Synonyms

synonym.php

<?php

if ($argc < 2) {
  echo "Usage ${argv[0]} WORD\n";
  exit(1);
}

$html = file_get_contents('http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/' . $argv[1]);
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$synonyms = $xpath->query('//a[@data-category]/span[@class="text"]');

foreach ($synonyms as $synonym) {
  echo $synonym->textContent . "\n";
}