🗣️ Urban Dictionary Definitions Scraper

🚀 Export crowd-sourced slang in seconds. Pull definitions, examples, votes, and audio links for any term, a stream of random entries, or the curated word of the day. No API key, no login, no rate-limit headaches.

The Urban Dictionary Definitions Scraper taps the same live feed that powers the urbandictionary.com homepage and returns 14 fields per record, including the definition, example sentence, author handle, community upvotes and downvotes, score, an autogenerated card image, a text-to-speech audio link, and a permalink. Urban Dictionary is the largest open repository of contemporary slang, with 12M+ user-submitted entries spanning street talk, gaming jargon, internet acronyms, regional expressions, and brand-new coinages.

The catalog updates continuously as the community votes and contributes. This Actor exposes three workflows in one input form: define a list of specific terms, pull a random sample for trend mining, or grab the Word of the Day feed for daily content pipelines. All three modes return identical record shapes so your downstream code stays simple.

📋 What the Urban Dictionary Scraper does

Three collection workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Define mode. Look up an exact list of terms and pull every competing definition ranked by community votes.
• 🎲 Random mode. Stream unrelated definitions for sampling, training data, or content discovery.
• 📅 Word of the Day mode. Fetch the curated daily feed for editorial pipelines and slack-bots.

Each record includes the slang word, the full definition, a usage example, the author's display name, upvotes, downvotes, a computed net score, the autogenerated social card image, the text-to-speech audio URL, the canonical permalink, and the original posting date.

💡 Why it matters: slang moves fast, and a phrase that was a meme last week can be a brand-safety risk tomorrow. Building your own crawler means parsing dynamic pages, handling permalinks, and refreshing every few hours. This Actor returns the structured data on demand, so your dictionary, moderator, or marketing tool stays on the pulse.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: audioUrl, author, defid, definition, example, imageUrl, permalink, score, scrapedAt, soundUrls, thumbsDown, thumbsUp, word, wordOfTheDayDate, writtenOn. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Urban Dictionary Definitions Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a mode, drop in your terms (or leave it random), and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Urban Dictionary, LLC. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available crowd-sourced data is collected.

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