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zim of Webster's 1913
From @amirh123123 on August 17, 2018 8:44
this address https://www.websters1913.com/
Copied from original issue: openzim/mwoffliner#362
From @Popolechien on August 17, 2018 9:2
Looks like it's legit public domain: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Webster%27s_Dictionary,_1913
Reopening, this ZIM has never been published on library due to bad name + probably ZIM cannot work, looks like it is only a search box with content on the server, not crawlable with zimit.
Recipe fixed https://farm.openzim.org/recipes/websters1913_en_all Still troubleshooting
I confirm we need a scraper for this website.
Looks like we can maybe get all defs from the search engine of https://www.websters1913.com/ to get the whole dictionary.
Search results are limited to 100, but with 1 letter we get "strange" words with spaces first, and then we can explore all two letters combinations.
E.g. :
- https://www.websters1913.com/api/v1/words?q=a
- https://www.websters1913.com/api/v1/words?q=aa
- https://www.websters1913.com/api/v1/words?q=ab
- https://www.websters1913.com/api/v1/words?q=ac
- ...
- https://www.websters1913.com/api/v1/words?q=b
- https://www.websters1913.com/api/v1/words?q=ba
- https://www.websters1913.com/api/v1/words?q=bb
- ...
And then push all this to a ZIM, add a JS-based search engine or any other kind of front page, reuse CSS et voila