Have Unity access a web address and pull data from a specific part of it - Can I get some guidance?

Hello Unity forums, I am here to ask for some help, or at least a push in the right direction. I want to have Unity access a web address and return the contents of a specific part of it. Completely specifically, I want unity to access http://www.urbandictionary.com/random.php and return the contents of the first result.
Is there a way (possibly using the WWW and WWWForm classes?) to access the webpage and point it to a specific part of the html?
Thank you for any help, I usually figure this stuff out on my own but I'm not very good with the terminology relevant to this problem.
Have an excellent day!

 

No, not really. You can use WWW to grab the contents of the whole page, but then you'll have to use some sort of text processing (e.g. regular expressions) to extract the results that you want.

FYI: This is called content scraping, and some websites explicitly prohibit it.

 

Okay, thanks. Taking a closer look, it appears that Urban Dictionary actually has a form that you can fill out regarding the API they are developing, and questions being asked involve how many calls the app will make to the site, etc. So if I made a game accessing their website, it would put a lot of traffic on them, which almost definitely wouldn't be cool.

Thanks again for your response, yet another idea I'll be throwing in the trash...

 

Not necessarily. There are alternatives like Wiktionary. Not sure if they have a random word function, but everything else is there, including a web API. It should have almost everything you'll need.

Good luck