How to use to Google Dictionary as an API? [closed]

Question

Because the Google Dictionary API is deprecated (e.g., following)

http://www.google.com/dictionary/json?callback=a&sl=en&tl=en&q=love 

and has been replaced with define (e.g., following)

https://www.google.com/#q=define+love 

Does anybody know how to use/invoke the "Google define" API in java?

Here is the chrome extension which does similar thing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-by-goog/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja 

As an alternative, are there any open source dictionary APIs? I found Oxford (OED), Cambridge, Merriam-Webster, Wordnik APIs which provide APIs in subscription models.

Also found Wordnet 3.1 which is pretty old. Not sure if it being updated or not.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, like others have said, the Google Dictionary API is deprecated.

As I needed a Google Dictionary API for my project, I decided to create one.

I scraped the web page for the URL https://www.google.com/#q=define+term where term is any word you want to get meaning of, and created the API. You can find it here.

How to use

The basic syntax of a URL request to the API is shown below:

https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/<--language_code-->/<--word-->

As an example, to get definition of English word hello, you can send request to:

https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/hello

The API also provides other meanings of the word, example sentences, and synonyms, if any.

If you want me to include any other details, please comment and I will happily extend the API to cover your needs.

The source code is on GitHub.