Definition of word not found, HTTP 404

[AshvinR12]

Hi, I have been running into this error for a number of words and wanted to know if this is something wrong with the way I'm implementing the code or whether the definition isn't in this package. Is there a way to see the number of words that have definitions in this package?

If it isn't would you be aware of how I can obtain these definitions?

library(dictionaRy)
#> Loading required package: jsonlite
#> Loading required package: tibble
define("talar")
#> Warning in open.connection(con, "rb"): cannot open URL
#> 'https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/talar': HTTP status was '404
#> Not Found'
#> Error in open.connection(con, "rb"): cannot open the connection to 'https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/talar'

^{Created on 2024-04-27 with reprex v2.1.0}

Session info

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Thank you for your consideration.

[stevecondylios]

Interesting. Sadly, it looks like the dictionary that dictionaRy uses doesn't have that word:

But the word can be seen in other dictionaries, e.g. thefreedictionary.com:

Since dictionaRy is based on https://dictionaryapi.dev, and it's an open source project, you should be able to get all the info on the internals here: https://github.com/meetDeveloper/freeDictionaryAPI

That should let you figure out the number of words/definitions (I haven't checked, but let me know how you go).

As for how to get the definitions of words not contained in the https://dictionaryapi.dev dictionary, thinking off the top of my head here, but you could try scraping https://www.thefreedictionary.com/talar that might be the easiest / most pragmatic way.

e.g. your code could do something like try dictionaRy, if that errors, try thefreedictionary.com.