What hero will create the dictionary.com command 🥺

[Emily]

Here are a few reasons as to why it hasn’t happened yet:

1. dictionary.com doesn’t have an open API
2. cambridge.org has one, but it’s costly
3. merriam-webster.com has a free one, but it’s very limited
4. no other service has an open and free API (unless you know one we don’t?)
5. most of us who could do it don’t have the time

If you want it this badly, either make it yourself, or hire someone to do the work and maintenance.

---

Edit: someone found a free API without limitations:

Create a command to find word meanings in dictionary

Hey @Clauwasaki! You need to use $(eval), $(urlfetch), and $(query), if you don’t know what these do, please read the documentation. You also need to use the documentation of the API you gave us, you’ll notice the API output is in JSON, the example given allows us to figure out how to exploit it with Javascript, but we could have gotten the same information by just trying the API in the browser. With all that said, here’s the command to get the first result of any single word search: $(eval …