The Most-Used Commands

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SYNOPSIS < [Yubnub command|URL] [query, optional] -pool [number, optional, default is 7] EXAMPLES < cnn Takes you to http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/ < dilbert Takes you to Doonesbury.com < britannica.com thermodynamics Takes you to the Infoplease article for Thermodynamics. < britannica.com thermodynamics -pool 20 Takes you to the Wikipedia article for Thermodynamics. Pool is the number of related websites among which to search, the search pool, and so, the higher the number, the lower the ave…
342 uses - Created 2006-01-31 10:13:36 - Last used 2026-05-01 22:15:58 - Nominate - Description - http://eemadges.com/rel?url={url {% 1 %s}}&query={% 2- %s}&pool=${pool=7}&md=gfl[no url encoding]

punchin

342 uses - Created 2007-12-12 22:39:40 - Last used 2010-06-23 17:53:32 - Nominate - Description - http://pgcintra/C7/C14/ElectronicTimeSheetPort/default.aspx

gbt
Google bookmarks tag search.
341 uses - Created 2007-02-07 18:54:01 - Last used 2022-09-02 05:54:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/bookmarks/lookup?q=label:%s

mbtv

341 uses - Created 2009-08-20 13:21:05 - Last used 2009-10-16 23:50:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.blogtv.com/MyBlogTv

ihf
Do not give up on Isohunt yet. You can still access full version using this command
341 uses - Created 2010-04-13 03:54:28 - Last used 2017-07-31 00:22:23 - Nominate - Description - http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=%s

afrinic
whois query to afrinic (Africa Regional Internet Registry) ~jbrown
341 uses - Created 2008-03-27 03:19:04 - Last used 2024-01-28 13:52:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois?%s

litstory2

341 uses - Created 2008-09-25 22:13:50 - Last used 2014-02-08 20:11:02 - Nominate - Description - http://search.literotica.com/search.php?type=story&q=%s&db=text&sort=vote&sort_order=desc&hot=on

ts
Search the complete Twitter archive @nph
341 uses - Created 2014-11-20 11:52:15 - Last used 2026-03-10 20:04:13 - Nominate - Description - https://twitter.com/search?q=%s

ah
Simple search command for https://artifacthub.io/ Packages are sort by relevance (default) To find prometheus helm chars, just type: ah prometheus
341 uses - Created 2023-03-28 00:17:56 - Last used 2026-05-09 08:01:58 - Nominate - Description - https://artifacthub.io/packages/search?ts_query_web=%s&sort=relevance&page=1

wri
Writely - the web-based word processor. Writely allows you to edit documents online with whomever you choose, and then publish and post them online.
341 uses - Created 2005-09-18 22:13:27 - Last used 2013-12-04 07:01:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.writely.com/

yjweather
Yahoo!JAPAN Weather Example: yjweather <postal_code>
341 uses - Created 2006-04-14 07:45:53 - Last used 2011-09-05 04:33:55 - Nominate - Description - http://search.weather.yahoo.co.jp/bin/search?pref=all&p=%s

abebooks
Abebooks Used Book Search. To search using a simple keyword, just type: abebooks plumbing To search for a specific author or title, type: abebooks -a tolstoy -t anna karenina Optional switches: -a author (eg. tolstoy, william shakespeare) -t title (eg. macbeth, microserfs)
341 uses - Created 2005-06-25 10:51:09 - Last used 2026-01-02 12:08:55 - Nominate - Description - http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=%s&an=${a}&tn=${t}

jo
jo = jerk off This is a search script for a masturbation fantasy on the asstr.org website.
340 uses - Created 2005-12-22 04:09:28 - Last used 2025-02-04 04:12:11 - Nominate - Description - http://search.asstr.org/submitSearch.php?search=%s

bass
Find bass tabs example: bass breaking benjamin will return tabs from bassmasta.net for breaking benjamin
340 uses - Created 2006-06-27 04:47:01 - Last used 2026-01-29 02:18:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bassmasta.net/scripts/search.php?search=%s

nlen
Translate fron NL to EN with Interglot
340 uses - Created 2006-10-13 09:29:49 - Last used 2023-10-18 02:01:49 - Nominate - Description - http://interglot.com/interglotresult.php?&SrcLang=1&DstLang=2&word=%s

torrr
Perfomr torrent searches on speckly.com
340 uses - Created 2008-07-17 16:18:55 - Last used 2017-08-23 09:03:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.speckly.com/s?q=%s&f=exact

dogibm
Search on the IBM dogear TAP (http://dogear.tap.ibm.com). It only works within IBM's Intranet. For non-IBM Employees, this yubnub command is not accessible. Works with the new implementation. dibm and d2ibm are now deprecated.
340 uses - Created 2008-08-27 10:22:57 - Last used 2012-10-19 17:44:30 - Nominate - Description - http://dogear.tap.ibm.com/html?search=%s&lang=en

