z-gong/dict-api

API for offline dictionaries

dict-api

A web service for looking up definitions from MDX/MDD dict files.

It also serves as a backend for ODH (online dictionary helper) plugin for chrome.

English word morphology is supported through hunspell.

Usage

1. Put mdx/mdd files under data/mdx/
2. Start web service by flask run
3. Query words by accessing http://localhost:5000/<WORD> e.g. http://localhost:5000/draw
4. To disable JavaScript, access http://localhost:5000/nojs/<WORD>

Acknowledgement

Reverse-engineering of the mdx format
https://github.com/csarron/mdict-analysis

Encryption support
https://github.com/zhansliu/writemdict

Index support
https://github.com/mmjang/mdict-query