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Ed SummersTIL that there is a URI scheme for dictionaries, and curl supports it:
curl dict://dict.org/define:mastodon
brennen@edsu i sort of forgot that the url scheme exists, but i use the dict client and dict.org on like a daily basis. it is such an amazing resource.
Frost, wolf of winter 🐺🎄
@edsu Oh hey! We use dictd /locally/ for our dictionary (but with the dict client program). Didn't know there was a URI scheme and shit. :3
Malinux@edsu
The output doesn't look like it's meant for humans, so I always pipe it into a markdown reader.
wotsa ()
{
def="$(curl -s dict://dict.org/define:$1: | grep -vP '^\d\d\d ')";
if [ "$def" = "" ]; then
echo no definition;
else
echo "$def" | mdcat -p;
fi
}
@malin I like it! And I didn't know about mdcat -- now I'm doing the same.
I dropped the -P for the grep since that's not available on MacOS with installing GNU grep. It still seems to work ok?
@edsu The '-P' is for perl-like regex, so I can remove (-v) lines starting with (^) three digits (\d\d\d).
But there are loads of other ways of doing the same thing.
@malin yeah, the regex works on MacOS without it.
Jakob Voß@edsu @malin too sad Wikimedia projects don't support DICT protocol: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T31229
Sammy (is just a fox 🦊)
Seirdy
xrvs
Brett Stauffer 🌈@malin @edsu
On definitions with indented content I was getting formatting garbage displayed with mdcat, so I tried bat ( https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/ ) with plain style instead and got much better results:
On definitions with indented content I was getting formatting garbage displayed with mdcat, so I tried bat ( https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/ ) with plain style instead and got much better results:
Amin Girasol@fluidlogic @edsu there are multiple? I'm on whatever is in the AUR. Hopefully rust.
4 "actually its only pyromania if i do it again" censord 
mako
Daya 
@edsu thank you, nice to know!
Guy Lateur@edsu Yeah, I always felt there was something fishy about their molar teeth..
AL@edsu
Thanks for this info. I started down the rabbit hole and found the wiki page that describes this project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT
I'm adding this to my list of cool information sources.
now back to what I was planning on doing this morning:-)
@edsu i know the former, but not the latter, noice
@edsu Thank you for this. Life changing, spirit enhancing.
Feoh@edsu OK this made my day! So cool! :)
is sincerely an amazing project. Kudos to the maintainers!
@edsu Interestingly, if you plug this into Firefox or Safari on MacOS it will bring up the Dictionary application, but won't seed it with the query.
wauz
Aral Balkan
Stewart Russell@edsu we used to use that at the dictionary publisher I worked for. We had to be terribly careful not to let our internal databases out into the wild
zl2tod@edsu
Second go delivers a screed from the CIA World Factbook 2002.
Second go delivers a screed from the CIA World Factbook 2002.
pavo@edsu this exists and yet the feed:// uri scheme never caught on! Opening a feed in a feed reader is such a perfect use case for a uri scheme and i'm so mad about this.
Farooq Karimi Zadeh
b4ux1t3 
#1️⃣@edsu wow! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT
That's...Really cool. And now I wonder if there are #DotNet libraries for it, and, if not, I kinda wanna write one.
Edit: Golang supports it out of the box: https://github.com/golang/net/blob/master/dict/dict.go
I wonder what other languages have it in the std lib.
dazfuller 
@edsu how am I only just finding out about this 
Felix 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇺🇦