> to redirect to http://<blogname>.blogspot.com
414 uses - Created 2005-11-17 23:38:58 - Last used 2025-08-19 12:36:25 - Nominate - Description - http://%s.blogspot.com

gooogle
This is not exactly what you expected...
174 uses - Created 2005-11-17 21:51:10 - Last used 2025-09-22 11:10:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bisonium.com/blog/images/Gates-Jugend.jpg

hubbabubba
See the turkey! Eat the turkey! FEAR THE TURKEY!!!
13 uses - Created 2005-11-17 21:46:28 - Last used 2012-01-16 11:00:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.co.mohave.az.us/WIC/images/turkey.jpg

myacu
Login for Abilene Christian University Students.
11 uses - Created 2005-11-17 21:38:07 - Last used 2006-01-17 09:20:22 - Nominate - Description - http://my.acu.edu/

wfb
bank wells fargo
698 uses - Created 2005-11-17 19:07:49 - Last used 2021-11-25 13:52:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wellsfargo.com

funnyvideos
dfa
15 uses - Created 2005-11-17 17:22:49 - Last used 2025-05-29 02:59:12 - Nominate - Description - http://chriscope-89-2.piczo.com

pypi
Search in the python module library (the "cheese shop") for the specified keywords ========== Old implementation: http://www.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=%s
4529 uses - Created 2005-11-17 13:32:28 - Last used 2026-01-18 08:44:47 - Nominate - Description - http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=%s&submit=search

cvs
Searches CVS for product.
596 uses - Created 2005-11-17 13:24:49 - Last used 2026-01-15 06:21:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.cvs.com/CVSApp/cvs/gateway/search?ActiveCat=499&Query=%s&SEARCH.x=0&SEARCH.y=0

adultpersonals
Lets go dating!
14 uses - Created 2005-11-17 11:00:58 - Last used 2009-09-12 18:45:51 - Nominate - Description - http://www.adultpersonalz.net

gende
(G)oogle (En)glish to (Ge)rman Translate an URL from English to German using Google. Author: Stefan Schwingeler
74 uses - Created 2005-11-17 10:35:54 - Last used 2014-10-31 07:27:24 - Nominate - Description - https://translate.google.com/translate?u=%s&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en&ie=UTF8

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