Ydict-client NPM

ydict-client

A command-line interface to Yahoo's online English-Chinese dictionary.

Features

Displaying definitions in color
Highlighting keywords and their variants
Auto-correcting spelling

Screenshot

ydict-client

Installation

$ npm install -g ydict-client

Usage

$ ydict-client <word or phrase>

Examples

$ ydict-client word
$ ydict-client look up

API

To use it programmatically:

var ydictClient = require('ydict-client');

ydictClient('word', function(error, definition) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(JSON.stringify(definition));
});

Tests

$ npm install
$ npm test

Credits

I'd been using ydict from Homebrew until it ceased to work. I decided to maintain my own version to avoid this situation. Inspiration and code come from chunghe/ydict and sayuan/ydict.js. Thank you all!