YubNub: a (social) command line for the web

YubNub essentially consolidates searching for information on the web in one growing command line style web application. It was created by Jon Aquino in a singe-day hackathon using Ruby on Rails. YubNub allows keyword based searches or access to information similar to what is available in the address bars of browsers like Firefox, Opera and Maxthon. In fact that's the reason YubNub came into existence! As Jon says in his blog,

I was tired of setting up the same Firefox keywords on each of the 5 computers that I use. By putting my keywords into YubNub, I can hit "am mark twain" for an Amazon search, or "gmap vancouver" for a Google Maps search, no matter which computer I'm on.

The beauty of YubNub is that anyone can help to extend it. If there is an existing web service with a submit form, they can add it pretty easily. But even more interesting is the adding of complex data-processing services (like validating an RSS feed, or converting webpages to audio using text-to-speech). There are already around 6000 commands available! To check out the list of commands, go to YubNub and type the command "ls" (what else!). You may also type "ls <search text>" to search for a particular command. For example the command "xe -amount 100 -from USD -to INR" shows a page which converts $100 to Indian Rupees at the most current exchange rates. YubNub can be accessed in many ways other than the web interface. These include a Firefox, Safari and IE integration, QuickSilver, a BASH script, a Windows command line application, a Dashboard Widget and even Emacs intergration! Trivia: YubNub means 'Hooray' in the Ewok language. (Ewoks are a fictional race in the Star Wars movies) Links YubNub.org - a (social) command line for the web YubNub applications 50 most used YubNub commands Jon Aquino's Blog Entry for YubNub