from lxml import html import urllib from util import hook @hook.command('u') @hook.command def urban(inp): '''.u/.urban -- looks up on urbandictionary.com''' if not inp: return urban.__doc__ url = 'http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=' + \ urllib.quote(inp, safe='') page = html.parse(url) words = page.xpath("//td[@class='word']") defs = page.xpath("//div[@class='definition']") if not defs: return 'no definitions found' out = words[0].text_content().strip() + ': ' + ' '.join( defs[0].text_content().split()) if len(out) > 400: out = out[:out.rfind(' ', 0, 400)] + '...' return out