Word definition being returned as XML by Wordnik.

[Dean Kitson]

I am testing to see if a word and corresponding word type (e.g. noun, verb, etc) exist by sending a request to Wordnik for a definition. My code is working but get a definition if the word and word type exist in XML format. Is there a way of getting a definition as a text string?

[Erin McKean]

Hi Dean! Could you share what call you're using, exactly?

Thanks!

Erin

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I am testing to see if a word and corresponding word type (e.g. noun, verb, etc) exist by sending a request to Wordnik for a definition. My code is working but get a definition if the word and word type exist in XML format. Is there a way of getting a definition as a text string?

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[Dean Kitson]

Hi Erin,

Below is a copy of the method in Python that I am using to get a definition of a word of a word type (noun, verb, etc).

def lookUpWord(word, wordType):

    apiUrl = 'http://api.wordnik.com/v4'

#apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY HERE'

    apiKey = '5z2ema7aq0lqbekymzc6kuky2d9wzugfvetbl2dzrajok86a3'

    client = swagger.ApiClient(apiKey, apiUrl)

    wordApi = WordApi.WordApi(client)

#    word = input("Word to look up: ")

#    pOSpeech = input("Part of speech: ")

    definitions = wordApi.getDefinitions(word,

                                     partOfSpeech=wordType,

                                     sourceDictionaries='wiktionary',

                                     limit=3)

   

    return definitions[0].text

It works but the definition is in XML format, whereas I am wanting a text string.

Best Regards,

Dean Kitson.

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[Erin McKean]

Hi Dean, unfortunately it looks like you shared your live API key with this large group -- I've reset your key and you can find your new key on your API Dashboard (log in to your Wordnik user page and there will be a link to your dashboard on that page).

When I ran your with the word 'cat' and partOfSpeech noun I got "A <xref>catamaran</xref>." Is that the kind of output you're seeing?

Some of the definitions (especially from Wiktionary) do have some tags in them (mostly <xref>), but they are not in XML format. Unfortunately we do not have a feature that will strip these tags for you at this time. I recommend using regular expressions (or better yet, a library such as Beautiful Soup) to remove these tags.

Thank you for using Wordnik!

Yours,

Erin

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