!Bang shortcuts
Use these shortcuts directly in the search box on UDO. Type a bang trigger followed by your query — for example !w dogs to search Wikipedia for "dogs".
| Trigger | Name | Site | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| !ax | arXiv | arxiv.org | Open preprint server for science, math, and CS (Cornell University) |
| !bc | Bandcamp | bandcamp.com | Music platform that pays artists fairly; supports independent music |
| !bang | bang index | udo.se | Index of all the bangs |
| !base | BASE | www.base-search.net | 300M+ academic documents from 12,000+ providers; Bielefeld University Library, Germany |
| !dlite | DDG Lite | lite.duckduckgo.com | Minimal, fast, low-bandwidth DuckDuckGo |
| !dnoai | DDG No AI | noai.duckduckgo.com | DuckDuckGo without AI summaries |
| !ddb | Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek | www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de | German digital cultural heritage — books, images, film, music from 40,000+ institutions |
| !doaj | DOAJ | doaj.org | Directory of Open Access Journals — peer-reviewed, free to read |
| !ddg | DuckDuckGo | duckduckgo.com | Privacy-respecting search, no personal tracking |
| !eco | Ecosia | www.ecosia.org | Search engine that plants trees with its ad revenue |
| !epmc | Europe PMC | europepmc.org | European biomedical literature archive; broader coverage than PubMed, EMBL-EBI (UK) |
| !eu | Europeana | www.europeana.eu | European cultural heritage — art, books, music, film |
| !fsd | Freesound | freesound.org | Creative Commons sound library, community-contributed |
| !gbif | GBIF | www.gbif.org | Global Biodiversity Information Facility; open species occurrence data, hosted in Denmark |
| !hal | HAL Open Science | hal.science | French and European open research archive; papers deposited directly by their authors |
| !ifx | iFixit | www.ifixit.com | Open repair guides — right to repair advocate |
| !imdb | IMDb | www.imdb.com | The infamous internet movie database |
| !inat | iNaturalist | www.inaturalist.org | Open biodiversity observations from around the world |
| !ia | Internet Archive | archive.org | Non-profit digital library of books, films, music, and the web |
| !inv | Inventaire | inventaire.io | Open book catalogue and sharing platform built on Wikidata |
| !jam | Jamendo | www.jamendo.com | CC-licensed music community; stream and download free music, musician-friendly, Luxembourg |
| !ka | Khan Academy | www.khanacademy.org | Free education for everyone, non-profit |
| !lv | LibriVox | librivox.org | Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers |
| !lilo | Lilo | search.lilo.org | French solidarity search engine; ad revenue funds social and environmental projects |
| !ocw | MIT OpenCourseWare | ocw.mit.edu | Free MIT course materials openly published online |
| !mj | Mojeek | www.mojeek.com | Independent index, no user tracking |
| !mw | Mwmbl | mwmbl.org | Community-built open source search index |
| !ol | Open Library | openlibrary.org | Universal catalogue of books by the Internet Archive |
| !opu | OpenLearn | www.open.edu | Free open learning from the UK's Open University — courses, articles, videos |
| !osm | OpenStreetMap | www.openstreetmap.org | Community-built open map of the world |
| !ov | Openverse | openverse.org | Search openly licensed images and audio from across the web |
| !gut | Project Gutenberg | www.gutenberg.org | Over 70,000 free public domain ebooks |
| !pm | PubMed | pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | Free access to biomedical and life science literature, NIH |
| !qw | Qwant | www.qwant.com | European search engine, no tracking |
| !rij | Rijksstudio | www.rijksmuseum.nl | 700,000+ free high-res artworks from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — freely downloadable |
| !ss | Semantic Scholar | www.semanticscholar.org | Free AI-powered academic research tool (Allen Institute, non-profit) |
| !seb | Standard Ebooks | standardebooks.org | Carefully produced free and open ebooks from public domain works |
| !sp | Startpage | www.startpage.com | Google results behind a privacy shield |
| !swc | Swisscows | swisscows.com | Swiss privacy search; semantic technology, no data collection, renewable energy data centre |
| !ted | TED | www.ted.com | Talks from independent thinkers on science, technology, and ideas worth spreading |
| !wb | Wayback Machine | web.archive.org | See archived versions of any URL — paste a web address after the bang |
| !wbk | Wikibooks | en.wikibooks.org | Free open-content textbooks, Wikimedia |
| !wd | Wikidata | www.wikidata.org | Open structured knowledge base, Wikimedia |
| !wc | Wikimedia Commons | commons.wikimedia.org | Freely reusable media — images, audio, video |
| !w | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Free community-edited encyclopedia |
| !wda | Wikipedia DA | da.wikipedia.org | Danish Wikipedia |
| !wde | Wikipedia DE | de.wikipedia.org | German Wikipedia |
| !wes | Wikipedia ES | es.wikipedia.org | Spanish Wikipedia |
| !wfi | Wikipedia FI | fi.wikipedia.org | Finnish Wikipedia |
| !wfr | Wikipedia FR | fr.wikipedia.org | French Wikipedia |
| !wnl | Wikipedia NL | nl.wikipedia.org | Dutch Wikipedia |
| !wno | Wikipedia NO | no.wikipedia.org | Norwegian Wikipedia |
| !wsv | Wikipedia SV | sv.wikipedia.org | Swedish Wikipedia |
| !wq | Wikiquote | en.wikiquote.org | Free collection of notable quotations, Wikimedia |
| !wso | Wikisource | en.wikisource.org | Free library of source texts and literature, Wikimedia |
| !wsp | Wikispecies | species.wikimedia.org | Free directory of all life on Earth — taxonomy and species data, Wikimedia |
| !wvy | Wikiversity | en.wikiversity.org | Free learning resources and research projects from the Wikimedia Foundation |
| !wv | WikiVoyage | en.wikivoyage.org | Free open travel guide, Wikimedia |
| !wt | Wiktionary | en.wiktionary.org | Free dictionary and thesaurus, Wikimedia |
| !zen | Zenodo | zenodo.org | Open research data and publications repository (CERN) |