📕 Le Robert

This library gives you access to French words data by scraping them from the dictionary Le Robert, one of the most famous French dictionaries, using Puppeteer.

📥 Installation

NPM

npm install le-robert

Yarn

yarn add le-robert

PNPM

pnpm add le-robert

🔧 Functions

Each function can be imported from the library as below 👇

// Require syntax
const { getDefinitionGroups, getPronunciation, ... } = require('le-robert');

// Import syntax
import { getDefinitionGroups, getPronunciation, ... } from 'le-robert';

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getDefinitionGroups(wordQuery: string): Promise<DefinitionGroup[]>

Example

await getDefinitionGroups('programmation'); // => https://sourceb.in/4rSVNnS0rQ

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getPronunciation(wordQuery: string): Promise<Pronunciation>

Example

await getPronunciation('programmation'); // => https://sourceb.in/5rHNNIWFZD

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getUsageExamples(wordQuery: string): Promise<UsageExample[]>

Example

await getUsageExamples('programmation'); // => https://sourceb.in/IekuY8L8Jp

getConjugationGroups(verbQuery: string): Promise<ConjugationGroup[]>

Example

await getConjugationGroups('programmer'); // => https://sourceb.in/HZccVYUGzJ

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⚙️ Types

Since some of the returned objects from the previous functions may be huge, here is the types to help you understand better how to use the data.

Also, you can use the intellisense of your editor to explore the data.

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DefinitionGroup

interface DefinitionGroup {
   category: string;
   definitions: Definition[];
}

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Definition

interface Definition {
   value: string;
   examples: string[];
   context?: string;
}

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Pronunciation

interface Pronunciation {
   audioURL: string;
}

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UsageExample

interface UsageExample {
   value: string;
   source: UsageExampleSource;
}

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UsageExampleSource

interface UsageExampleSource {
   value: string;
   url: string;
}

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ConjugationGroup

interface ConjugationGroup {
   name: string;
   subgroups: ConjugationSubgroup[];
}

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ConjugationSubgroup

interface ConjugationSubgroup {
   name: string;
   tenses: ConjugationTense[];
}

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ConjugationTense

interface ConjugationTense {
   name: string;
   conjugations: string[];
}