The Most-Used Commands

Here are the most-used YubNub commands of all time. The counting began on June 29, 2005.


xny
Get description of particular yahoo news
15283407 uses - Created 2006-09-14 19:54 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:08 - Nominate - Description - http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=%s&c=&eo=UTF-8

olrd
OneLook Reverse Dictionary Find a word by giving the definition: ex. olrd barrel maker ("cooper") ex. olrd museum guide ("docent") Also, find crossword answers: ex. olrd m?z??t:composer ("Mozart") ex. olrd sat*:composer ("Satie")
12576237 uses - Created 2006-01-27 19:37 - Last used 2010-07-29 17:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.onelook.com/?w=*&loc=revfp&clue=%s

g (Golden Egg)
Performs a Google search using the given keywords.
9554972 uses - Created 2005-06-06 07:29 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

gnws
Takes Google news in UTF-8 format
9005308 uses - Created 2006-09-17 18:11 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Nominate - Description - http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=%s&output=rss

url (Golden Egg)
Converts a YubNub command to a URL. For example, url gim porsche 911 displays the following text: http://images.google.com/images?q=porsche+911 This command will be useful for people experimenting with chaining YubNub commands together.
4054915 uses - Created 2005-07-15 04:39 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Description - http://yubnub.org/parser/url?command=%s

% (Golden Egg)
arguments: <RANGE> The format of the range parameter is: N N'th word of the phrase, counted from 1 N- from N'th word to end of phrase N-M from N'th to M'th (included) word -M from first to M'th (included) word This syntax is is based on the Linux command CUT Here's the manual page: http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/Linux/man1/CUT.1.html <PHRASE> The string, words separated by spaces. <SILENT true> Optional argument, if set no error message is showed when there is a mistake in the sintaxis EXAMPLES % ...
2832473 uses - Created 2005-12-14 18:31 - Last used 2010-07-29 23:40 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/yubtools/split.php?phrase=%s&silentmode=${silent}&xn_auth=no

gdeff
Performs a "Google Define:" command which gets definitions of the word(s) in all languages you've submitted
2260492 uses - Created 2006-09-08 06:56 - Last used 2010-07-29 09:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+%s&hl=en&lr=&oi=definel&defl=all

pipett
test
2089270 uses - Created 2006-10-15 17:41 - Last used 2010-07-27 23:15 - Nominate - Description - open {url pipett {% 2- %s}};{url echo {% 1 %s}}

onelook
Dictionary Search using Onelook. Example: onelook duplicity
1599034 uses - Created 2005-06-20 20:38 - Last used 2010-07-27 20:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.onelook.com/?w=%s&ls=a

wp (Golden Egg)
English WikiPedia search
1499837 uses - Created 2005-06-05 22:32 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/?search=%s

echo (Golden Egg)
NAME echo - display a line of text SYNOPSIS echo [STRING] EXAMPLE echo Hello, World! AUTHOR Jonathan Aquino <jonathan.aquino@gmail.com>
632280 uses - Created 2005-07-16 19:48 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Description - http://yubnub.org/example/echo?text=%s

ifThen (Golden Egg)
Compares two values or evaluates a conditional statement and returns a result depending on the result. '-VALUE1' and '-VALUE2' are compared using the method defined by the '-TEST' parameter ,or the conditional statement is evaluated, if the result is true then the RESULT IF TRUE is returned. Otherwise the RESULT IF FALSE is returned (or nothing is returned if undefined). -ELSE, RESULT IF FALSE, -REDIRECT and -DELIMIT are optional parameters Possible values for the '-test' parameter in the first...
615065 uses - Created 2005-08-12 04:14 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:08 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/yubscripts/ifthen/ifthen.php?value1=${value1}&value2=${value2}&test=${test}&then=${then}&els=${else}&redirect=${redirect=false}&input=%s&delimit=${delimit=,}&xn_auth=no

gim (Golden Egg)
Performs a Google Image search using the given keywords.
550672 uses - Created 2005-06-04 20:39 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Description - http://images.google.com/images?q=%s

yt (Golden Egg)
Search YouTube.. Like flickr for videos.
538589 uses - Created 2005-08-14 16:12 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:05 - Description - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_sort=relevance&search_query=%s&search=Search

