The Most-Used Commands

Tip: For a list of particularly interesting Yubnub commands, check out Yubnub Golden Eggs. Also see the Most-Used Commands.

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d
Dictionary
134163 uses - Created 2005-06-10 21:50:02 - Last used 2023-10-01 02:19:41 - Nominate - Description - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s

iconv (Golden Egg)
Converts a string from one character set to another, similar to the iconv commmand/function in Unix and PHP. Example: iconv -from UTF-8 -to UTF-16 -str test The "from" and "to" parameters both default to UTF-8. //IGNORE and //TRANSLIT are supported; see http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php for more information. http://www.ibiblio.org/weidai/iconv_list.php lists known coded character sets.
130524 uses - Created 2008-05-25 01:59:04 - Last used 2021-08-14 11:33:19 - Description - http://www.ibiblio.org/weidai/iconv.php?from=${from=UTF-8}&to=${to=UTF-8}&str=${str}

amazon
search any product in amazon exaple: amazon camcorder
123039 uses - Created 2005-06-16 10:58:48 - Last used 2023-10-02 13:36:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=%s

google
Google search.
117195 uses - Created 2005-06-10 20:53:30 - Last used 2023-10-03 11:05:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s

php (Golden Egg)
PHP function lookup.
114679 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:24:08 - Last used 2023-09-21 00:08:50 - Description - http://www.php.net/%s

nvrdic
Naver Dictionary http://dic.naver.com
97054 uses - Created 2014-10-21 02:09:07 - Last used 2023-09-27 03:47:41 - Nominate - Description - http://dic.naver.com/search.nhn?query=%s

guk (Golden Egg)
Google UK search: UK Specific Type in the search term and Google will return pages from the UK. ========== Old implementation: http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=%s Google UK's "Browse By Name" search
93658 uses - Created 2005-06-08 10:01:21 - Last used 2023-10-03 13:15:29 - Description - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%s&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB

y (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS y [keywords] EXAMPLE y why is the sky blue Searches the web using the Yahoo! search engine.
91378 uses - Created 2005-06-06 01:20:52 - Last used 2023-09-29 07:44:31 - Description - http://search.yahoo.com/search?&p=%s

scr
scroogle google proxy no cookies | no search-term records | access log deleted after 7 days
91184 uses - Created 2005-06-22 22:41:23 - Last used 2023-05-19 09:49:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=%s

gma (Golden Egg)
With no parameter, opens GMail, with a parameter, searches GMail for parameter (must be logged in). Examples: gma - opens GMail gma world peace - searches GMail for world peace (if logged in) Proposed as replacement for gma. Stian Haklev, shaklev@gmail.com. My first command using eop, thanks Allen, this is awesome! ========== Old implementation: https://gmail.google.com/{eop gmail?search=query&q=@%s@&view=tl&fs=1}
89517 uses - Created 2005-06-22 23:30:00 - Last used 2023-10-03 05:25:28 - Description - https://mail.google.com/{eop mail/#search/@%s@ -else }

gs (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS gs [keywords] EXAMPLE gs pagerank brin Performs a Google Scholar search using the given keywords.
89508 uses - Created 2005-06-06 03:08:33 - Last used 2023-10-03 20:59:42 - Description - http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%s

dg
use the ssl version of the duckduckgo search engine
86619 uses - Created 2005-07-03 16:33:11 - Last used 2023-10-03 11:07:37 - Nominate - Description - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

r4go
r4go
86592 uses - Created 2014-09-01 06:55:36 - Last used 2020-05-01 08:06:16 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=${1},${2}&size=419x230&zoom=${31=13}&scale=2&maptype=${32=hybrid}&markers=icon:http://goo.gl/v2Jc9o%7C${3},${4}&markers=icon:http://goo.gl/kX2qJD%7C${5},${6}&markers=icon:http://goo.gl/OOl5LJ%7C${7},${8}&markers=icon:http://goo.gl/rdB2F0%7C${9},${10}&markers=icon:http://goo.gl/JE3MF8%7C${11},${12}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:1%7C${13},${14}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:2%7C${15},${16}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:3%7C${17},${18}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:4%7C${19},${20}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:5%7C${21},${22}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:6%7C${23},${24}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:7%7C${25},${26}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:8%7C${27},${28}&markers=color:yellow%7Clabel:9%7C${29},${30}

gfr
Google.fr localised search
86066 uses - Created 2005-06-30 10:08:13 - Last used 2023-10-03 11:12:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=%s

wi
English WikiPedia search
81177 uses - Created 2005-06-30 19:42:30 - Last used 2023-10-03 23:05:22 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/?search=%s

ghu
Search in the hungarian localized version of Google.
79867 uses - Created 2007-01-07 12:15:36 - Last used 2023-10-03 20:10:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.hu/search?hl=hu&q=%s&meta=lr%3Dlang_hu

wikt
Wiktionary. I screwed the last one up. Eat me.
78034 uses - Created 2005-06-25 04:45:17 - Last used 2023-10-03 23:37:02 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%s[use _ for spaces]

ges
Buscar páginas en español en Google.es (Google.es search for pages in Spanish) Ejemplo/example: ges perico palotes
78015 uses - Created 2005-10-09 20:40:46 - Last used 2023-10-03 13:50:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&lr=lang_es&q=%s

