wordinfo

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wordinfo is a CLI tool to get information of words from web, including pronunciation, meaning, examples, etc.

It's the complement of bakadict: bakadict looks up words from local dictionary, while wordinfo gets word information from the web; bakadict supports only Japanese, while wordinfo supports multiple languages.

wordinfo allows you to write your own CSS Selector to adapt word search to different languages and websites.

Installation

Go to Releases to download the platform-specific executable, or use bpm to install it.

Usage

Usage: wordinfo.exe [OPTIONS] <WORDS>...
       wordinfo.exe <COMMAND>

Commands:
  config  config wordinfo, (not yet implemented)
  export  Export configuration file
  help    Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Arguments:
  <WORDS>...  words to look up

Options:
  -e, --english              English (default)
  -j, --japanese             Japanese
  -s, --selector <SELECTOR>  Which selector to use
  -n, --no-url               Do not output url
  -h, --help                 Print help
  -V, --version              Print version

Examples:
wordinfo apple          # Query for English `apple`, = wordinfo -e apple
wordinfo -j すき        # Query Japanese `すき`, = wordinfo -j suki.
wordinfo -s oxf apple   # Specify to query apple using the oxford selector with abbreviation.
wordinfo show           # Show all available selectors.

wordinfo supports multiple languages, English is used by default. When querying Japanese, you can convert kana by typing romanization.

Selector specifying can be abbreviated, e.g. wordinfo -s oxf ... is equivalent to wordinfo -s oxford ... .

Configuration

Run wordinfo export to export the default configuration file to ~/.config/wordinfo.json (Windows: %userprofile%/.config/wordinfo.json), and then edit the configuration items. You can choose json, toml, yaml as the exported configuration format.

The currently adjustable items are:

Key	Contents
default_language	Default language
color	Default color for each section of output
en	English CSS Selectors
jp	Japanese CSS Selectors
other_languages	Other languages and their CSS Selectors
delimiter_between_paragraphs	Separators for parts within each word
delimiter_between_words	Separators between words

To adjust the default CSS Selector used, simply put it at the top of the current language array.

If you need to add a CSS Selector for a new language, you can change other_languages to refer to the following form (<lang> is the language identifier).

"other_languages": {
    "<lang>": [
      ... Selectors
    ]
  }