recursiveLast
Returns the last word in a phrase, using a silly recursion of browser redirects. If the phrase is too long, your browser may give up on following the trail of breadcrumbs. Example: reursiveLast one two three (returns "three").
451798 uses - Created 2006-03-07 18:55 - Last used 2010-06-12 12:11 - Nominate - Description - ifThen -redirect True -value1 {% 2- %s} -value2 -test EQUAL -then %s -else http://yubnub.org{url[no url encoding] recursiveLast {% 2- %s}} [no url encoding]

ls (Golden Egg)
Lists information about all the commands in YubNub. Sorts entries by date. If you specify a word or phrase, YubNub will search the descriptions, names, and urls for that word or phrase. For example, "ls music" will return all YubNub commands pertaining to music.
422042 uses - Created 2005-06-04 12:42 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:07 - Description - http://yubnub.org/kernel/ls?args=%s

wnet
it searches for words in wordnet dictionary an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.
352149 uses - Created 2005-11-28 02:12 - Last used 2010-07-28 17:31 - Nominate - Description - http://dict.die.net/%s

imdb (Golden Egg)
Searches for anything on the International Movie Database
290819 uses - Created 2005-06-05 23:00 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:06 - Description - http://imdb.com/find?q=%s

split (Golden Egg)
NAME split - displays several webpages on a single screen SYNOPSIS split [URL] [URL] [URL] ... EXAMPLE split http://google.com http://yahoo.com http://answers.com split {url g porsche} {url y porsche} {url a porsche} AUTHOR Jonathan Aquino <jonathan.aquino@gmail.com>
262851 uses - Created 2005-07-22 03:45 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Description - http://yubnub.org/example/split?type=t&urls=%s

wiki (Golden Egg)
Search for Wikipedia Articles.
247400 uses - Created 2005-06-09 00:19 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:08 - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&fulltext=Search

explode (Golden Egg)
NAME explode - Explodes a string to an array in xml, xoxo, or json(p) format EXAMPLES explode 1,2,3,4 Returns XML-style 'array' with elements 1, 2, 3, and 4 explode 1+2+3+4 -token + Returns XML-style 'array' with elements 1, 2, 3, and 4 explode 1,2,3,4 -as xoxo Returns XOXO-style 'array' with elements 1, 2, 3, and 4 explode 1,2,3,4 -as json Returns JSON-style 'array' with elements 1, 2, 3, and 4 explode 1,2,3,4 -as json -callback x Returns JSONP-style 'array' with elements 1, 2, 3, and 4 using c...
202371 uses - Created 2006-04-25 11:02 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/singpolymaplay/yubnub-explode.php?xn_auth=no&data=%s&token=${token=,}&as=${as=xml}&callback=${callback}

foreach (Golden Egg)
Loops through and 'array' in XML, XOXO, or JSON form (data wrapped in a JSONP callback will not work) and runs a YubNub command on it. NOTES If the YubNub command has a '%s' specified in it then the array items are substituted in there, otherwise they are simply passed at the end of the command. If you want to use pipes in what you pass the -cmd parameter you must use the syntax [|cmd|] instead of {cmd} because otherwise YubNub would evaluate the piping before foreach was run. AUTHOR Stephen Pa...
198689 uses - Created 2006-04-25 12:13 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/singpolymaplay/yubnub-foreach.php?xn_auth=no&data=%s&cmd=${cmd=echo}&as=${as}&type=${type}&callback=${callback}

mash2 (Golden Egg)
NAME mash2 - A rewrite of the mash command that allows for multiple keywords and unlimited commands. SYNOPSIS mash2 [KEYWORDS] -cmd [YUBNUB COMMANDS] EXAMPLES mash2 singpolyma comments -cmd g y am a gfl gdeff del2 Mashes the results for 'singpolyma comments' from the g, y, am, a, gfl, gdeff, and del2 commands on one page. NOTES See also : mash, mashswitch, mash2test, ms2 AUTHOR Stephen Paul Weber a.k.a. Singpolyma http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/ Kudos to Brian A a.k.a. chicagosage for his h...
196925 uses - Created 2006-11-22 17:42 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Description - split {foreach {explode ${cmd} -token <space>} -cmd echo [|url %25s %s|] -as <space>}

strReplace (Golden Egg)
Replaces all instances of a string or character with another string or character, and returns the resulting string. This command IS case sensitive. A solitary space character can be indicated in -find or -replace by using either " " or %20. AUTHOR Allen Ormond <aormond (at) fromrocks (dot) com>
194147 uses - Created 2005-08-13 19:16 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:08 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/yubscripts/strings/stringmanip.php?command=strreplace&find=${find}&replace=${replace}&string=${string}&xn_auth=no

