#!/usr/bin/env ruby require "rexml/document" require "net/https" RSS_FEED = "https://www.merriam-webster.com/wotd/feed/rss2" rss = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(RSS_FEED)) xml = REXML::Document.new(rss) cur = if ARGV[0] == "yesterday" xml.elements["rss/channel/item[2]"] else xml.elements["rss/channel/item[1]"] end puts "#{cur.elements["title"].text}: #{cur.elements["merriam:shortdef"].text}"