sleepybandit/oxford-dictionary

A nodeJS wrapper for using the oxforddictionary.com V2 REST API.

oxford-dictionary's Issues

Parsing JSON Data

what is the structure or format to extract only "definitions" from the array? and have it log in console? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cross-Origin Request Blocked

Using snippet provided, I'm getting this error:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'http://192.168.0.10:8080/sockjs-node/info?t=1573126923594' from origin 'http://localhost:8080' has been blocked by CORS policy: The value of the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header in the response must not be the wildcard '*' when the request's credentials mode is 'include'. The credentials mode of requests initiated by the XMLHttpRequest is controlled by the withCredentials attribute.

Any idea how to solve that issue?

NPM setup code has breaking issue which always returns error 500

In the NPM package page, the code in the setup section has this:
var config = { app_id : "YOUR_OXFORD_ACCOUNT_APP_ID", app_key : "YOUR_OXFORD_ACCOUNT_APP_KEY", source_lang : "en" };

This always returns { status_code: 500, status_text: 'JSON Parse Failed' } because since version 2 of the API english GB and US have separate dataset names. This can be seen in the code of the actual package, where the value for that variable is defaulted to en-us. It can be fixed by changing the value to "en-us" or "en-gb" in your index file.

The NPM page should be updated with this little correction in order to prevent people from encountering this silly mistake.

OxfordDictionary / OxfordDictionaries?

This API is for which?

I cannot find oxforddictionary.com to retrieve API key

How to get definitions?

Hey Sleepy,

I am having issues on searching for definitions with the module.

When I use :
var lookup = dict.definitions("programming");

lookup.then(function(res) {
console.log(res);
},
function(err) {
console.log(err);
});

In functon variable I receive:

{ metadata: { provider: 'Oxford University Press' },
results:
[ { id: 'programming',
language: 'en',
lexicalEntries: [Array],
type: 'headword',
word: 'programming' } ] }

So where are the definitions?

When I switch the method to .find, like this:

var lookup = dict.find("programming");

I receive the same as the other method:

{ metadata: { provider: 'Oxford University Press' },
results:
[ { id: 'programming',
language: 'en',
lexicalEntries: [Array],
type: 'headword',
word: 'programming' } ] }

Can you help figure this out.
Thanks

Find method returning 500 error

Change line 15 from this:
var path = validate('/api/v1/entries/', props, this, 'entries');
to this:
var path = validate('/api/v1/entries/', props, this);

Is this project maintained?

I like this project very much, but I am not sure if it is maintained.

I see that @nandychu added a commit into his/her fork. If this project is maintained, a PR should be opened for it to merge. Also I myself have some suggestions that could be included.

Thanks for the awesome project! 😉

403 forbidden

I am using this on my localhost, I am getting 'Authentication parameters missing' as a response. Is it a problem with my id and key?

500 Error

Hey Sleepy,
Amazing work with the wrapper. I am getting a 500 error with “error parsing json string” when I use the directions from the readme. Could you please look into this?
Thanks x