urbanscraper | An API for Urban Dictionary | REST library

by nickcharlton Ruby Version: Current License: MIT

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urbanscraper is a Ruby library typically used in Web Services, REST applications. urbanscraper has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Urban Dictionary is great. But, it's missing an API. So, this provides one. This was originally built to provide a data source for a an extension to the Mac quick launch tool, Alfred. It allowed you to request a definition which would then be returned back to you. Alfred 2 changed the way extensions worked, and so UrbanScraper gained a few new methods, allowing the workflow to give 'live' results. The live version is hosted on Heroku. It's a simple Sinatra application, using Nokogiri for HTML/XML parsing. MiniTest and VCR are used for testing and mocking web requests respectively.

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urbanscraper has a low active ecosystem.

It has 25 star(s) with 6 fork(s). There are 2 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 6 months.

There are 0 open issues and 4 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 505 days. There are 3 open pull requests and 0 closed requests.

It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.

The latest version of urbanscraper is current.

Quality

urbanscraper has 0 bugs and 0 code smells.

Security

urbanscraper has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported.

urbanscraper code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities.

There are 0 security hotspots that need review.

License

urbanscraper is licensed under the MIT License. This license is Permissive.

Permissive licenses have the least restrictions, and you can use them in most projects.

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urbanscraper releases are not available. You will need to build from source code and install.

Installation instructions are not available. Examples and code snippets are available.

urbanscraper saves you 253 person hours of effort in developing the same functionality from scratch.

It has 616 lines of code, 10 functions and 13 files.

It has medium code complexity. Code complexity directly impacts maintainability of the code.

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Community Discussions

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Ruby - How can I follow a .php link through a request and get the redirect link?

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Ruby - How can I follow a .php link through a request and get the redirect link?

Asked 2017-Jul-14 at 00:53

Firstly I want to make clear that I am not familiar with Ruby, at all.

I'm building a Discord Bot in Go as an exercise, the bot fetches UrbanDictionary definitions and sends them to whoever asked in Discord.

However, UD doesn't have an official API, and so I'm using this. It's an Heroku App written in Ruby. From what I understood, it scrapes the UD page for the given search.

I want to add random to my Bot, however the API doesn't support it and I want to add it.

As I see it, it's not hard since http://www.urbandictionary.com/random.php only redirects you to a normal link of the site. This way if I can follow the link to the "normal" one, get the link and pass it on the built scrapper it can return just as any other link.

I have no idea how to follow it and I was hoping I could get some pointers, samples or whatsoever.

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ANSWER

Answered 2017-Jul-14 at 00:53

Here's the "ruby" way using net/http and uri

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45092683

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Vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities reported

Install urbanscraper

You can download it from GitHub.
On a UNIX-like operating system, using your system’s package manager is easiest. However, the packaged Ruby version may not be the newest one. There is also an installer for Windows. Managers help you to switch between multiple Ruby versions on your system. Installers can be used to install a specific or multiple Ruby versions. Please refer ruby-lang.org for more information.

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