ustg
Search University of St. Thomas's google search appliance for specified terms. ========== Old implementation: http://search/search?q=%s&btnG=Google+Search&access=p&entqr=0&ud=1&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&site=default_collection
340 uses - Created 2007-05-10 17:04:15 - Last used 2015-07-18 15:41:16 - Nominate - Description - http://search.stthomas.edu/search?q=%s&btnG=Google+Search&access=p&entqr=0&output=xml_no_dtd&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&client=default_frontend&ud=1&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&site=default_collection

ecw
Environment Canada Weather report. http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca -p for lower case province abbreviation (default 'on') -c for city number (default 82) values for these parameters can be found by visiting http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca and then browsing to the city you are interested in and then getting the values from the url... /city/pages/on-82_metric_e.html would be -p on -c 82 this happens to be the default which is Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
340 uses - Created 2007-07-10 03:23:52 - Last used 2022-11-05 10:59:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/${p=on}-${c=82}_metric_e.html

ì†Œ
search at www.naver.com ì†Œ is a typo for nv in korean sebulsik keyboard.
340 uses - Created 2007-11-03 14:45:39 - Last used 2012-01-24 00:52:37 - Nominate - Description - http://search.naver.com/search.naver?where=nexearch&query=%s&x=0&y=0&frm=t1

dapi
Drupal API Search: dapi searches the Drupal.org API reference for the function name following the command. Example: dapi base_path Returns the documentation page for Drupal's base_path() function. (currently searches the Drupal 5.x API)
340 uses - Created 2008-01-11 22:05:11 - Last used 2012-02-08 21:19:11 - Nominate - Description - http://api.drupal.org/api/function/%s/5

finviz
Financial Virtualization
340 uses - Created 2009-01-13 02:16:40 - Last used 2024-03-28 09:22:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=%s

sfspam
Check IP and e-mail addresses in the Stop Forum Spam database. You can check many members at one time. Example: sfspam membername@baddomain.com IP.IP.IP.IP
339 uses - Created 2009-03-10 16:52:02 - Last used 2014-08-02 18:28:34 - Nominate - Description - echo <script>b='%s';var c = b.split(/ /);var s='<a href=http://www.stopforumspam.com/search?q=';for(i = 0; i < c.length; i++)document.write(s+c[i]+">"+c[i]+"</a><br>");</script>

bstones
Search www.brokenstones.me for mac torrents!
339 uses - Created 2009-08-27 18:30:09 - Last used 2013-03-18 00:20:30 - Nominate - Description - http://brokenstones.me/browse.php?searchtitle=0&include=0&search=%s

lht
Lifehacker Tag Search. lht <tag>.
339 uses - Created 2006-10-09 15:58:36 - Last used 2016-07-22 06:13:42 - Nominate - Description - http://lifehacker.com/software/%s/

words
Goes to thesaurus.com
339 uses - Created 2006-06-28 17:24:13 - Last used 2025-02-27 14:22:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/%s

!bm
Create a bookmark using YubNub aliases (http://www.jjefferydesign.com/aliases/ ) This can be used if you want to save URLs using your YubNub Aliases account. The default will save a URL with the term "bookmark" and a timestamp. If a term other than "bookmark" is preferred, use the "-tag" switch at the end. usage: !bm [url] -tag [tag (optional)] examples: !bm http://www.yubnub.org <-- adds bookmark[timestamp] http://www.yubnub.org to your alias account. !bm http://www.yahoo.org -tag search <-- a…
339 uses - Created 2006-02-06 20:27:15 - Last used 2016-08-20 23:16:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.jakeisgod.com/yubnub/aliases/jobactions.cfm?action=set&cmd=${tag=bookmark}{date -format H.M.S-m.d.y}&ucmd=%s[no url encoding]

gogle
El blog de noticias Tekis
339 uses - Created 2006-04-03 05:12:03 - Last used 2026-03-31 08:26:55 - Nominate - Description - http://www.notitek.com.ar

gcase2
A better version of gcase, where the search query passed to google scholar is not literal.
339 uses - Created 2011-02-12 03:06:41 - Last used 2013-03-27 18:25:00 - Nominate - Description - http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%s&as_sdt=2,44&as_ylo=&as_vis=0&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

dutch
Translates english to dutch
338 uses - Created 2007-07-12 16:22:38 - Last used 2026-05-31 14:17:25 - Nominate - Description - http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?lp=en_nl&trtext=%s

wib
Another Wikibooks search, this time circumventing the search form.
338 uses - Created 2006-02-21 21:17:22 - Last used 2020-03-26 07:16:52 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/%s[use _ for spaces]

virus
Symantec Virus Search. Search for Virus information on Symantec's Security Response site. Example: virus SQL Slammer
338 uses - Created 2005-06-20 21:47:23 - Last used 2026-01-05 01:54:57 - Nominate - Description - http://search.symantec.com/custom/us/query.html?lk=1&rf=0&qt=%s&col=us+kb

