rural-dict

📖 Rural Dictionary

We're rural, not urban.

Privacy-respecting, NoJS-supporting Urban Dictionary frontend.

🌐 Instances

URL	Country	Owner name	Owner Website
https://rd.vern.cc + Tor + I2P	US	~vern	https://vern.cc
https://rd.bloat.cat	RO	bloatcat	https://bloat.cat
https://rd.thirtysix.pw	NL	thirtysix	https://thirtysix.pw

✨ Features

Frontend supports all Urban Dictionary features and has endpoint-parity with it. Available features include:

• Word definitions
• Author pages
• Homepage with words of the day
• Random word definitions
• 404 page with words similar to search
• Pagination

🚀 Deployment

First, install Rye by following the installation guide.

Then, clone repository:

git clone https://git.vern.cc/cobra/rural-dict
cd rural-dict

🐳 With Docker

docker build . -t rural-dict
docker compose up -d

💻 Without containerization

rye sync --no-dev
rye run uvicorn app.__main__:app --no-access-log --proxy-headers \
    --forwarded-allow-ips '*' --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5758

🛡️ Running behind a reverse proxy

To run the app behind a reverse proxy, ensure that the appropriate proxy headers are added. Below is a sample configuration for NGINX:

location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5758;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
}

🔧 Development

Use rye sync to install dependencies and required Python version.

Use rye run dev to start development server which will reload on every change to source code.

Use rye check --fix and rye fmt to lint and format code. Assumed to be run before each commit to guarantee code quality.

Use rye run basedpyright to ensure typing is correct.

🤝 Support

Join our Matrix room for support and other things related to Rural Dictionary.

🔗 Redirection

To use Rural Dictionary, simply replace an Urban Dictionary URL with a Rural Dictionary URL from the instance list above. Auto-redirect browser extension like Redirector can be used to achieve this.

For example, change:

https://urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kin

to:

https://rd.vern.cc/define.php?term=kin

Note: More endpoints are supported.

👥 Contributors

• thirtysix, rewrote project in a more modern libraries stack and implemented missing Urban Dictionary features
• zortazert, created the initial Urban Dictionary frontend using JavaScript and helped develop Rural Dictionary

📜 License

This project is licensed under the AGPLv3+ license - see the license file for details.