UrbanScraper REST API
The UrbanScraper API provides Urban Dictionary definitions by passing the desired term in a GET call. The API relies on screen scraping with caching done on Heroku. JSON is preferred for responses, and JSONP is optional to circumvent Cross-origin resource sharing issues.

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