Apple Dictionary Parser is a command line tool and a library to parse and analyze MacOS's built-in dictionary files.
Currently only "New Oxford American Dictionary" is supported.
$ go install github.com/DQNEO/apple-dictionary-parser@latest
The command line tool apple-dictionary-parser will be installed in your $GOPATH/bin directory.
$ apple-dictionary-parser dump
This dump subcommand automatically finds the location of the dictionary file in your MacOS, and extract the binary content into a raw dump file (/tmp/noad.cache).
The format of the dump file is TSV (tab separated values), each line representing a word with definition.
<world title>\t<definition of the word in XML>\n
If you are just interested in the raw contents of the dictionary and want to process the data on your own, this will be all you want.
$ apple-dictionary-parser text > /tmp/all-words.txt
$ apple-dictionary-parser html > /tmp/all-words.html
$ apple-dictionary-parser html-split --out-dir /tmp/
This generates a.html, b.html, ..., z.html files in a given directory.
If you want to filter words to extract, you can use filtering options such as --words or --words-file
$ apple-dictionary-parser text --words=--words=happiness,joy,pleasure > /tmp/selected-words.txt
$ apple-dictionary-parser text --words-file=your-words.txt > /tmp/selected-words.txt
These filtering options are applicable to text, html and html-split subcommands.
$ apple-dictionary-parser etym /tmp/
This analyzes etymology graph and make outputs in various formats (yaml, html)
$ apple-dictionary-parser phonetics
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