/vocabpie

Provides a suite of cli utilities that will look up word definitions, synonyms/antonyms, and etymologies.

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vocabpie: CLI utilties that will look up word definitions, synonyms/antonyms, and etymologies.

vocabpie CLI utilties that will look up word definitions, synonyms/antonyms, and etymologies.

vocabpie is built with BeautifulSoup and requests

Features

  • Console interface
  • Look up word definitions from dictionary.com with the dict utility
  • Look up words from thesaurus.com with the thes utility
  • Look up word etymologies from etymonline.com with the etym utility

Quickstart

# look up dictionary definition of the word 'lexicography'
dict lexicography

# look up thesaurus synonyms for the word 'glib'
thes glib

# look up thesaurus antonyms for the word 'glib'
thes -a glib
thes --antonym glib 

# look up etymology for the word 'linguist'
etym linguist

Installation

Dependencies

Development version

The latest development version can be installed directly from GitHub:

vocabpie

Contributing

Feel free to comment, open a bug report or ask for new features on vocabpie issues

If you want to contributing with code:

  • Make sure to add tests (do as I say not as I do :p)
  • Create a pull request

License (MIT License)

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Marc Webbie, http://github.com/marcwebbie

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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