dict.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Time-stamp: <2012-11-01 22:36:50 Thursday by devil>

# @version 1.0
# @author Xiang Wang ([email protected])



import urllib2,sys
import re

if len(sys.argv)==1:
    sys.exit("Usage: " + sys.argv[0] + " [#English words or Chinese words#]")


words = sys.argv[1]
for word in sys.argv[2:]:
    words = words + '%20' + word

uri = 'http://dict.cn/' + words

req = urllib2.Request(uri)
req.add_header('User-agent','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5')
resp = urllib2.urlopen(req)
html = resp.read()

data = re.findall('\<li\>\<span\>.*<\/strong\>\<\/li\>', html.decode('utf8'))

for d in data:
    #print d.encode('utf8')
    m = re.search('\<span\>(.+?)\<\/span\>.*\<strong>(.+?)\<\/strong\>', d.encode('utf8'))
    if m:
        print m.group(1)+ '\t' + m.group(2)