dictcc-cli

Quickly look up translations without relying on the browser. This script is mostly just a fancy table formatter which happens to get it's data for formatting from dict.cc.

Features:

1. very simple
2. scales with respect to terminal width

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Why

I wanted a tool for the most convenient and quick access to vocab through my beloved cli.

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How to setup

1. Edit the shebang at the top of the file to use the python interpreter of your choice.

2. Install dependencies (fake_headers, requests, beautifulsoup4) with pip install -r requirements.txt.

3. I recommend aliasing search_dict_cc.py in an rc-file of your shell in one of the following two ways.

   alias dict="/usr/bin/python313 $path_to/search_dict_cc.py "
   function dict() { "$path_to/search_dict_cc.py" "$@" }

4. As per my own preference, this script defaults to DE/EN as languages, which are simply set as DEFAULT_LANG1 and DEFAULT_LANG2 constants in the script. Modify them as needed!

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How to use

# regular lookup
dict word

# to start with language selector before search use -l (--language) toggle
dict word -l

# set -f (--full) toggle if default 20 line table is too short 
dict word -f