ox

Go CLI for the Oxford Dictionary API

NOTE: The Oxford Dictionary does support far less languages then I thought. So contrary to the initial plan, the tool will primarly serve as an English Dictionary

Setup

1. Create your Oxford Dictionaries Developer Account
2. Find your API credentials
3. Modify api.go.template, insert your credentials and save it as api.go
4. Build the CLI tool: go build cmd/ox.go

Usage (currently implemented)

Look up the word "beer" in the English dictionary:

ox -lang en beer

English is the default language, so you can just type:

ox beer

Look up the word "trabajo" in the Spanish dictionary:

ox -lang es trabajo

Usage (to be implemented)

Dictionary Lookup

Look up the word "television" in the English dictionary:

ox dict -lang en television

Look up the word "достопримечательность" in the Russian dictionary:

ox dict -lang ru достопримечательность

Short syantax:

ox dict -l en television
ox dict -l ru достопримечательность

Translation

Translate the English word "beer" to German:

ox trans -from en -to de beer

Translate the French word "chien" to Russian:

ox trans -from fr -to ru chien

Short syntax:

ox trans -f en -t de beer
ox trans -f fr -t ru chien

Misc

List available languages:

ox langs