What does that word mean?

Commandline tool for looking up words.

Simply launch the script with your query like so:

Definition

py wordsearch.py query

Synonym

py wordsearch.py -s query

The script will then google it for you and look through supported sites for your answer

Supported sites

Word definitions

English

• en.wikipedia.org
• merriam-webster.com
• dictionary.com
• thefreedictionary.com
• vocabulary.com

Danish

• ordnet.dk
• da.wikipedia.org
• sproget.dk

Synonyms

English

• thesaurus.com
• synonym.com

Sorting languages

To only show english results edit line 3 in config.ini to change language sorting like so:

before:

[DEFAULT]
selector = p
lang = all

after:

[DEFAULT]
selector = p
lang = en

Output looking weird?

Change your consoles encoding to UTF-8 and it should be solved. On windows you can change your encoding with the following command:

chcp 65001

Requirements

You can install requirements with pip

py -m pip install -r requirements.txt

• BeautifulSoup4
• Requests