wordreference-definition-api

Example with cache

const { wrDefinition } = require('wordreference-definition-api')
let def = wrDefinition()

console.time('scream')
def.define('scream').then(data => {
    console.log(data)
    console.timeEnd('scream')
    console.time('screamCache')
    def.define('scream').then(() => {
        console.timeEnd('screamCache')
    })
})

/* OUTPUTS:
[{
    class: "v.",
    defs: [
        { 
            def: "to make a loud, sharp cry: ", 
            examples: [ "[no object]screamed with fright.", ] 
        },
    ]
}]
scream: 2500.78ms
got from cache
screamCache: 27.009ms
*/

Simple documentation

//defaults
let definition = wrDefinition({cache: {
    dir: path.join(__dirname, 'cache'), //you can choose which directory you want to save the cache
    keyEncoding: 'utf8', //the key of the cache
    valueEncoding: 'json', //store the cache as json
    use: true //wheter you want to use cache or not
}, 
logs: false,  //shows logs on the console
URL: 'https://www.wordreference.com/definition/' //just in case they change the routes, I hope they don't change the html
})

//wrDefinition returns Definition class, those are the methods

definition.define(word) //return Promise, if it don't find any word, resolve empty array 

definition.clearCache(word) //remove one word from the cache

definition.clearCache() //clean the entire cache

Questions:

What is it ?

This is a js api that grabs/scrap definitions of a given word from wordreference

Is it ready for production ?

I'm using this on my personal software, but I don't guarantee that you are going to get definition for all words, if the word exists on their website

Can I use it in a browser ?

This is not intended to be used on the browser, an alternative would be to use the old version 2 of this API, please test the 2 version of this software before using it

Cache

This api contains a built-in cache created with leveldb, you can choose to not use this cache by passing extra arguments, see the docs.