myicomp
30dc tool. Automatically checks phrase against MYI
183225 uses - Created 2007-08-08 21:04 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/trends?q=male+yeast+infection%2C+%22%s%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Gphraseus
Automatically adds quotations to your search phrase, as well as "&gl=US".
182491 uses - Created 2007-08-09 03:02 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22%s%22&btnG=Google+Search&gl=US

match (Golden Egg)
NAME match - Run a RegExp pattern against a string SYNOPSIS match [STRING] [-url [URL FOR PAGE TO USE AS STRING]] -pattern [REGEXP PATTERN] -nbrmatches [RETURN NUMBER OF MATCHES?] -matchnbr [RETURN MATCH AT] -capture [CAPTURE?] -as [AS] -callback [CALLBACK] EXAMPLES match <div>hello</div>blah -pattern /<div>.*?<\/div>/ returns an XML-style 'array' with one element, '<div>hello</div>' match <div>hello</div>blah<div>hi</div> -pattern /<div>.*?<\/div>/ returns an XML-style 'array' with two elements...
177599 uses - Created 2006-04-26 07:40 - Last used 2010-07-29 00:11 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/singpolymaplay/yubnub-match.php?xn_auth=no&string=%s&pattern=${pattern}&nbrmatches=${nbrmatches}&matchnbr=${matchnbr}&capture=${capture}&as=${as}&callback=${callback}&url=${url}

strFind (Golden Egg)
Returns the position of the first occurence of a string or character within another string. If nothing is found, the command returns 0. Set -reverse to TRUE if you wish to find the first instance starting from the end of the string. This command IS case sensitive. AUTHOR Allen Ormond <aormond (at) fromrocks (dot) com>
168976 uses - Created 2005-08-13 19:40 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:08 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/yubscripts/strings/stringmanip.php?command=strfind&find=${find}&reverse=${reverse=FALSE}&string=${string}&xn_auth=no

eop (Golden Egg)
This command was created to assist in creating commands that go to one location if given a parameter, and another if empty. It checks between two tokens in a string (default @) for any value (typically %s), and returns the whole string (minus tokens) if not empty. If the value IS empty, nothing is returned (or the value of -else is returned). You can set the -else parameter to return a string if the value is empty. By default, the tokens eop looks between are @. This can be changed by setting t...
165874 uses - Created 2006-04-02 16:43 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:08 - Description - ifthen -value1 {strfind -find ${token=@}${token=@} -string %s} -value2 0 -test equal -then {strreplace -find ${token=@} -replace -string %s} -else ${else}

leo (Golden Egg)
Check leo for German / English translation
150434 uses - Created 2005-06-05 23:51 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:08 - Description - http://dict.leo.org/?search=%s

gm (Golden Egg)
Google Maps Search. Google Maps has several handy features included within it. To map out a single location, just type the address. Example: gmaps 123 Maple Dr. Detroit, MI To find businesses or other specific things, simply give the location and business. Example: pizza in Detroit To get directions from one location to another, type both locations. Example: from 123 Maple Dr. Detroit, MI to 321 Oak Street Dayton, OH
149561 uses - Created 2005-06-06 06:42 - Last used 2010-07-30 04:18 - Description - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s

gg (Golden Egg)
Performs a Google search using the given keywords.
143132 uses - Created 2005-06-05 22:44 - Last used 2010-07-30 03:08 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

gde
Search in google.de
142583 uses - Created 2005-07-08 09:19 - Last used 2010-07-30 00:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=%s&btnG=Suche&meta=

gi
Google Images
137128 uses - Created 2005-06-17 22:12 - Last used 2010-07-30 04:56 - Nominate - Description - http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&&tbo=1

wpde (Golden Egg)
German Wikipedia Search
135717 uses - Created 2005-06-05 22:35 - Last used 2010-07-30 00:45 - Description - http://de.wikipedia.org?search=%s

man (Golden Egg)
Displays helpful information about the given command. "man" stands for "manual". You're looking at man information right now!
129287 uses - Created 2005-06-04 15:18 - Last used 2010-07-30 01:28 - Description - http://yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=%s

create (Golden Egg)
Creates a new YubNub command with the given name (must not already exist). You will be prompted for a URL pointing to the implementation of the command -- it might be an existing service (e.g. the Google Image Search submit form), or your own custom implementation sitting on your own server. Welcome to the Web OS: small pieces, loosely joined.
126799 uses - Created 2005-06-04 18:52 - Last used 2010-07-30 04:48 - Description - http://yubnub.org/command/new?name=%s

