An offline CLI dictionary written in rust, using data from wiktionary.
Install the Rust toolchain: https://rustup.rs
$ cargo install --git https://github.com/Lodobo/rdict# This will download a jsonl file to ~/.local/share/rdict
$ rdict download-json# This will create a .db file to ~/.local/share/rdict
$ rdict json-to-db| Options | Description |
|---|---|
| -w [WORD] | Search word |
| --help | Print help |
| -V | Print version |
- Tatu Ylonen's Wiktextract: A utility for extracting data from wiktionary. The lexical data used by rdict comes from dumps provided by Ylonen on kaikki.org
Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022.
- gdict: Another version of this software written in go.