Fetching Dictionary Definitions For Words

Questions
1

Does anyone know how to fetch the definitions for different words? Is there a http request url that exists?

2

Just load the search page on any dictionary website with a word. Like this:

word = "Dictionary"
http.request("http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Dictionary", success, fail)

Note that for this website it has to have a capital first letter, so you can do something like this:

word = "dIcTiOnArY"
lword = word:lower()
word = string.upper(lword:sub(1, 1)) .. string.lower(lword:sub(2, lword:len()))
3

This is just returning a large piece of script though.

4

You have to parse the script and pull out what you want

5

Okay, Thanks!

6

@austinmccoy Here’s a quick example.


function setup()
    word="Dictionary"
    http.request("http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/"..word, success, fail)
end

function success(data,status,headers)
    a=string.find(data,'name="description"')
    b=string.find(data,"See more.",a)
    print(string.sub(data,a+27,b-1))
end
7

Thanks