leo-cli
leo-cli is a command line tool which can be used to translate words or phrases from several languages to german. It uses the open dictionary dict.leo.org. I wrote this because visiting their website, choosing the language, typing the word and clicking the submit button required several too many steps. I am a lazy person.
Installation
This tool requires beatiful soup, the wonderful requests library and the tabulate library.
Install leo-cli
pip install leo-cli
Update
There has been a layout change on leo.org so you might have to pip install leo-cli --upgrade
Usage:
leo -h
usage: leo [-h] [-l {en,pt,fr,de,es,ru}] [-i] [-p {all,n,v,adj}] [-d] [-v]
words [words ...]
Retrieve word information via the Leo website
positional arguments:
words the words to look up on the LEO website
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l {en,pt,fr,de,es,ru}, --lang {en,pt,fr,de,es,ru}
source language, 2 chars (e.g. 'en')
-i, --inflect print inflection tables for all homonyms
-p {all,n,v,adj}, --pos {all,n,v,adj}
Part of speech of words to translate/inflect.
-d, --define print dictionary definitions. True by default if -i is
not specified.
-v, --verbose Print debug messages
Examples
leo example
leo another example
leo "hang out"
leo -l fr bonne gout
leo -l ru книга
leo -l pt ação
leo -i reden
leo ii -p n reden
TODO
- print non-German plurals
- allow specifying target and source languages separately
- (maybe) don't print conjugation labels in translation header for conjugations
- alternative conjugations with labels for usage (hängen)
- label haupt/nebensätzlich sections for verbs
