An unofficial api to allacronyms.com. Lookup / expand abbreviations. Lookup definitions of abbreviations.
categories: Get a list of categories abbreviations can fall under / be searched under.getTopics: Search for topics an abbreviation / definition falls under.- Keywords : string of keywords for either an abbreviation / definition you want to search for
- Category : The category to search for the topics under
search: Search for an abbreviation / definition ( automatically detected which one you enter )- Keywords : The abbreviation / definition to search for.
- Category : The category to search under.
- Topic : The topic to filter the results by.
- Quantity : the number of abbreviations to return. Defaults to 1.
getRandom: get random abbreviations list
AllAcronyms: the main class for querying the site.Abbreviation: named tuple that stores info related to each abbreviation.- rating : the rating given to an abbreviation by the users of AllAcronyms.com.
- confidence : the confidence ( ratio of this abbreviation's rating to sum of ratings returned in search results )
- definition : the definition of the abbreviation
- abb : the abbreviation
pip install git+git://github.com/ConnorSMaynes/allacronymsfrom allacronyms import AllAcronyms
from tabulate import tabulate
acron = AllAcronyms()
# GET RANDOM ABBREVIATION
Abbs = acron.getRandom()
print( tabulate( Abbs, headers=Abbs[0]._fields ) )
# GET LIST OF AVAILABLE CATEGORIES
Categories = acron.categories
print( tabulate( [ [ x ] for x in Categories ], headers=['Categories'] ) )
# SEARCH FOR DEFINITION
Abb = acron.search( Keywords='FOR'
,Category='Organizations'
,Topic='Friendship' )
if Abb != None:
print( Abb.definition )
# SEARCH FOR ABBREVIATION
Abb = acron.search( Keywords='Application Programming Interface' )
if Abb != None:
print( Abb.abb )
print( Abb.definition )
# SEARCH FOR TOPICS ABBREVIATION / DEFINITION FALLS UNDER
Topics = acron.getTopics( Keywords='Peanut Butter and Jelly' )
print( tabulate( [ [ x ] for x in Topics ], headers=['Topics'] ) )
# SEARCH FOR TOP ABBREVIATIONS / DEFINITIONS
Abbs = acron.search( Keywords='YOLO', Quantity=10 )
if len( Abbs ) > 0:
print( tabulate( Abbs, headers=Abbs[0]._fields ) )This project was inspired by others:
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