japanese.zshrc

#For Japanese Studies

#Get Japanese definition from jisho.org.  Uses a ruby script, jishourl, to build the url and
#make sure it's encoded properly.  After that curl pulls down the data and pipes it into
#nokogiri for parsing.
function jdef() {
	curl -s "$(jishourl $1)" | nokogiri -e 'puts $_.at_css("span.meaning-meaning").text'
}
#Adds a new word and definition to the Firebase Realtime Database via a cloud function
alias nw='function _nw() { 
  def=$(jdef $1);
  echo $1;
  echo $def;
  curl -G "https://us-central1-japanese-vocab-2d5af.cloudfunctions.net/addVocab" --data-urlencode "word=$1" --data-urlencode "meaning=$def"
};
_nw'