This gist is for showing an example of a custom wordpress menu.
If you want to get more from the menu item simply have a look at the $item object. i.e:
// Will return a large object with lots of props like title, url, description, id etc.
var_dump( $item );
This code works on Wordpress 4.1.1 as of 31st of March 2015
@beesmart, you're absolutely right, there's an error in the code.
Line 41 should be:
and Line 47 should be:
@hitautodestruct you may want to update this in the gist.