Use HTTPS version of Urban Dictionary

archergs · Feb 13, 2018 · 4cad307 · 4cad307
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diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ beautifulsoup4==4.3.2
 flask==0.10.1
 gunicorn==18.0
 newrelic==2.40.0.34
+requests[security]==2.18.4
 
diff --git a/urban-word-of-the-day.py b/urban-word-of-the-day.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 import json
-import urllib2
+import requests
 
 from flask import Flask
 from flask.ext.cache import Cache
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@
 APP = Flask(__name__)
 CACHE = Cache(APP, config={'CACHE_TYPE': 'simple'})
 CACHE_TIMEOUT = 1800 # 30 minutes
-URL = 'http://www.urbandictionary.com'
+URL = 'https://www.urbandictionary.com'
 
 def get_wod(day=0):
     if day > 6:
         raise LookupError('Words of the day older than one week from today are not available.')
 
-    content = urllib2.urlopen(URL).read()
+    content = requests.get(URL).text
     soup = BeautifulSoup(content)
     words = []
     meanings = []