PyBites-Open-Source / pybites-tools

A repo to commit common Python utility scripts and snippets
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Add a tool to look for meaning of words #13

Closed bbelderbos closed 2 years ago

bbelderbos commented 2 years ago

I use Google but prefer command line :)

Scraping Google might not be too straight forward (seems they had an API which is deprecated now). I prefer an API over web scraping so we could use this: https://dictionaryapi.dev/ - seems to work pretty well and gives phonetics and synonyms as well.

rhyspowell commented 2 years ago

Might pick this one up as its something Ive done in a different language

bbelderbos commented 2 years ago

Nice, thanks