Dave Amenta .com » RegEx http://www.daveamenta.com (dot (at dave daveamenta) com) Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:22:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Search Urban Dictionary with C# http://www.daveamenta.com/2010-01/search-urban-dictionary-with-c/ http://www.daveamenta.com/2010-01/search-urban-dictionary-with-c/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:44:28 +0000 Dave http://www.daveamenta.com/?p=282 Here’s a quick example of how one might scrape the search results from Urban Dictionary.  This shows some nice use of Regular Expressions and WebClient.

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Thankfully Urban Dictionary is a very scrape-friendly site, finding results is as easy as locating two div’s and extracting the contents.

UrbanDictionary.Search(string); will return a list of key-value pairs which contain the word as the key, and the Urban Dictionary definition as the value.

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