NingView
NAME NingView - View source of a Ning app. SYNOPSIS NingView [NING APP NAME] EXAMPLES NingView yubscripts
338 uses - Created 2006-05-01 17:28:58 - Last used 2008-09-27 06:01:14 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ning.com/view-source.html?appUrl=%s

star

338 uses - Created 2005-06-10 18:44:23 - Last used 2020-11-03 10:48:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.starwars.com

testing
spam
338 uses - Created 2005-06-13 10:06:53 - Last used 2026-07-09 09:39:22 - Nominate - Description - http://thisisspam

lexi
Lexilogo, French best dictionnary. Pour avoir la définition de "medium", type "lexi medium"
337 uses - Created 2007-05-19 13:18:45 - Last used 2026-07-08 14:43:16 - Nominate - Description - http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/fast.exe?mot=%s

vb
Cerca su Voipblog.it
337 uses - Created 2007-02-07 14:35:07 - Last used 2023-10-13 06:05:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.voipblog.it/?s=%s

lmaps
Windows Live Maps OR livemaps, Microsoft's online map webtool There are two ways of specifying a location Lat/Lon method: livemaps -lat <latitude> -lon <longitude> Toponym method: livemaps <location> Additional Parameters: -z : zoom from 1 (farther) to 19 (nearer) -s : style: r = roadmap (default) o = bird's eye view a = aerial EXAMPLES lmaps New York -s o -z 16 : Birds Eye view of New York lmaps -lat 43.35 -lon -3.2 -z 5 : A road map at 43 N 3.2 W lmaps -lat {b60 48 -m 51 -s 30.70} -lon {b60 2…
337 uses - Created 2008-05-02 19:26:25 - Last used 2014-05-06 06:14:05 - Nominate - Description - {ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test EQUAL -then http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=${lat=0}~${lon=0}&style=${s=r}&lvl=${z=11} -else http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?where1=%s&lvl=${z=11}&style=${s=r}}

tcsys
looking for Text-StringOrder inside the TC-Checker "SYSINFO"
336 uses - Created 2008-06-30 14:22:23 - Last used 2013-10-17 07:48:41 - Nominate - Description - https://topcontrol.is-asp.com/status_suche.html?min_descr_value=&type=&max_descr_value=&quiet_mode=0&min_state=&max_state=&descr_search=%s&host=&name_searchstring=sysinfo&reload=&min_priority=&max_priority=&min_category=&max_category=&min_date=DD.MM.YY+HH%3AMM&max_date=DD.MM.YY+HH%3AMM&ignore=1&customer_ids=&id=

revph
if you need to search multiple sites reverse phone number websites this queries *google *yahoo *anywho *whitepages example: revph 5558675309
336 uses - Created 2008-09-23 17:59:49 - Last used 2022-11-28 13:52:16 - Nominate - Description - split {url phone %s} {url g %s} {url awrl %s} {url y %s}

sdv
Search in Orthonet, a french dictionary
336 uses - Created 2007-03-15 08:31:26 - Last used 2020-10-13 00:42:18 - Nominate - Description - http://orthonet.sdv.fr/php/rech_mot.php?mot=%s

kjvylt
Parallel Bible Translation Search of christnotes.org, using the King James Version and Young's Literal Translation. Example: "kjvylt gen 1".
336 uses - Created 2009-06-15 15:31:40 - Last used 2011-07-04 09:07:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?passage=%s&ver=kjv&ver=ylt&verse_format=1&mtlayout=1

ocr

336 uses - Created 2021-05-28 18:18:49 - Last used 2026-05-08 07:55:12 - Nominate - Description - https://translate.yandex.com/?lang=zh-en

debunstable
Search+Debian+pacakges+in+the+unstable+dist.
336 uses - Created 2005-07-30 20:47:13 - Last used 2008-06-10 17:09:47 - Nominate - Description - http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=%s&searchon=names&subword=1&version=unstable&release=all

jd4
Search Java 1.4.2 api. Takes you to the first result from google.
336 uses - Created 2005-11-04 03:32:50 - Last used 2010-12-02 04:19:43 - Nominate - Description - gfl %s+site:java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api

ynews
search yahoo news e.g. ynews Iraq
336 uses - Created 2005-06-20 19:36:22 - Last used 2023-04-04 16:03:45 - Nominate - Description - http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=%s

atwi
Images from all the web, I like it because I get linked directly to _THE_ images, no HTML files to run through
335 uses - Created 2005-06-20 18:25:13 - Last used 2011-06-27 19:18:19 - Nominate - Description - http://alltheweb.com/search?cat=img&cs=iso88591&q=%s&rys=0&itag=crv

80 (Golden Egg)
80s pop/rock streaming audio, courtesy of Shoutcast. Try it on your mobile device!
335 uses - Created 2005-07-11 04:48:35 - Last used 2024-08-11 11:14:40 - Description - http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=1694&file=filename.pls

rabo
Redirects to Rabobank Internetbankieren
335 uses - Created 2006-02-20 06:56:02 - Last used 2026-06-04 11:21:12 - Nominate - Description - https://bankieren.rabobank.nl/mijnbankzaken

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