Integrate Golden dict app with Lute

[hieutran-coder]

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Golden dict is app can have many dictionaries. It may be good to integrate it with Lute
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1. I have an idea. Can open Golden dict in webpage like localhost so I could have its link like DeepL or Google translate to use. I'm not sure it can be successful!
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[jzohrab]

Hi @hieutran-coder , thanks for the idea. :-)

A few questions:

• I don't use Goldendict, so I'm not clear on what the benefit of this idea is as opposed to using online dictionaries. Is the benefit that you can more easily control the dictionaries? Better lookups? Have offline dictionary lookups?
• Does Goldendict have an API that we can call? I did a quick search but couldn't see anything offhand. (There is an open issue on their repo, Run a WEB Service on localhost, other software can send HTTP request to query words goldendict/goldendict#618, it doesn't look like it's available yet though. ... also other issues, [to do ] add an embed http server in goldendict xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng#229, command line version goldendict/goldendict#37). Given the age of these issues, perhaps Goldendict isn't the best dictionary to consider! Thoughts?

Since I'm the only dev/contributor on this project (so far), I'm not likely to implement this very soon, if at all, but if you can look into a possible simple API, that will at least simplify things.

Cheers! jz

[hieutran-coder]

• I think Golden dict contain a lot of dictionaries we can add, from which one word we can compare many dictionaries, a definition will be reviewed many times, or have mutiple examples, which make word more clearly, and more remember. When we use online dictionaries, the number of dictionaries will be limited.
• So of course, golden dict have many functions help we learn vocab which depending on the working process of each person to enjoy. It have all your idea benefits and more
• I also don't know if Golden dict has an API or not? but there is one example you can see, here seems to be installed on win, but not for macOS
• ReadLWT
• Thank for your responses

[99MengXin]

Hi @hieutran-coder
I use flask-mdict which available on GitHub for my offline dicts options. It can work fine with LWT.
https://github.com/liuyug/flask-mdict

Another project but I never use, too complicated to me.
https://github.com/jiangnianshun/django-mdict

[jzohrab]

Hi @99MengXin , this is Lute, not LWT, a completely separate project. Does that dictionary also work with lute?

[99MengXin]

Hi @jzohrab, this dictionary is a web service based on flask of python. Hope I'm not wrong. 🙂

Here are some screenshots of the demo.

[hieutran-coder]

Hi @99MengXin, thank you for your solution 👍🏽

[99MengXin]

@hieutran-coder If you'd like to use this solution, please be aware the requirement of flask package is 1.X not 2.X.

[jzohrab]

Golden Dict is too difficult to work with, it looks like that python solution is the way to go. Thanks @99MengXin for the suggestion.

Leaving this open b/c I should try it out and document it on the wiki, it's a good option for travellers.

[jzohrab]

Hi again @99MengXin - in #6 and #5 I've got some notes about integrating other dicts. Where do you get your offline dicts? Are they StarDict, or something else?

[99MengXin]

Like link below, the .mdx file.
Release ECDICT - 28 · skywind3000/ECDICT