Don't follow "Did you mean '...'?" redirection

[fin0]

I used linguee-api to search for some translations from English to German and experienced the following problem:
If a word is rare and there is an alternative which is syntactically close and much more frequently used in the language, Linguee offers a "Did you mean '...'?" link at the top of the search results. If this is the case, linguee-api gives the result of the redirection and not the one of the searched word.
Examples (given by the URL linguee-api is querying):
https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?query=wit&ajax=1
https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?query=nod&ajax=1

I guess this is not by intention? I don't know, if this behavior occurs on all cases where the result is prefixed with a "Did you mean '...'?" question.

Thanks in advance :)

[imankulov]

Oh, thanks for reporting. Great catch!

I implemented automatic following for redirects, assuming that it would only fire on words without translations (mostly typos.) The "wit" case provides a counter-example --- a page having both translations and a suggestion.

It would probably make sense to introduce a new "follow_corrections" option having three variants.

• follow_corrections=always: Unconditionally follow a correction when finding one. Use it as the default option for backward compatibility.
• follow_corrections=never: Ignore corrections, and try to parse current text.
• follow_corrections=on_empty_translations: Parse the result and return if it has translations. If it has no translations, see if there's a correction. If correction is found, follow it.

Does it make sense, @fin0? Please let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions before I start implementing the follow_corrections flag. Thanks!

[imankulov]

Alright, the flag is implemented, as described above. The changes are live on the testing server.

always follow corrections (default and backward-compatible behavior)

follow only on empty translations

[fin0]

Hello @imankulov, wow that was fast! Thanks a lot for your quick response and implementation. Will do further testing once it is merged into master, but everything looks perfect already :)

[imankulov]

Hey @fin0, for the record, it's already merged with the master branch.