Cambridge Dictionary API

A simple API for Cambridge Dictionary, built with Node.js.

🕹️ Manual

📚️ dictionary

api/dictionary/{language}/{word}

language option:

option	description
en	english (us)
uk	english (uk)
en-cn	english-chinese-simplified
en-tw	english-chinese-traditional

use / to test it with UI

🌐 Deploy

💻 Running Locally

After clone this repository, run the following commands in the repository floder:

# install dependencies
pnpm install
# run
pnpm run dev

Then fetch http://localhost:3000/api/dictionary/english/hello to test it or use / to test it out with UI.

📖 Example

/api/dictionary/en-tw/cook

{
  "word": "cook",
  "pos": ["verb", "noun"],
  "verbs": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "type": "Plain form",
      "text": "cook"
    },
    {
      "id": 1,
      "type": "Third-person singular",
      "text": "cooks"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "type": "Past tense",
      "text": "cooked"
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "type": "Past participle",
      "text": "cooked"
    },
    {
      "id": 4,
      "type": "Present participle",
      "text": "cooking"
    },
    {
      "id": 5,
      "type": "Singular",
      "text": "cook"
    },
    {
      "id": 6,
      "type": "Plural",
      "text": "cooks"
    }
  ],
  "pronunciation": [
    {
      "pos": "verb",
      "lang": "uk",
      "url": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/media/english-chinese-traditional/uk_pron/u/ukc/ukcon/ukconve028.mp3",
      "pron": "/kʊk/"
    },
    {
      "pos": "verb",
      "lang": "us",
      "url": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/media/english-chinese-traditional/us_pron/c/coo/cook_/cook.mp3",
      "pron": "/kʊk/"
    },
    {
      "pos": "noun",
      "lang": "uk",
      "url": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/media/english-chinese-traditional/uk_pron/u/ukc/ukcon/ukconve028.mp3",
      "pron": "/kʊk/"
    },
    {
      "pos": "noun",
      "lang": "us",
      "url": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/media/english-chinese-traditional/us_pron/c/coo/cook_/cook.mp3",
      "pron": "/kʊk/"
    }
  ],
  "definition": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "pos": "verb",
      "text": "When you cook food, you prepare it to be eaten by heating it in a particular way, such as baking or boiling, and when food cooks, it is heated until it is ready to eat.",
      "translation": "做飯，烹調;燒，煮",
      "example": [
        {
          "id": 0,
          "text": "I don't cook meat very often.",
          "translation": "我不常煮肉吃。"
        },
        {
          "id": 1,
          "text": "He cooked us a huge dinner./He cooked a huge dinner for us.",
          "translation": "他給我們準備了一頓豐盛的飯菜。"
        },
        {
          "id": 2,
          "text": "Let the fish cook for half an hour before you add the wine.",
          "translation": "先把魚煮半個小時再加入酒。"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1,
      "pos": "noun",
      "text": "someone who prepares and cooks food",
      "translation": "廚師",
      "example": [
        {
          "id": 0,
          "text": "She's a wonderful cook.",
          "translation": "她是位很出色的廚師。"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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Hi there, I'm Elias, a middle school student from Taiwan. This API was initially created for another project that I'm still working on. I have never expected that so many people are interested in this project, please consider sponsoring me.
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API Source

• Verbs from wiktionary
• Other data from Cambridge Dictionary

Develop by Elias ❤️
Contributions are welcome! 🎉