wr-0.0.1 Commandline WordReference Lookup

[neurino]

This is another little Bash script I wrote to get quick terms translations in terminal.

Usage:

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# wr
Usage: wr [-c] dictionary term
Term lookup at wordreference.com

-c	return also compounds
-h	show this help

The dictionary that you want to look up your term in is specified by
a combination of the two-letter code for the original language and
the two-letter code for the target language.

For example, if you are looking up for a word from English to French, the
dictionary would be 'enfr', where 'en' stands for English, and 'fr' for French.
The two letter language abbreviations are below:

Language	Abbreviation
========	============
Arabic		ar
Chinese		zh
Czech		cz
English		en
French		fr
Greek		gr
Italian		it
Japanese	ja
Korean		ko
Polish		pl
Portuguese	pt
Romanian	ro
Spanish		es
Turkish		tr

You can install the pet that will put script in /usr/local/bin or extract it from the tar.gz and put it where you want in your PATH (for example ~/my-apllications/bin) or just call it as ./wr.

Script is compilant with Wordreference API TOS and approved from its staff.

[L18L]

Hi neurino,
nice script.
Searching for bugs I have found:

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# ./wr ende hello
http://www.wordreference.com/ende/hallo
© WordReference.com
# ./wr deen hallo
Unknown dictionary
http://www.wordreference.com/deen/hallo
© WordReference.com
# 

strange:
deen unknown
ende nothing

At the website it is OK.

[neurino]

Hi L18L,

they're not supposed to be bugs: the API gives no access to ALL dictionaries, as stared by their API page too.

As you can see in Usage German dictionary is not available.

The "Unknown dictionary" is a message generated by my script in case of 404 error returned.

My luck is I need it for english-to-italian and back and it works flawlessly.

Thanks for testing anyway.

[L18L]

Hi L18L,

they're not supposed to be bugs: the API gives no access to ALL dictionaries, as stared by their API page too.

The "Unknown dictionary" is a message generated by my script in case of 404 error returned.

My luck is I need it for english-to-italian and back and it works flawlessly.

Thanks for testing anyway.

Does that mean that your API key is valid for English and Italiano only

[neurino]

Since no one asked me for a dictionary on API registration I'm quite sure it's not...

Also english-to-arabian won't work in that case... (see screenshot)

[L18L]

Since no one asked me for a dictionary on API registration I'm quite sure it's not...

Also english-to-arabian won't work in that case... (see screenshot)

Do you have an explanation for my results of en to de and de to en ?

[neurino]

Do you have an explanation for my results of en to de and de to en ?

Yes and it's in my first answer to your post:

the API gives no access to ALL dictionaries.

Didi you read the page I linked?

This is what the API returns for your request "ende hello":

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{
"Lines" : "End Reached", "END" : true
}

Not to mention the API gives an error for "deen hallo" as unknown dictionary.

What am I supposed to return then?

C'mon...

[L18L]

Yes, I did read the API page and I cannot suggest anything but changing your Subject description.

[neurino]

I don't expect this script to be widely used but I kindly ask you to not fill this thread with unuseful flames (do you see German dictionary in Usage? I dont so it's not expected to work), thank you.

[L18L]

I am hoping that you will understand this language

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#dictionary is first arg
dict="$1"

#check input language pair
dict1="${dict:0:2} "
OK=0
 [ "`echo 'ar zh cz en fr gr it ja ko pl pt ro es tr ' | grep $dict1 `" != "" ] && OK=1
if [ $OK -ne 1 ]; then
 usage
 exit 2
fi 
dict2=${dict:2:2}
OK=0
 [ "`echo 'ar zh cz en fr gr it ja ko pl pt ro es tr ' | grep $dict2 `" != "" ] && OK=1
if [ $OK -ne 1 ]; then
 usage
 exit 2
fi
 
#remove dictionary from args

[neurino]

I am hoping that you will understand this language

L18L as you can see my script is released under GPL so you are free to fork from it and make your own version, just changing its name, and distribute it as I did.

Also not all possible combinations in usage explained languages are available (I don't expect to work something like tukish to polish but havent tested tho) so your add is overkill to me since it does not guarantee at all that, if test passes, a translation is provided.

I won't add it to my script anyway, as I wrote, you are free to make your own version and release it under GPL rules and, hopefully, start your own thread here on the forum.

Cheers

P.S.: you don't need to bother with grep to check if a string is substring of another:

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#dicts='ar zh cz en fr gr it ja ko pl pt ro es tr '
# [[ "$dicts" =~ "en" ]] && echo yes || echo no
yes
# [[ "$dicts" =~ "de" ]] && echo yes || echo no
no