dingonyms 0.8

fetch synonyms from various web services

CLI tool to extract synonyms/antonyms from online services, which formats them into dict structures (word|alt :: definition; etc.) suitable for ding.

It's fairly basic, and not all result sets are structured alike. Furthermore the extraction schemes aren't likely to last for long (web scraping is typically a maintenance task).
Only scans for singular words (most services wouldn't return results otherwise). And might yield error messages for charset issues as well.

SYNTAX

dingonyms --merriamwebster "find"

Parameter	Aliases	Class
--thesaurus	-t --thes	EN
--merriamwebster	-mw --merr --webster --merweb	EN
--synonym	-s --syn --synonym.com	EN
--reverso	--rev // -fr -es -it -pt -nl -ru -jp	EN/**
--wordhippo	-hippo --wordhip	EN
--mobythesaurus	-mby --moby	EN
--urban	-u --urb --ubn	LEXICON
--dictcc	--en-es --en-it --de-fr --en-pt	DICT
--openthesaurus	-ot --othes --open	DE
--woxikon	-wx --woxi	DE
--synonyme_de	-sd --desyn	DE
--all	(-t -mw -syn -rev -ot -wx -urban)	MIXED
--en	(-t -mw -syn -rev)	MIXED
--de	(-ot -wx -sd)	MIXED
--no-antonyms	-na	FLAG
--no-headers	-nh	FLAG
--async	--parallel --io	FLAG

Flags can be abbreviated and also combined: --thes --merrweb would query two services at once, or --all even all. While --en or --de run through language- specific functions. (See the man page for more details. There is a man page.)

CONFIG IN ~/.dingrc (take care to change 3 to available index)

set searchmeth(3,name) {Synonyms}
set searchmeth(3,type) {3}
set searchmeth(3,dictfile) {}
set searchmeth(3,separator) { :: }
set searchmeth(3,language1) {Group}
set searchmeth(3,language2) {Synonyms}
set searchmeth(3,grepcmd) {dingonyms}
set searchmeth(3,grepopts) {--async --thesaurus --merriamwebster --synonyms}
set searchmeth(3,maxlength) {30}
set searchmeth(3,maxresults) {200}
set searchmeth(3,minlength) {2}
set searchmeth(3,shapedresult) {1}
set searchmeth(3,foldedresult) {0}

You might want to add one entry for each search backend even. (Unique index, title/name, and grepopts --parameter each.)

SETUP (pip3 install -U dingonyms)

You might have to symlink ~/.local/bin/dingonyms into ~/bin after installation. pip-package binaries are often only picked up in terminal/interactive shells.

Hijack as module

Obviously this is priamrily a CLI tool, but can be utilized per monkeypatching:

import dingonyms ls = [] dingonyms.out.alternatives = lambda *x: ls.append(x)