[Surfraw-devel] New Elvi: urban -- look up terms in the Urban Dictionary

J.R. Mauro jrm8005 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 1 22:07:56 UTC 2008


Hi,

I'm having so much fun using surfraw I've made yet another elvi. This
searches urbandictionary.com.

Thanks!
~J.R.

---

#!/bin/sh
#
# AUTHOR: J.R. Mauro
#
# DATE: Sat Nov  1 18:01:13 EDT 2008
#
# DESC: Elvi to search The Urban Dictionary
# elvi: urban  -- Search urbandictionary.com for a definition
. surfraw || exit 1

w3_usage_hook () {
    cat <<EOF
Usage: $w3_argv0 [options] [search words]...
Description:
  Look up a term in the Urban Dictionary
EOF
    w3_global_usage
}

w3_config
w3_parse_args "$@"
# w3_args now contains a list of arguments
if test -z "$w3_args"; then
    w3_browse_url "http://www.urbandictionary.com"
else
    escaped_args=`w3_url_of_arg $w3_args`
    w3_browse_url
"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=${escaped_args}"
fi



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