Yubnub

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Introduction

What is YubNub?

YubNub is a web-based command line that allows users to create commands and quickly access many internet services. This command line can be integrated into web browsers such as FireFox, IE, Opera, Safari, and even those on the BlackBerry and PSP. Jump right in and try some of the commands you find here at http://www.yubnub.org/.

About this WikiBook

While the WikiBook of YubNub commands provides an overview of what you can do with YubNub, it is by no means comprehensive. The purpose here is to help the reader become familiar with the more popular commands and discover how using YubNub can improve the web browsing experience. The text is divided into sections with the first part focusing on those commands commonly used to query search engines. The latter part is dedicated to those YubNub commands for more specific applications. The Appendix contains commentary, lists of commands sorted by domain (i.e. Google, Yahoo, etc.) and references to the source code.

Queries

YubNub provides a few commands just to locate commands and their documentation. Readers of this Wikibook can learn more using the following commands:

ls: search for commands submitted to YubNub; list commands in reverse chronological order; Example: ls yahoo

man: search for manual documenting a particular command; Example: man gim

ge: search among recommended commands or Golden Eggs; Example: ge livejournal

Utilities

These commands start small programs for YubNub users.

cmdline (or cmd): opens frame with YubNub command line (type "brk" or "breakout" command to exit)

sidenub: initialize SideNub, an experimental YubNub sidebar

Search Related Commands

YubNub users save a step or two when it comes to searching the World Wide Web. By using YubNub commands, they no longer have to go to a particular search page to type in and submit their queries.

Search engine queries

A lot of search sites do not crawl the web themselves, but use an index from another search engine. The following YubNub commands provide quick access to those search engines:

g (google or gg): search using Google

y: search Yahoo

ask: search with Ask

a9: search A9

alta: search Altavista

wlive: search Live

Special options

gfl (goto or ifl): search Google using the "I Feel Lucky" feature

ggn (g2 or g9): search Google in the "Browse by Name" mode, a hybrid between "I Feel Lucky" and a standard search

ggs: use Google suggest as you type, now the default for a standard Google search.

superg: does most Google searches in one command

ysite (or explore): displays the pages indexed by Yahoo for the given site

ylinks: displays the links to a site according to Yahoo's index

Popular types of search

These include other portals to search engines as well as searching for specific types of information.

all (or atw): search Alltheweb

bgo: search (maybe win) using Blingo

brain: search BrainBoost

dp: Dogpile search

mss: Microsoft MSN Search

sema: SearchMash

twin: search via Twingine

Image search

gim: search Google for images

yim (or yimages): find Yahoo images

limg: search Live for images

flcc: search Flickr for photos published with a Creative Commons (CC) license

mashim: search images using a mash-up of Google, Yahoo, and Flickr

Map search

gmaps (gm or gm2): search maps provided at Google

ymaps: search maps at Yahoo

geocode: use Geocoder to return the latitude & longitude for an address

topoz: use zip code to find a topographic map at Trails

Word search

This category includes online dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus search.

= (define, meaning, or equals): search for a word's meaning at Dictionary

dict: search for definitions at Dict.org

fdt: search TheFreeDictionary

mw (webster): search the Merriam-Webster database

speak: Speaks a single word, via the Merriam-Webster dictionary's audio files

cambridge: Cambridge dictionary lookup

olrd (onelook or ol): search OneLook Reverse Dictionary

wordref: consult WordReference

ona: search OneAcross dictionary

dfn: define query Google

wikis (wiki or wp): search Wikipedia

=?: search the Thesaurus

rwords: see relationship between words using Lexical FreeNet

bartleby: search for references in great books online at Bartleby

thesaurus: search the Merriam-Webster thesaurus

gdef (gdefine or gdeff): performs a Google definition search

wnet: searches online dictionaries using die.net

a (answer or ans): searches Answers

File search

hype: search for audio tracks

download: search for files at Download

News search

gnews (or gnws): search news at Google

ynews (or xny): search news at Yahoo

Blog search

tec (or tecn): search Technorati

ljseek: search LiveJournal entries

spht: search for blog posts related to a particular URL

Weather search

w (or weather): search for local weather information at Weather

wu: use zip code to search WeatherUnderground

fc: use zip code to find forcast using AccuWeather

yweather (or yw): find weather info from Yahoo

Directory search

c411phone: do a reverse phone search using Canada411 directory

phone: search WhitePages residential telephone listings

ypeople: find people by surname

zab: use Zabasearch to find people

Book search

am (amazon or ama): search for books at Amazon

asinlookup: look up the ASIN number for an Amazon item, given the items URL

bi: search Wikipedia using the ISBN number

freebook: title word search for books available at Penn's online book page; Example: freebook beagle

freebook-author: author search for books available at Penn's online book page

nypl: search the New York Public Library

sprk: search for SparkNotes guides

sworldcat: worldcat -isbn {scrapeisbn1 ${kw}} -where ${where=19460}; Mashes up worldcatlibraries.org and ISBNdb.com

