guyyatsu / englishlanguageapi

Some functions for figuring out what a word means.

Lab-93 Dictionary API & Linguistic Analysis Tools

This package offers a simple command-line command for scraping the definition of a word from dictionary.com and returning it to the user.

It also provides a mechanism for building your own in-house dictionary from a list of over 50,000 words.

Installation

The module is available on Pip, to install to a virtual environment type:

pip install EnglishLanguageAPI

Single-Case Usage

To look up the definition of a single word, use the --word={$WORD} flag, where $WORD is the word to search for.

EnglishLanguageAPI --word={word}

Dictionary Database Builder

The library also includes a system for building an offline dictionary by automating the process of selecting random words to look up and then writing the word and its definition to a sqlite3 database file.

• --database: Write the definition to as many random words as time allows for.
• --resume: Keep track of what words haven't been entered into the database.
• --disposable-wordlist: A consumable copy of the 50000-wordlist.txt file, for keeping track of what still needs to be defined.
• --wordlist: Filepath to the local hardcopy of the 50000-wordlist.txt file.