scrape (Golden Egg)
Mandatory arguments: -tokens <token_list_string> A list of tokens (delimited by spaces) which the user has determined to be sufficient to consistently point the parser to the exact location of the required data. For example -tokens <title> </title> would return all characters between these two HTML tags. -dirs <direction_list_string> A list of directions associated with each token. 0 instructs the parser to look in the forward direction, while 1 instructs the parser to look in the reverse direc...
121697 uses - Created 2005-07-22 03:42 - Last used 2010-07-30 03:24 - Description - http://www.eigology.com/yubnub/parse.php?ynp_tokens=${tokens}&ynp_dirs=${dirs}&yndesturl=${url}&ynp_debug=${debug=0}&ynp_http=${method=get}&ynp_scrape=${textonly=1}

ge (Golden Egg)
Displays the YubNub Golden Eggs - a list of YubNub commands that people seem to find particularly useful and interesting. If you specify a word or phrase, YubNub will search the descriptions, names, and urls for that word or phrase. For example, "ge dictionary" will return all Golden-Egg commands pertaining to dictionaries.
120366 uses - Created 2005-06-16 05:47 - Last used 2010-07-30 03:34 - Description - http://yubnub.org/kernel/golden_eggs?args=%s

am (Golden Egg)
Searches Amazon.com using the given keyword (e.g. book title, author, etc.)
120164 uses - Created 2005-06-04 20:06 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:07 - Description - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?mode=blended&keyword={iconv - to ISO-8859-1 -str %s}[use %20 for spaces]

gfl
Google's I Feel Lucky option Takes you to the 1st option.
116426 uses - Created 2005-06-24 02:56 - Last used 2010-07-30 02:44 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

FB
facebook search for keyword or shortcut to facebook main page (if no keyword given) searches Names, Profiles, Groups, Events in All Networks for keyword Examples: fbk john doe alaska (goes to http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=john+doe+alaska) fbk (goes to http://www.facebook.com)
95225 uses - Created 2005-06-25 02:53 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:04 - Nominate - Description - http://www.facebook.com{ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then /s.php?q=%s}

youtube
Searches on Youtube, in case yt is too hard to remember
93839 uses - Created 2006-01-27 21:46 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_sort=relevance&search_query=%s&search=Search

random (Golden Egg)
NAME rand - display a specified number of random numbers in a specified range, courtesy of random.org SYNOPSIS rand -min <min value = 1> -max <max value = 100> -num <how many to generate = 1> EXAMPLE rand 49 rand -min 1998 -max 2005 rand -num 5 -max 20 AUTHOR Richard Frankel
88254 uses - Created 2005-06-04 19:57 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:00 - Description - http://random.org/cgi-bin/randnum?num=${num=1}&min=${min=1}&max=%s${max}&col=1

gmail (Golden Egg)
With no parameter, opens GMail, with a parameter, searches GMail for parameter (must be logged in). Examples: gmail - opens GMail gmail world peace - searches GMail for world peace (if logged in) Stian Haklev, shaklev@gmail.com. My first command using eop, thanks Allen, this is awesome!
87123 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:39 - Last used 2010-07-30 04:40 - Description - https://gmail.google.com/{eop gmail?search=query&q=@%s@&view=tl&fs=1}

gmaps (Golden Egg)
Google Maps Search. Google Maps has several handy features included within it. To map out a single location, just type the address. Example: gmaps 123 Maple Dr. Detroit, MI To find businesses or other specific things, simply give the location and business. Example: pizza in Detroit To get directions from one location to another, type both locations. Example: from 123 Maple Dr. Detroit, MI to 321 Oak Street Dayton, OH
86045 uses - Created 2005-06-06 06:41 - Last used 2010-07-30 04:58 - Description - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s

ebay (Golden Egg)
Ebay auction item search
84881 uses - Created 2005-06-06 00:47 - Last used 2010-07-30 03:47 - Description - http://search.ebay.com/%s[use - for spaces]

d
Dictionary
82003 uses - Created 2005-06-10 21:50 - Last used 2010-07-30 05:06 - Nominate - Description - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s

scr
scroogle google proxy no cookies | no search-term records | access log deleted after 7 days
75387 uses - Created 2005-06-22 22:41 - Last used 2010-07-30 02:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=%s

php (Golden Egg)
PHP function lookup.
74343 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:24 - Last used 2010-07-30 04:59 - Description - http://www.php.net/%s