Word of the Day

Posted in Internet by corypina 713 days ago

Pulls the Word of the Day from Dictionary.com's RSS feed.

Example (Date not included in Geeklet).

Geeklet files to download

wotd1.glet

Comments

corypina 692 days ago

There seems to be a problem with Dictionary.com's RSS feed (July 1, 2011). If you're getting a "302 Found" message, you're not alone. I expect it to solve itself.

stevenuzum 627 days ago

Is there anyway to split the word and the definition. I'd like to be able to have the word large and the definition small over the top. New to all this Geektool stuff.

themattman 549 days ago

Sorry you can't it comes from the website so you would have to have them do that which Sadly is almost imposible

ifuxusux 499 days ago

First, create two shell geeklets. Then, for the word geeklet, use the script below:

'#!/bin/bash

thing="curl --silent 'http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss' | grep -E '(title>|description>)' | tail -1 | \

sed -e 's///' -e 's///'"

set -- $thing

foo=$1

shift

bar=$@

echo "$foo"'

And for the other, use $bar on the last line instead of $foo, which will give the definition.