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scrape synonyms from various web services

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CLI tool to extract synonyms/antonyms from online services, which formats
them into dict structures (word|alt :: defintion; 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 spit out error messages for charset issues as well.

SYNTAX

dingonyms --thesaurus "Define"
dingonyms --merriamwebster "find"
dingonyms --openthesaurus "Wort"
dingonyms --urban "bazinga"

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) {--thesaurus}
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.)

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