limichaelcj/datamuse-api-script-ruby

Datamuse API Call script (Ruby)

Usage (from terminal):

ruby datamuse.rb <query> <keyword> <query> <keyword> # etc...

*Requires a minimum of two arguments (i.e. one query-keyword pair)

NOTE: Datamuse API response will be written to the file specified in config.yml as JSON, relative to the current working directory.

Options:

• related: Words related to keyword
• synonym: Synonyms of keyword
• antonym: Antonyms of keyword
• sound: Words that sound similar to keyword
• rhyme: Words that rhyme with keyword
• describe: Adjectives often used to describe keyword
• describe_by: Nouns often described by keyword
• prefix: Words that start with keyword
• suffix: Words that end with keyword
• spelling: Spelled like the given expression (?= wildcard,*= multiple wildcard)(ex. t??e, *graphy)
• follow: Words that often follow keyword
• precede: Words that often precede keyword
• general: Words that are more general than keyword
• specific: Words that are more specific than keyword
• comprise: Words that keyword comprises
• part: Parts of a keyword
• topic/sort: Sort results by a topic keyword
• trigger/associated: Words triggered by keyword
• homophone: Homophones of keyword
• max: Set the maximum number of results to receive from the API call

Examples

Words related to fish and start with "tr"

ruby datamuse.rb related fish prefix t
# => [ "trout", "tributaries", "troll", "tripletail", "truttaceous", ...] >> datamuse_output.json

Words that rhyme with cake, related to dessert

ruby datamuse.rb rhyme cake related dessert
# => [ "steak", "bake", "pancake", "cupcake", "cheesecake", ...] >> datamuse_output.json

Adjectives used to describe fruit, sorted by color

ruby datamuse.rb describe fruit sort color
# => ["colored", "purple", "red", "yellow", "luscious", "scarlet", ...] >> datamuse_output.json