duden-search-api

A Node.js Duden.de 'API' (website scraper for searching of german words on duden.de)

Install

npm i duden-search-api --save

Usage

const DudenSearchApi = require( "duden-search-api" );
 
let instance = new DudenSearchApi();
 
instance.searchWord( "gestern" ).then( ( result ) => {
    console.log( result );
} ).catch( ( error ) => {
    console.log( error );
} );

The result array

The resulted return value is in the following scheme:

[
    {
        "word": "gestern",
        "props": {
            "wordClass": "Adverb",
            "hyphenation": [
                "ges",
                "tern"
            ],
            "meanings": [
                "an dem Tag, der dem heutigen unmittelbar vorausgegangen ist",
                "früher"
            ],
            "ancestry": "mittelhochdeutsch gester(n), althochdeutsch gesteron, eigentlich = am anderen Tag"
        }
    }
]

Todo

• simple word search
• extend word results (distribution, hyphenation, ancestry, examples)
• documentation ;)
• …