A new UrbanDictionary plugin to obtain correct definitions of words.

commands/dictionary.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
+#
+# Public domain, 2013 Legoktm
+#
+
+from json import loads
+from urllib import quote
+from urllib2 import urlopen
+
+from earwigbot.commands import Command
+
+class UrbanDictionary(Command):
+    """Get the real definition of a word."""
+    name = "urban"
+    commands = ["dictt", "definee", "defne", "dct", "ud"]
+
+    def process(self, data):
+        if not data.args:
+            return
+        q = ' '.join(data.args)
+
+        url = "http://api.urbandictionary.com/v0/define?term={}"
+        q = quote(q, safe="")
+        query = urlopen(url.format(q)).read()
+        res = loads(query)
+        if res['result_type'] == 'exact':
+            defin = res['list'][0]
+            msg = 'Definition: {definition}; example: {example}'.format(**defin)
+            self.reply(data, msg)
+        elif res['result_type'] == 'fulltext':
+            l = [i['word'] for i in res['list']]
+            msg = 'Here are some close matches...: {}'.format(', '.join(l))
+            self.reply(data, msg)
+        else:
+            self.reply(data, 'Sorry, no results found :(')
+