search jisho.org from node and the command line.
there is a promise interface
const jishon = require('jishon')
(async () => {
const magic = await jishon('magic')
console.log(magic.sentences[0])
// {
// japanese: 'くろまほう黒魔法のはなし話をき聞きたいです。がくいん学院ではさわりしかき聞いたことがないんですがきょうみ興味があります。',
// english: 'I\'d like to hear about black magic. I was only told the highlights in the academy, and it interests me.\n — Tatoeba'
// }
})
// or jishon('tea').then(console.log)
there is also a callback interface
jishon('犬', (error, response) => {
const {words} = response
const common = words.find(word => word.tags.includes('common word'))
console.log(common.meanings[0].english) // => dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris)
console.log(common.audio.ogg) // => http://d1vjc5dkcd3yh2.cloudfront.net/audio_ogg/10ce3f5eb7b4a9a03c4dafce2af60e28.ogg
})
arguments:
# with none of these passed, it will return all three
-w return words
-s return sentences
-n return names
-t 'tag' filter words by tag
# get the kanji for the first common word matching 'neko'
$ jishon neko -wt 'common word' | jq -r '.[0].japanese'
猫
# get the full name of the first suziki returned
$ jishon suzuki -n | jq -r '.[0].meanings[0].english'
Suzuki Emi (1985.9.13-)
search in english:
search in japanese:
note that the bottom english
meaning is japanese. the dom structure on jishon
isn't great. i'll improve that in later
ya but you can pipe it through jq
for nice
there is an api, but it doesn't provide everything i need for the projects i'm building with this, so now there's this. it scrapes the websites. fragile as fuck
this will only work until jisho.org
change their layout, but for as long as
i'm using it in my personal projects it'll stay up to date.
good luck everyone