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Quickly thrown together CLI tool for Jisho requests
const cmdr = require('commander'),
request = require('request')
cmdr
.option('-t, --text [value]')
.option('-c, --common')
.parse(process.argv);
const Jisho = 'http://jisho.org/api/v1/search/words?keyword='
request(Jisho+encodeURIComponent(cmdr.text), function (error, response, html) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
let data = (JSON.parse(response.body).data)
data.forEach(c=>{if(!cmdr.common||c.is_common){
console.log( c.japanese.map(_c=>([_c.word,_c.reading].filter(f=>!!f).join(' – '))).join(', ') )
console.log( ` • ${c.senses.map(_c=>_c.parts_of_speech).join(', ')}${!c.is_common?' (uncommon)':''}` )
console.log( ` • Meaning: ${c.senses.map(_c=>(_c.english_definitions).map(_c=>('"'+_c+'"')).join(', '))}` )
console.log( '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' )
}})
}
})
//Used like: `node jisho -t "watashi" -c`
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