Sometimes LoremSwiftum/web2 dictionary words are not available in free DictionaryAPI - Githubissues

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Sometimes LoremSwiftum/web2 dictionary words are not available in free DictionaryAPI #10

Closed soaapp closed 9 months ago

soaapp commented 9 months ago

Add a check first to see if API call throws error when word is not available in the API db.

Potential solutions:

change API to the Webster API (since macOS extracts dictionary from Webster anyways, but limited to 1000qs a day)
do API calls to the free dictionary API until a word is valid (doesn't need change to JSON parsing)

"Solutions" I do not like:

do a check to remove all words from words.txt file (Not a good solution...)
If the word is not available to the free dictionary API, maybe do a call to another dictionary API (Also not my favourite solution)
If the word is not available, just add a placeholder "duplicate" word (Band-aid fix)