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EZBot - irc.evilzone.org's official network bot
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Define word module #27

Closed chris2727 closed 9 years ago

chris2727 commented 9 years ago

"a define command to utilize googles, define:[word] altgough similar to the ud module, this will give real dictionary, helpful with certain words" - DeepCopy

Should be a simple module to make. Good suggestion DeepCopy.

ibabushkin commented 9 years ago

This seems to be of use: http://public.oed.com/subscriber-services/sru-service/. But their API is a bit clumsy and returns XML we'd need to clean. So maybe this http://developer.wordnik.com/#!/libraries#python is an option, they even provide a python library for it. If we install it on the server running the bot, this will be a piece of cake, otherwise might become a bit of ugly work. Anyway, I can work on it. -TheWormKill

techb commented 9 years ago

define.py has been added. It uses http://dictionary.reference.com and beautifulsoup.

Google uses something like ajax or something, so its kinda hard to grab it's data. They also stopped the dictionary api back in 2011, so the site I use works.

ibabushkin commented 9 years ago

Well looks as if I was too slow UPDATE: merged into testing.