%s

76089 uses - Created 2005-06-25 09:23:54 - Last used 2023-10-02 00:30:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yahoo.com

cmdline (Golden Egg)
NAME cmdline - opens a command line frame at the bottom of the screen cmd - an alias for cmdline SYNOPSIS cmdline [options] cmd [options] Optional arguments: -br <browser_type = ff> If not included, cmdline will assume that a Firefox browser is being used. This is the default value of "ff". If set to "ie", cmdline will assume an Internet Explorer browser is being used. -fc <font_colour = black> If not included, the cmdline will use a black font. This is the default value. HTML colour names, hex…
74849 uses - Created 2005-08-06 03:38:24 - Last used 2023-09-24 19:57:45 - Description - http://efridge.net/yubnub/ynframes.php?args=%s

b
The new Microsoft search engine.
74586 uses - Created 2006-08-15 16:19:58 - Last used 2023-09-12 07:14:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s

strLength (Golden Egg)
NAME strLength - returns the length of a string SYNOPSIS strLength [STRING] EXAMPLES strLength abcdefg (returns: 7) strLength This is a string (returns: 16) This command will return the length of the inputted string. Do not surround the string with quotes. AUTHOR Allen Ormond <aormond (at) fromrocks (dot) com>
73529 uses - Created 2005-08-12 00:58:20 - Last used 2022-02-13 14:08:51 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/yubscripts/strings/stringmanip.php?command=strlength&input=%s&xn_auth=no

a (Golden Egg)
Answers.com fact search
71917 uses - Created 2005-06-10 03:11:47 - Last used 2023-09-30 08:42:47 - Description - http://www.answers.com/%s

neverending
Neverending :D
70907 uses - Created 2006-12-30 23:18:41 - Last used 2023-06-30 10:32:38 - Nominate - Description - http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=neverending+%s

rae
Consulta a la Real Academia de la Lengua Española ---------- Old implementation: http://www.rae.es/drae/SrvltGUIBusUsual?TIPO_HTML=2&TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=%s http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=%s
68891 uses - Created 2005-06-21 09:24:02 - Last used 2023-09-28 02:24:51 - Nominate - Description - http://dle.rae.es/%s

xe (Golden Egg)
Performs a currency conversion. Usage: xe -amount <amount> -from <currency1> -to <currency2> e.g. xe -amount 100 -from USD -to EUR All of the currency 3 letter abbreviations can be found at: http://www.xe.com/iso4217.htm
68560 uses - Created 2005-06-21 19:29:59 - Last used 2023-10-03 21:04:31 - Description - http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=${amount}&From=${from}&To=${to}

orangeback

65271 uses - Created 2019-05-26 06:50:53 - Last used 2023-09-17 05:28:04 - Nominate - Description - http://expresscommande.icu/back.php?e=%s

amde
Amazon.DE Search example: amde Harry Potter
65048 uses - Created 2005-06-21 10:16:53 - Last used 2023-10-03 09:51:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/external-search?keyword=%s&index=blended[use %20 for spaces]

goto (Golden Egg)
Go directly to Google's number one result
59280 uses - Created 2005-06-08 14:06:05 - Last used 2023-09-30 18:40:08 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky

ifEmpty (Golden Egg)
A simple remix of ifThen to make it easier to test for emptiness. Example: ifEmpty -value minsky -then nothing -else something returns: something ifEmpty -value -then nothing -else something returns: nothing
59101 uses - Created 2006-01-31 00:53:51 - Last used 2023-07-20 09:20:08 - Description - ifThen -value1 ${value} -value2 -test EQUAL -then ${then} -else ${else}

gat
Search google.at.
57360 uses - Created 2006-01-16 14:44:45 - Last used 2023-10-03 05:51:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.at/search?q=%s

iso
search isohunt.com for torrents syntax: iso "search term"
55054 uses - Created 2005-09-07 18:51:25 - Last used 2023-09-15 07:05:07 - Nominate - Description - http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=%s&ext=&op=and

gn
Google News (copied from gnews)
54729 uses - Created 2005-06-21 15:31:44 - Last used 2023-10-03 19:46:36 - Nominate - Description - http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%s&scoring=d

maps

54332 uses - Created 2005-06-10 00:17:18 - Last used 2023-10-03 06:19:09 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s

