Oxford.py-Rewrite 1.0.1

Oxford API wrapper

Oxford.py – A simple wrapper for the Oxford API.

What is this package for?

This package is a wrapper for the Oxford API. Why? The Oxford API returns large amount of dict which hard to read, so we decided to simplify it for the users. (Get your API key and App ID from https://developer.oxforddictionaries.com/)

Usage

The package provides 2 classes, SyncClient and AsyncClient. The methods for the AsyncClient class are asynchronous and the methods for the SyncClient class are synchronous, but the same. If the debug variable is set to true when creating the SyncClient or AsyncClient object, the package will print the parsed api response to the console.

Synchronous Example:

from oxford import SyncClient

client = SyncClient("your_app_id", "your_app_key", language="en-gb")

def main():
    definition = client.define("People")[0]  # so we get the first definition
    print(definition)

main()

Asynchronous Example:

from oxford import AsyncClient
import asyncio

client = AsyncClient("your_app_id", "your_app_key", language="en-gb")


async def main():
    definitions = await client.define("People")
    definition = definitions[0]  # so we get the first definition
    print(definition)

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

Documentation

SyncClient.api_request This returns the whole massive API response wrapped in a dict, so if you want to work with this you can.

SyncClient.get_word_definition(word: str) (or SyncClient.define(word: str)) This returns an array with all definitions of the word.

SyncClient.get_word_examples(word: str) This returns an array with example phrases and/or sentences of the word.

SyncClient.get_audio_file(word: str) This returns an url to an audio file containing the word's pronunciation.

SyncClient.get_synonyms(word: str) This returns an array with synonyms of the word.

WordNotFoundException This exception is thrown if the word is not found in the dictionary (or the server returns a 404). If debug is set to true, the server response will be printed to the console.

HttpException This exception is thrown if the server returns anything other than 404 or 200 together with a message to help with debugging. If debug is set to true, the server response will be printed to the console.

This package is open source. Contribute here.