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Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Learn more . Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. I was looking for a way to get the pronunciation of any given word by querying an API of some sort. As Wiktionary comes in handy to find pronunciations of words I was trying to use their API, but how do I get the pronunciation of a specific word? It seems their API only allows getting the entire Wiki article. Wiktionary doesn't have an API of its own. MediaWiki, the software the Wiktionary runs on does have an API but it

Wiktionary is a wiki dictionary that covers many languages. It even has translations. I would be interested in parsing it and playing with the data, has anyone does anything like this before? Is there any library I can use? (Preferably Python.) Wiktionary runs on MediaWiki, which has an API . One of the subpages for the API documentation is Client code, which lists some Python libraries . I had at one time downloaded a wiktionary dump, trying to gather together words and definitions for slavic languages. I approached it using elementtree to go thru the xml file that is the dump. I would avoid

How may Wiktionary's API be used to determine whether or not a word exists? Michael Mrozek The Wiktionary API can be used to query whether or not a word exists. Examples for existing and non-existing pages: http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=test http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=testx The first link provides examples on other types of formats that might be easier to parse. To retrieve the word's data in a small XHTML format (should more than existence be required), request the printable version of the page: http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title