William Whitaker's Words script

Wwords.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

def url(x)
  "http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wordz.pl?keyword=" + x
end

def get(url)
  open(url)
end

def parse(resp)
  Nokogiri::HTML(resp).css("pre").map do |text|
    text.content.split("\n\n")
  end
end

def all(word)
  parse(get(url(word)))
end
ARGV.each do |word|
  puts parse(get(url(word))).inspect
end

x = ""

while x = gets
  puts all(x)
  puts "="*80
end