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Shell wrapper for the urbandictionary API
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
## Author: Alex Timmermann <modprobe@linux.com> | |
## CC-0 (Public Domain) | |
require 'json' | |
require 'open-uri' | |
if ARGV.length < 1 or ARGV.length > 2 | |
print "Wrong number of parameters. You dumbass.\n" | |
exit | |
end | |
s = ARGV[0] | |
s_rep = s.gsub " ", "+" | |
BASE_URL = "http://api.urbandictionary.com/v0/define?term=" | |
response = open(BASE_URL + s_rep).read | |
results = JSON.parse(response, symbolize_names: true) | |
num_of_results = 1 | |
if ARGV.length == 2 | |
num_of_results = ARGV[1].to_i | |
end | |
unless results[:list].empty? | |
1.upto num_of_results do |i| | |
word = results[:list][i-1][:word] | |
print "#{word}\n" | |
print "=" * word.length + "\n\n" | |
definition = results[:list][i-1][:definition] | |
print "#{definition}\n\n" | |
print "-" * `tput cols`.to_i + "\n\n" unless i == num_of_results | |
end | |
else | |
print "No results.\n" | |
end |
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