{"repo":"mhwgoo/cambridge","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/mhwgoo/cambridge","clone":"git clone https://github.com/mhwgoo/cambridge.git","description":"Terminal version of Cambridge Dictionary by default. Also supports the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for the AE flavor.","language":"Python","stars":61,"topics":["python","cambridge-dictionary","dictionary","merrian-webster","web-scraping"],"license":"GPL-3.0","category":"scrapers-browser-automation","readme_excerpt":"Cambridge cambridge is a terminal version of Cambridge Dictionary, whose source is from https://dictionary.cambridge.org; also supports the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as backup. [ NOTE ] Both Cambridge and Merriam-Webster have implemented cloudflare mechanism in 2026, and I have simulated human action with Playwright in the headless manner to work around it. Although this approach works, it takes about 5 secs to receive the html document, which defeats the whole purpose of speed uping word searching and language learning process. Therefore I have to pause this project until I find as fast a way as when there was no cloudflare. Or If you know how, please kindly offer your help. Thanks. Screenshots Look up words/phrases in Cambridge Dictionary (screenshot on DARK terminal background) Look up words/phases in Merriam-Webster Dictionary (screenshot on LIGHT terminal background) Highlights 1. camb to look up in Cambridge Dictionary by default 2. camb -c to look up in Cambridge Dictionary with correspondent Chinese meanings 3. camb -w to look up in Merriam-Webster Dictionary 4. support concurrent searching multiple words from one dictionary, or multiple words from different dictionaries 5. less than 2s taken to do all the work for the word, including fetching, parsing, printing, and writing cache 6. less than 0.1s for the same word's later search by retrieving cache 7. only the first dictionary from Cambridge (assuming the optimal) to avoid being confused by multiple dictionaries 8.","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/mhwgoo","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/mhwgoo/cambridge/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}