Issue in finding Synonyms of words using PyDictinary API

[frenky13]

I have been working on a project for documents analysis and developing it in Python. For analysis, I have been using Pydictionary for finding the synonyms of adverbs and adjective words. Earlier the API was working good and gives good results and I appreciate the developer for developing such an optimized and fast API. But from past couple of days, the API is not working properly. It gives me unexpected errors like "word has no Synonyms in the API". Sometimes it finds synonyms and but sometimes not. Can you please suggest me some solution for the same. I have been using PyDictionary version 1.5.2 in my project. Attaching snippet.

Thanks!!

[ShwetaNagdev]

Yes I am facing the same issue. Sometimes it gives synonyms sometimes it doesn't. Is the API under maintenance or there is some other problem?. Please let us know as soon as possible about what is the problem and when it will be solved. Thank You

[geekpradd]

@above, Will get back to you soon.

[Chmits]

I'm facing the same issue !! what's wrong !!

[Deepakdubey90]

@geekpradd , I was looking into it, found some index related error in both case antonyms/synonyms both, due to that exception its getting outside from try-block and return the result as None.

terms = data.select("section.antonyms")[1].findAll("li") IndexError: list index out of range

[BillBrazerZhang]

@geekpradd I come with the same problem. I found that in function synonym(term):

terms = data.select("div#filters-0")[0].findAll("li") just return an empty list, i.e. len(terms) = 0

I don't know much about searching text in website and what "div#filters-0" means, so can anyone know what's wrong with this instruction?

[WittmannF]

Same here:

from PyDictionary import PyDictionary as P
d = P()
d.synonym("Life")

gives:

Life has no Synonyms in the API

[cratervale]

Same Error

[Bhamil07734]

I'm a bit new to python and html, but through stumbling around a bit I was able to alter the original code to this point:

SynAntDictionary.txt

Before I was getting no results. I assume that thesaurus.com must have changed their code significantly enough to throw off the original selection/filter method. With this code I get results for every word that i've been able to access while browsing thesaurus.com manually during my limited testing. Of course It will still give the same error if theasurus.com does not return results. I would appreciate any further improvements/debugging. Thanks