Yubnub/Application Commands

Application commands

These YubNub commands provide access to web applications or services other than search. It's a fine line, but in the Read/Write spectrum of the Web, this section should be devoted to commands that write.

Email & alias

send: send a message to an email address

shortcut: create an alias for an email address

checkshortcut: check to see if the shortcut name already exists

echoshortcut (or pas): view the value assigned to a shortcut alias

compose: open your default email client to send a message

sendmail: send a message with a subject to an email address

teacher: generate an email to send to a teacher at a particular school

readmail: read email from a temporary Mailinator address

10mail: get a temporary email address at 10minutemail

gma: open and search GMail

Blogs and RSS-related commands

bspot (bst or goblogger): open a web log at Blogger

lj: open a user's LiveJournal

postblogger: create a new post at Blogger

ljupdate: update your LiveJournal

readblogs: open a user's Bloglines feed

bl: goes to BlogLines subscribe page for the URI or feed

readrss: open a user's read collection at KickRSS

rssread: use Google Reader to view an RSS feed

grazr (or grz): use Grazr to view an RSS feed

stdRSS: standardize any RSS, ATOM, hAtom, XOXO Blog Format, or Active Channel feed

refilter: use ReFilter to filter an RSS feed

hyperss: generate music rss feed using Hype Machine MP3 search output; Example: hyperss lucinda williams

rss2pdf: use RSS 2 PDF convert an RSS feed to a PDF file

Bookmarks

delime: search your personal Delicious bookmarks

myweb: search your Yahoo bookmarks

gbm: search your Google bookmarks

Check spelling

\\: checks the spelling of the input of any Yubnub command; SYNTAX \\ [yubnub command] [your query to be spellchecked]; Example: \\ gim cmbodia

spllw: check spelling via FromRocks; Example: spllw confrence; returns conference

wp\: check spelling of a word or phrase and then search for it on the english wikipedia

spellchk (or spellcheck): check a words spelling using SpellCheck.net

Other utilities

arch (or wayback): try the Archive Waybackmachine

bark: play audio of a dog barking

clipboard: copy a text string to your clipboard; clipboard <string>; Example: clipboard I'm in your clipboard

convert: use Google to convert units

pay: using paypal

fedex: track information on a FedEx shipment

upc: look up information on a UPC code

ups: track information on UPS packages

barcd: generate a printable and scannable barcode

gmt: find local time (and date) for a given location using TimeAndDate

month: displays a calendar for the current month (U.S.) from TimeAndDate

uscal: display US monthly calendar(s) for specified month and year

gaspr: search for gas prices by zipcode using MSN Autos

sirc: Search IRC networks and channels

georest: generate an xml file with latitude and longitude from Geocoder.us; Example: georest 1 Beacon Street, Boston MA

open: open one or more websites in a new window or tab

resolution: display your screen resolution

timer: interactive online timer

wnt: create a note in webnote

note: add text to yahoo notes

ynotes: search Yahoo Notes

yab: search within Yahoo Address Book

visual: display a visual representation of Wordnet's resources

bchart: displays stock and mutual fund information from BarChart

login: returns an entry from BugMeNot

nyt: paste an article URI from the NYTimes website and get a weblog-safe URL that doesn't require registration; Example: nyt http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/opinion/13krugman.html

pacm: play a game of PacMan in you browser

ypt
play a game of Yahtzee

Image related

clusters: search Flicker tag clusters for images

delete: remove a tag from all your Flickr photos

f2pdf: convert Flickr images to PDF files

fspell: use Flickr to spell words

flintshow: search Flickr and display photos; combines "flint" & "flshow"; Example: flintshow yubnub

graybit (or grayscale): convert images on a web page to their grayscale equivalent using GrayBit

pixoh: open a URI in the online picture editor, Pixoh

rotate: rotate an image

thnl: web page thumbnail maker; Example: thnl http://www.google.com

websnap: instantly creates a thumbnail image of any web site using WebSnapr

Commands to calculate

dist: calculate the distance between two cities using Indo; Example: dist memphis tn ; baton rouge la

xe: convert from any currency to another

gray: use Google Calculator to do the arithmetic; Example: gray 0 255 100

yquotes: download stock quotes from Yahoo Finance site and open the .csv file in excel; Example: yquotes ACC.NS+CRBK.NS+INFY.NS+XYZ.NS

logs: calculate logarithms; natural logs by default

jscalc (or clc): use javascript as a calculator; Example 1: jscalc 5+6*7; Output: 47; Example 2: jscalc Math.sqrt(25); Output: 5; clc sqrt(25)

mate: evaluate mathematical expressions using the Mate online calculator by Tusanga

random: returns a random number from Random.org

Commands for use with mobile devices

figure: same as gim (Google Image), but optimized for mobile devices

gmobile (or mo): view any site without images, CSS or JavaScript using mobile device version of the page; different than the gproxy command that is used to bypass proxy

wpm (or wpContent): format Wikipedia contents for mobile phones

gxhtml: Google xhtml search page for mobiles

mobi: use Google to left justify and reformat a webpage to fit

ymini: access Yahoo Mail for mobile applications

tecmini: search blogs via Tecnorati

Commands for programmers

These may also prove useful to web designers and system administrators.

