├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── word-lookup.gif
└── word-lookup.sh


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 1 | MIT License
 2 | 
 3 | Copyright (c) 2021 Alexander G. Nielsen
 4 | 
 5 | Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 6 | of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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/README.md:
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 1 | # word-lookup 📚
 2 | 
 3 | ![](https://github.com/4lgn/word-lookup/raw/master/word-lookup.gif)
 4 | 
 5 | ## Requirements
 6 | 
 7 | - [xclip](https://github.com/astrand/xclip) (only for X11)
 8 | - [wl-clipboard](https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard) (only for wayland)
 9 | - [dunst](https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst)
10 | 
11 | ## License
12 | 
13 | Copyright (c) 2021 Alexander G. Nielsen. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/4lgn/word-lookup/blob/master/LICENSE) for details.
14 | 


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/word-lookup.sh:
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 1 | #!/bin/sh
 2 | 
 3 | usage(){
 4 | 	echo "Usage: $(basename "$0") [-h]
 5 | 	Looks up the definition of currently selected word.
 6 | 	-w: Use the wayland clipboard (instead of X11) "
 7 | 
 8 | }
 9 | 
10 | USEWAYLAND=false
11 | 
12 | while getopts 'hw' c
13 | do
14 | 	case $c in
15 | 		h) usage; exit ;;
16 | 		w) USEWAYLAND=true ;;
17 | 		*) usage; exit 1 ;;
18 | 	esac
19 | done
20 | 
21 | shift $((OPTIND-1))
22 | 
23 | if [ $USEWAYLAND = true ]
24 | then
25 | 	word=$(wl-paste -p)
26 | else
27 | 	word=$(xclip -o)
28 | fi
29 | 
30 | res=$(curl -s "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en_US/$word")
31 | regex=$'"definition":"\K(.*?)(?=")'
32 | definitions=$(echo "$res" | grep -Po "$regex")
33 | separatedDefinition=$(sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\n\n/g' <<< "$definitions")
34 | notify-send -a "word-lookup" "$word" "$separatedDefinition"
35 | 


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