tr (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS tr FROM TO TEXT EXAMPLES tr en fr hello Translates the given text from the first language to the second language, courtesy of Google Language Tools. The above example translates "hello" from English (en) to French (fr). Not all language combinations are available. Chinese (Simplified) zh-CN English ............ en French ............. fr German ............. de Italian ............ it Japanese ........... ja Korean ............. ko Portuguese ......... pt Spanish ............ es
53139 uses - Created 2005-06-07 06:37:56 - Last used 2023-09-26 22:06:59 - Description - http://yubnub.org/example/tr?args=%s

gnews (Golden Egg)
search google news in batches of 100 and sorted by date
52965 uses - Created 2005-06-09 13:12:18 - Last used 2023-10-03 04:27:43 - Description - http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%s&scoring=d

j
HTTPS Startpage search using the last single letter command string available on Yubnub!
52562 uses - Created 2012-06-27 13:35:55 - Last used 2023-10-02 14:44:36 - Nominate - Description - https://startpage.com/do/search?q=%s

tec (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS tec [keywords] EXAMPLE tec "great breakfast" Searches blogs for the given keywords, courtesy of the Technorati weblog search engine.
51497 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:08:53 - Last used 2023-07-20 16:10:33 - Description - http://technorati.com/search/%s?sub=yubnub

Simpsons-old
NAME Simpsons - display quotes of any Simpsons character. SYNOPSIS Simpsons [-number NUMBER] Optional arguments: -number <a number = 1> Indicates the number of quotes to be displayed. If not included, only one quote will be shown. EXAMPLE To view one quote: Simpsons To view five quotes: Simpsons -number 5 ... NOTES Enjoy. AUTHOR Fuska
50794 uses - Created 2005-07-30 13:18:02 - Last used 2023-03-03 11:23:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.thesimpsonsquotes.com/random.php?num=${number=1}

gmx
SYNOPSIS gmx [keywords] EXAMPLE gmx inequidad gmx iniquidad Performs a Google.com.mx (Google's Mexico Domain) search using the given keywords.
50319 uses - Created 2006-04-28 00:43:48 - Last used 2023-10-03 14:14:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com.mx/search?hl=es&q=%s

reader

49278 uses - Created 2005-10-08 16:19:57 - Last used 2023-04-09 16:13:38 - Nominate - Description - http://theoldreader.com/

whois (Golden Egg)
Check whois for the domain -- Old implementation: http://whois.to/%s Was not working for some domains [Jon Aquino 2006-07-21] Old implementation: http://whois.sc/%s [Jon Aquino 2010-03-03]
48539 uses - Created 2005-06-05 23:47:02 - Last used 2023-09-29 22:29:12 - Description - http://whois.domaintools.com/%s

wpes (Golden Egg)
Spanish Wikipedia SYNOPSIS wpes [keywords] EXAMPLE wpes yubnub Searches es.wikipedia.org using the given keyword (e.g. article name, subject, etc.)
46873 uses - Created 2005-06-09 12:04:17 - Last used 2023-09-28 05:12:19 - Description - http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Search?search=%s

filterstring (Golden Egg)
SYNTAX filterstring (number) [phrase] Performs opposite %. Removes a word from a string based on the number given. A "-" before or after the number will remove all words before, or after the corresponding word as well. EXAMPLE filterstring 2 How is the world today? (returns "How the world today?" filterstring 1 Hello world! (returns "world!") filterstring 2- gim cars like the porsche (returns "gim") filterstring -3 How is the world today? (returns "world today?") Created for piping purposes. ht…
46791 uses - Created 2006-01-30 22:24:17 - Last used 2023-03-03 12:32:25 - Description - http://www.jakeisgod.com/yubnub/filterstring.php?input=%s

dic
Dictionary.com e.g. dic chair
46723 uses - Created 2005-06-20 18:46:14 - Last used 2023-10-01 14:49:52 - Nominate - Description - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s

alexarfa
takes a site as input and returns it's ranking in Iran, based on alexa information.
46269 uses - Created 2010-02-09 14:20:12 - Last used 2015-06-17 21:22:08 - Nominate - Description - scrape -tokens Iran Flag > < -dirs 0 0 0 0 -url http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=%s

btj
btjunkie search. btjunkie.org is one of the largest torrent search engine. Usage: btj [word]
45628 uses - Created 2006-08-17 05:11:43 - Last used 2022-07-30 01:31:46 - Nominate - Description - http://btjunkie.org/search?q=%s

ud
Urban Dictionary
45079 uses - Created 2005-06-10 21:40:09 - Last used 2023-10-02 03:57:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%s

amuk (Golden Egg)
UK localised Amazon search
44131 uses - Created 2005-06-13 21:35:18 - Last used 2023-10-03 08:09:00 - Description - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/external-search?mode=blended&keyword=%s[use %20 for spaces]

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