Code and Markup

code: search Koders for a codesnippet, function or class

html: use the SquareFree online HTML editor

html2text (or 2t): use Aaronsw's Python script to convert an HTML page to plain text

stripHTML: removes HTML

lynx: display source code for a web page

php: PHP function look-up

script: run javascript.

w3: use the W3C CSS Validation Service

w3c: use the W3C HTML validator

w3s: use Google to search the tutorials at W3Schools

vh: use SEOpen tool to view HTTP server headers for a given URL

ala: search A List Apart archives

go2: simple substitution for URL or address bar search results

Databases

mysql: search the MySQL reference manual

sqlsearch: search for SQL commands using Google

sqlfind: search for SQL syntax in .sql files

sqlformat: search for SQL commands using Google

sqlrw: use PeteFreitag's reserved word checker

Networking

alexa: display Alexa traffic rankings and other statistics

cip (or where): find where an IP address is located geographically.

netcraft: use NetCraft to see what a website is running

speed test: calculate the speed of the net connection

whois: check Whois Source for domain information

domainhelp: use NameBoy domain search

mydns: use DNSStuff to find your see your public IP address and information

glinux: Google special Linux search

psize: use the page size checker by Tasman-Webdesign

inspect: display info about a domain; Example: inspect yahoo.com

ip2location: reverse look-up of country, state, city, latitude, longitude and ISP

tracert: use Fifi's online traceroute service

cdns: use CheckDNS to tests DNS, WWW, and mail server info for a specified domain

rdns: do a reverse DNS Lookup on an IP address

dnstrace: DNS authentication trace via FreeDNS.Afraid

codd: search the CentralOps domain dossier

Commands for YubNub developers

Some commands are at best bookmarks or at worst spam. The commands listed here will help the would-be YubNub author stay clear of them and create something far more useful. Good commands are nominated to become Golden Eggs.

create (new or create2): test, document, and submit a new command

CommandExists: To know if the argument is a YubNub command

split (or splitv): display several webpages vertically in separate frames of same window or tab

splith: display several webpages horizontally in separate frames of same window or tab

two: view the results of two YubNub commands in the same window or tab

url: converts a YubNub command to a URL

man+: returns the YubNub manual page for a command if it exists, otherwise it returns the "create a command" page.

cmdData: Returns data from a command's man page.

similar: find YubNub commands similar to a given command or a given URL

kidsof: display a list of commands that use a given command

YubStats: Show some statistics of YubNub commands.

abv (or param): execute a YubNub command without having to type parameter names

gui: creates a web interface for a YubNub command

yubsource: shortcut to YubNub source code repository

urlet: create a simple bookmarklet from a YubNub command

mash: applies several commands to a single word and return them in a single window or tab

multi: run multiple commands and return them in a single window or tab

repeat: repeat user entered data a specified number of times

URL-related commands

gotourl: go to a url that you construct using multiple parameters

CommandUrl: scrapes a YubNub command's 'man' page and returns the command's URL

scrape: return a snippet of text parsed from a web page.; scrape -tokens TOKENS -dirs DIRECTIONS -url URL [options]

httpstrip: remove the "http://" and return the rest of the URL

URLde: decode a URL

URLen: encode a URL

>: > [Yubnub command] [query]; Yubnub generates a URL by interpreting the 1st param as a Yubnub command, it then extracts a domain name from that URL and uses it to configure a Google Feeling Lucky search for the 2nd param.

Array-related commands

explode: break a string up into an array

ridx: removes an index from an 'array'

numlist: return a list of numbers from 1 to the input value

cmd2array: Create an 'array' from the results of a YubNub command

cmd2rss: generates RSS from the results of a YubNub command

oconv: convert outline data from one format to another

eatFeed: Pull data out of a web feed (RSS,XML,etc).

isoh2rss: produce RSS feed from isohunt torrent search

foreach: loop through an 'array' and runs a YubNub command

json: return the text,result and url of a yubnub command in a json object

String-related commands

ifthen: evaluates a conditional statement and returns a value based on the result; Example: ifThen -value1 100 -value2 100 -test LESSEQUAL -then http://www.google.com -redirect true; Redirects to google site.

ift: compares two values and returns a value based on the result

ifMatch: match a regular expression pattern and returns a value based on the result

ifEqual: determine if two values are equal and returns a result accordingly

ifNotEqual: determine if two values are NOT equal and returns a result accordingly

isNumeric: determine if an argument is numeric

eop: compares two tokens in a string and returns the whole string (minus tokens) if not empty

strLength: returns the length of the inputted string

strFind: returns the position of the first occurrence of a string or character within another string

strreplace: replace all instances of a character or string found within another string

strrange: returns a sublist of words for a given phrase

trim: trim whitespace from both sides of a string

match: Run a RegExp pattern against a string

cmd2setup: Store page-scraping RegExps for use with cmd2* functions

match: match a regular expression

substring: extract part of a given string

regexp: uses PCRE via ReReplace.com to perform find/replace routines on text

strWordNumber: strWordNumber 2 Hello! how are you?; Returns second word “how” from the string.

recursiveLast: returns the last word in a phrase, using a silly recursion of browser redirects; Example: reursiveLast one two three; Returns "three"

%: returns a sublist of words for a given phrase

filterstring: performs the opposite of % by removing a word from a string based on the number given; Example: filterstring 1 Hello world!; Returns "world!"

var: set and get temporary variables

echovar: display longer variables with formatting