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New request: onelook.com #1188

Open hamoudak opened 2 days ago

hamoudak commented 2 days ago

Please use the following format for a ZIM creation request (and delete unnecessary information)

benoit74 commented 1 day ago

Unfortunately due to the dynamic nature of this website (it issues a server request for every term entered in the search box), we cannot use our general purpose zimit scraper.

A custom scraper is needed which will be responsible to put the database in a ZIM, and develop a web UI capable to interact with the in-ZIM database (and query it with JS). Not something infeasible and probably not extremely hard, but definitely going to take some time, so without funding or a volunteer contributor committing to this, we might never see this happen, at least not very soon.

benoit74 commented 1 day ago

Edit: in fact this website is only an index to existing online dictionaries. So for offline usage, it means one has to also put all dictionaries in the ZIM. Aside from being a huge work we are probably never going to be able to complete, most of the dictionnary are probably not free at all. Either I get it wrong, or this is the kind of request we cannot fulfill.

Popolechien commented 1 day ago

Yeah I was going to say there probably is a potential rights issue. Would suggest we close as wontfix at this stage.

hamoudak commented 1 day ago

it takes definations from just one free website; wiktionary. maybe you can exclude all other dictionaries that point to any external dic, if it happend and there was a scraper. I don't know . am talking about the main domain.

now I wanted to ask you if these forums can be made ; am not sure of this; but they're very important to me. https://www.afaqattaiseer.net/
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the second forum on my request list is: https://majles.alukah.net/

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benoit74 commented 8 hours ago

If you only want to use wiktionary, then we have dedicated ZIMs for that, which already work well AFAIK. I don't get the benefit of using another website which then leads to wiktionary definition, why not searching directly inside wiktionary ZIM?

Regarding other websites, let's discuss this in dedicated issues. Please open one issue per website.

hamoudak commented 7 hours ago

yes I know, it was just the website style was good for displaying the written english and other good stuff. absolutely I have wiktionary and everything is recommended. ok, thank you so much.