Goldendict: command line version

Created on 9 Aug 2011 · 36Comments · Source: goldendict/goldendict

in addtion to the gui interface would it be possible to adapt the existing code to provide a cli interface ?

stardict has one, called sdcv, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sdcv

This is something tremendously useful, for use in scripts, and integrate with text processing utilities (grep, awk sed etc)

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as the author hasn't replied, i think the best option is to use sdcv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sdcv

monolithpl on 22 Oct 2017

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I have the same question too.

yangyingchao on 22 Feb 2012

Same here. This would be great. :)

aksr on 28 Feb 2012

RFDAJE on 28 Jun 2012

yeah, it would be great

vazgen on 27 Aug 2012

Please clarify. GoldenDict supports many different dictionary formats, and they include audio, images, videos, advanced HTML formatting, etc. This is close to impossible to render in the console.

Or do you mean that GoldenDict needs console command line interface that launches the UI with appropriate word? This is already implemented, AFAIK. Just invoke goldendict "you_word_here".

Tvangeste on 30 Jan 2013

As a start we could have a cmd line version that allowed to display the results in plain text (no images, videos or links) and a switch to output the raw html.
Later we could add additional option so the program could output the embedded resources in binary to the stdout, or encode the binary in a URI in base64 encoding or just print their URI to the resource.

chulai on 30 Jan 2013

Bump.

omeid on 3 Jun 2013

Bump. Still relevant.

wildeyes on 23 Aug 2013

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Marking as Popular since many users requested. I am still surprised that folks need that. :)

Tvangeste on 23 Aug 2013

Some people are just keyboard junkies. They love their CLI. This also makes integration really easy, specially in *nix environment.

omeid on 24 Aug 2013

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This is something tremendously useful, for use in scripts, and integrate with text processing utilities (grep, awk sed etc)

I think what the OP is looking for is a way to exact res from the dictionaries. That sounds more like a parser with look-up interface. How the content is presented is not important at all.

zcattacz on 24 Aug 2013

Bump.

naszar on 6 Feb 2014

viktor-arsanov on 18 Feb 2014

I also want this feature. +1

SuperBo on 25 Mar 2014

I would like this feature to be able to implement osX dashboard widget for goldendict

maslennikov on 20 Jun 2014

Necrobump!! Actually it's a really good feature so that it could be used in Vim/Emacs.

Firef0x on 24 Jun 2014

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Still looking forward to this...

omeid on 24 Jun 2014

bump

clojens on 19 Sep 2014

:+1: :accept: :fire: :up: :cool: :orange_book:
Necrobump!! Actually it's a really good feature so that it could be used in Naughty of Awesome WM.

Firef0x on 19 Sep 2014

I was temped to start filtering stdout messages with sed but didn't. At the least a switch or two to print without e.g. the http header data would be nice. I guess, if available, a computer readable format is cool, I've seen some dicts with extensive HTML which is less useful (images, media) but any XML or RDF can be easily understood by other (selection) tools as well (I'm thinking e.g. xmlstarlet). Besides that, plain text is always welcome - anything less than the full soup we currently get. Also, with me it seems that the goldendict "word" lookup isn't working. But it might be that I have an outdated ArchLinux package version, dunno. Anyway, not every format is equally useful on the cli, is my point I guess. So a switch to pass argument output format, plus one to limit the dictionary used would be very preferable (much like sdvc - stardict for the virtual console, I would guess it means - does)

clojens on 21 Sep 2014

A benefit of a cli based dictionary implementation is the ability to use shell history and grep to review looked up words.

crodjer on 23 Sep 2014

+1. Another reason for this that hasn't been mentioned above is that it would allow for accessing goldendict dictionaries through ssh (i.e. remotely).

dohliam on 14 Jan 2015

Since I actually have a pressing need for this feature on a daily basis, I hacked together a Ruby script called gdcl ("Goldendict Command-Line") that allows me to search my dictionaries over ssh. It has the added benefit that I can also pipe the results to files or other programs and so on.

Right now it only works with DSL dictionaries in the Goldendict folder, but there are a bunch of options and a growing list of features, and it would be great to eventually support all the formats that Goldendict does (bgl, dict, etc). Since almost all of my dictionaries are in dictzipped dsl format, this is already quite functional for me, but in the absence of an official command-line version I'll continue to work on expanding options and features for gdcl.

In response to @Tvangeste's comment, as @chulai suggested the script currently strips out dsl dictionary markup, and it could easily do the same with html (online dictionaries are the next feature I'd like to include). The result is very clean -- just the content appears in the terminal, suitable for redirecting to a text file or whatever. Hopefully this can serve as a proof-of-concept for the usefulness of this feature that so many above would like to see.

What would be particularly great about an official command-line version is that we could leverage the existing index files and other internals that Goldendict uses, but I understand if there is no interest in working on such a feature at the moment.

dohliam on 24 Feb 2015

:+1: :accept: :fire: :up: :cool: :orange_book:
Necrobump!! gdcl("GoldenDict Command-Line") is available in Arch Linux now. Σ( ° △ °|||)︴ Thx @dohliam ! ￣ 3￣

I've added the binary package to my own repository.
Pls visit http://git.io/-1 and add my repository, then execute sudo pacman -Syu gdcl to install the package.

See https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gdcl/ for detail.

Firef0x on 1 Mar 2015

Bump!