How do I host a local clone?

[HyperCodec]

I tried cloning the repo and doing npm i and node app.js, but whenever I try to poll any word, it always gives the definition not found error. What do I need to do to get it running properly?

[HyperCodec]

looks like there's a bad request in queryInternet:

Response {
  size: 0,
  timeout: 0,
  [Symbol(Body internals)]: {
    body: PassThrough {
      _events: [Object],
      _readableState: [ReadableState],
      _writableState: [WritableState],
      allowHalfOpen: true,
      _maxListeners: undefined,
      _eventsCount: 5,
      [Symbol(shapeMode)]: true,
      [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
      [Symbol(kCallback)]: null
    },
    disturbed: false,
    error: null
  },
  [Symbol(Response internals)]: {
    url: 'https://www.google.com/async/callback:5493?fc=ErUBCndBTlVfTnFUN29LdXdNSlQ2VlZoWUIwWE1HaElOclFNU29TOFF4ZGxGbV9zbzA3YmQ2NnJyQXlHNVlrb3l3OXgtREpRbXpNZ0M1NWZPeFo4NjQyVlA3S2ZQOHpYa292MFBMaDQweGRNQjR4eTlld1E4bDlCbXFJMBIWU2JzSllkLVpHc3J5OVFPb3Q2aVlDZxoiQU9NWVJ3QmU2cHRlbjZEZmw5U0lXT1lOR3hsM2xBWGFldw&fcv=3&async=term%3Ahello%2Ccorpus%3Aen%2Chhdr%3Atrue%2Chwdgt%3Atrue%2Cwfp%3Atrue%2Cttl%3A%2Ctsl%3A%2Cptl%3A',
    status: 400,
    statusText: 'Bad Request',
    headers: Headers { [Symbol(map)]: [Object: null prototype] },
    counter: 0
  }
}

[KikkiZ]

I've read all code in this repo. I found this repo is used to build a Web Service Server (API server). There is a function named queryInternet in the /modules/dictionary.js, like I'll show below.

async function queryInternet (word, language) {
	let url = new URL('https://www.google.com/async/callback:5493');

	url.searchParams.set('fc', 'ErUBCndBTlVfTnFUN29LdXdNSlQ2VlZoWUIwWE1HaElOclFNU29TOFF4ZGxGbV9zbzA3YmQ2NnJyQXlHNVlrb3l3OXgtREpRbXpNZ0M1NWZPeFo4NjQyVlA3S2ZQOHpYa292MFBMaDQweGRNQjR4eTlld1E4bDlCbXFJMBIWU2JzSllkLVpHc3J5OVFPb3Q2aVlDZxoiQU9NWVJ3QmU2cHRlbjZEZmw5U0lXT1lOR3hsM2xBWGFldw');
	url.searchParams.set('fcv', '3');
	url.searchParams.set('async', `term:${encodeURIComponent(word)},corpus:${language},hhdr:true,hwdgt:true,wfp:true,ttl:,tsl:,ptl:`);

	url = url.toString();

	let response = await fetch(url, {
		agent: httpsAgent,
		headers: new fetch.Headers({
			"accept": "*/*",
			"accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
			"accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
			"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36"
		})
	});

	// Some extraneous logical code was omitted

	return single_results;
}

This function uses some external API, and this API appears to be private.

As a result, it looks like this repo will never succeed in an on-premise deployment, because we have no way of knowing how the author maintains the dictionary data.