Google Ngram API

This API lets you download the Ngram dataset (Version 20120701) with specified condition from google as a CSV file.

Overview

Google Ngram dataset exists in the following structure:

ngram TAB year TAB match_count TAB volume_count NEWLINE

where,

• ngram represents the word(s)
• year represents the year
• match_count represents the overall count
• volume_count represents the count in distinct books

Example,

circumvallate   1978   335    91

It states that, in 1978, the word "circumvallate" occurred 335 times overall, in 91 distinct books of our sample.

Usage

The following paragram explains the usuage of this package

Getting it

To download this package use the following command

pip install google_ngram_api

Using it

This package has a single class Downloader and two functions download_full_csv and download_match_count_csv. The method download_full_csv enables you to download the complete dataset as csv whereas the function download_match_count_csv enables you to download match_count (overall count) data alone. Each method takes in three parameters:

1. language

The language code for the following languages are:

• English - eng
• English one million - eng-1M
• American English - eng-us
• British English - eng-gb
• English Fiction - eng-fiction
• Chinese(Simplified) - chi-sim
• French - fre
• German - ger
• Hebrew - heb
• Italian - ita
• Russin - rus
• Spanish - spa

2. n

n represents the 'N' in Ngrams. Possible numbers are 1,2,3,4 and 5.

3. alphabet

alphabet represents the ngram dataset associated with that alphabet.

License

MIT License Copyright (c) 2018 Venkatesh Prasad

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