Comics search

cmc: search Comics

cmcx: search GoComics

dilbert: read the Dilbert comic strip

garfield: read the Garfiled comic strip

Movie search

imdb: search the International Movie Database

imdbq (or moviequote): search for movie quotes using IMDB

nytmovies: search through the New York Times movie reviews

Music search

sing: find a song with Sing365

tabs: 911tabs meta-search tabs for a song

discogs: search the Discogs database of music information

musipedia: search Musipedia.org for music by specifying if the notes goes up, down or repeats using a series of u's, d's and r's as arguments, where u=up, d=down and r=repeat; Example: musipedia rrrudrrrrrrrrrdrrrr Result (among others): Lennon-McCartney (Beatles): Yellow Submarine (chorus)

Television

ontv: search tv listings by zipcode and select a local provider

tvg: search for the show title via TV Guide

tv.com: TV search

bbctv: search for BBC radio and television programs

mtvsearch: search MTV

simpsons: read what TheSimpsonsQuotes serves up

Subject search

Aviation

airport: find airport information using World-Airport-Codes

airportinfo: view pilot aviation information from FlightAware

metar: lookup METAR observiations via the National Weather Service

taf: get Terminal Aerodrome Forcast for any ICAO station

avtrack: track aircraft in real-time using Flight Aware

Genealogy

roots: search genealogy in the RootsWeb database.

Geography

cia: search the CIA's world factbook for information on different nations

nme: search for information on a country via NationMaster

Health

gweecal: check calories at The Daily Plate

clab: search using the Calorie Counter at CalorieLab

Mathematics

math (or mathworld): search MathWorld

mathlinks (or mth): search the MathLinks forum

mathdef: Lucky Google search of the Springer Online Encyclopedia of Mathematics

Physics

apsgoto: search Reviews of Modern Physics

hsw: search on How Stuff Works

jphys (or iop): search and IOP journal

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

Appendix

*nix Comparison

This comparison is focuses more on the user experience and less on the actual implementation of commands. Sure there are differences, but if you have used Surfraw then you know that it's not much of a stretch.

cd: *nix command to change directory; YubNub command to search CDBaby.com

date: *nix command shows date and time; YubNub command just shows date

echo: *nix and YubNub command will output a line of text

exit: *nix command will exit a shell or close an xterm window; YubNub command can be use to close the window

get: *nix command to download a file via ftp (for http see wget); YubNub command can be used to go to a url.

ls: *nix command lists the contents of the current directory; YubNub command list the commands submitted to YubNub.org

home: *nix env variable for home directory (e.g. echo $HOME); YubNub command takes you to http://yubnub.org

lynx: *nix text based web browser application; YubNub command to view html source of web page

man: both *nix and YubNub commands will display see the man page for a particular command

Google Commands

google

ganswers

gc

gearth

gloc

glocal

glog

gma

gm

gmaps

gmp3

gmini

gvideo

ghistory

autotr

gim

gimage

gimages

gima

>&: finds you all the images on a given site

gis

gic

grel

gmails

glabel

scholar

gnews

gn

gtalk

gsite

rtfm

gprint

gdef

gsearchblog

ggroups

yubgrub

linksto

gsuggest

ggs

gcache

gproxy: Use Google translator service (language tools) as a proxy to bypass the restriction!

gmapi

mp3find

gfi (or quo)

gtrend

gnote

gfin

gstock

gexcel

gcalendar

luckygim

gbk

gbk+

gbkl

gmapuk

googlereader

gcds (or gcod)

docs

gdox

gsheet

Yahoo Commands

yahoo

ymovies

yahoomusic

ysc

note

ynote

ynotes

yfeed

ypost

ygroup

yprofile

ymails

yab

yrss

yweather

yahoovideo

yahoostock

yquotes (or qt)

ysmb

yshop

yshopping

ypeople

ysite

ylinks

ynews

yahooradio

ys

myweb

yahoos

yim

yimages

ymini

ypool

ymh

yhf

Delicious Commands

deli (delicious, tag): search for tags on Del.icio.us

delime

delu

dpop: find recently popular links from Delicious

dss

du

ds

deliu

desa: save a URI to your Delicious account

delurl

del2: access Delicious functions with this one command

d/

delipop

delrank

deliall

delplaymp3

mdeli

podel

dluc

dpost

delhos

bkm

dpopl

delback

delpopm

DeliThis

mydeli

deliut

descriptious

delutag

delfind

depost

desave

delu

diu

delhot

mydel

delmag

delpost

dpopf

desapr

deltag

desav

tasty

del.quick.bookmarklets

dutag

delpl

deluser

dpop>

delwork

delrand

del>

LiveJournal Commands

lj

ljf

ljupdate

friends

ljinfo

livejournal

ljrandom

lji

newlj

ljfriends

mylj

ljup

Flickr commands

flickr

flk

fspell

flcc

flku

interestingness

flshow

fgal

fcc

fccca

flkalbm

clusters

fcca

delete

rflk

flickrscout

fli_t

flickrNumber

flickrid

f2pdf

flwp

fccd

fcccd

flihot

flkr

fpt

twitter commands

twi

Goes to your Twitter homepage

twits

Twitter Search

@

Go to the Twitter profile of the specified user