This is a python wrapper around the Oxford Dictionary API. The Oxford API offers a free plan with up to 3,000 requests per month with full access to Oxford Dictionaries data, although you will need to register for an API key. Sign up here.

In addition to the API wrapper a caching structure is provided for requesting entries from APIv2 and persisting the results such that the API is not queried multiple times for the already checked word.

• git clone [email protected]:RafaelBroseghini/OxfordAPI.git
• cd OxfordAPI
• python OxfordDictionaries.py

The code below shows how to query APIv2 for definitions of word 'staple'.

from oxforddictionaries.caching_language_dictionary import CachingLanguageDictionary
from oxforddictionaries.credentials import APPLICATION_ID, APPLICATION_KEY
from oxforddictionaries.oxford_api_v2 import OxfordApiV2

if __name__ == "__main__":
    oxford_api = OxfordApiV2(APPLICATION_ID, APPLICATION_KEY)
    caching_language_dictionary = CachingLanguageDictionary(oxford_api, 'en-gb')
    result = caching_language_dictionary.get_definitions("staple")
    print(result)

Note: before using it you need to create python file credentials.py in oxforddictionaries directory of the following structure:

# this file is part of git ignore, replace with your API credentials
APPLICATION_ID = ""
APPLICATION_KEY = ""

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