urb is a dank cli dictionary to quickly search up definitions from Urban Dictionary and Google
It is primarily supposed to be used from the terminal, and can also be used as a python module to use the Urban Dictionary and Google dictionay APIs and much more
The CLI offers a lot of fun amusing commands to fulfill your vocabulary needs from the convinience of the terminal.
pip install urb
Pulls up the definition for a word. the word to be searched is given as an argument to this command. Urb searches words on urban dicitonary by default
urb define hello
fetch search results from Google dictionary instead \
urb define -g hello
urb define --google hello
Specify the result to display out of multiple definitions fetched from the resources. There can be multiple definitions for a single word, use this option to choose which definition gets displayed. This option takes a number as an argument.
urb define -i 3 hello
urb define --index 3 hello
Get's the definition of a random word. This commands takes no arguments and has no options.
urb random
use this commands to verify if a spelling is correct. urb offers corrections is a spelling is wrong. This commands takes a word as an argument and has no options.
urb spell convinience
Get a word of the day.
urb wotd
Specify the result to display out of multiple definitions fetched from the resource. There can be multiple multiple words of the day, use this option to choose which definition gets displayed. This option takes a number as an argument.
urb wotd -i 3
urb wotd --index 3
fetch a random quote
urb quote
FAQs
a command line dictionary and wrapper for various dictionary APIs
We found that urb demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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