mrshu / brutal-plugins

A set of plugins for brutal, the mighty chatbot
Apache License 2.0
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Add ability to explain word/abbreviation. #83

Open pepol opened 9 years ago

pepol commented 9 years ago

Example:

<user> !explain ROFL
<brutal> ROFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing

The databases that could be used are:

mrshu commented 9 years ago

@pepol there is http://www.abbreviations.com/API but their API is tough to work with and paid to some extend I think but it's worth a try.

One thing that might be interesting to look at is the DDG API (which is generally pre-parsed Wikipedia), eg https://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=CBA&o=json&pretty=1