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Urban is a command line utility with an API to query definitions from Urban Dictionary.

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• Ruby >= 1.8.7

With Rubygems:

$ sudo gem install urban

With git and local working copy

$ git clone git://github.com/tmiller/urban.git
$ cd urban
$ sudo rake install

$ urban cookie monster

$ urban -r
$ urban --random

$ urban -a cookie monster
$ urban -ra

$ urban -u cookie monster
$ urban -ru

$ urban --help
$ urban --version

require 'urban'

# Search for a word
entry = Urban::Dictionary.search('impromtpu')

# Get a random word
entry = Urban::Dictionary.random

puts entry.phrase     # print the phrase
puts entry.url        # print the url of the phrase

# print all of the definitions
entry.definitions.each do |definition|
  puts definition
end

Copyright © 2011 Thomas Miller. See LICENSE for details.