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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

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