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Re: Is Oxford Learner's Dictionaries available?

Oxford Learner's Dictionaries isn't available in the Oxford Dictionaries API. However, they have an API as well. To request for access or general query you can send an email to [email protected]. More information about the dictionary here in this page.

I hope it helps.

TaisFukushima

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Re: Is sentences' audio available?

Hello @akiorange

I'm afraid Oxford Dictionaries API only have pronunciation audio, not sentence audio. Since you mentioned the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionaries, we would like to inform you that they have a different API and this dataset isn't available in the Oxford Dictionaries API.

I have informed the department responsible about the OALD about your query and I will respond to your question as soon as they respond. At the moment, you can visit this web page which gives you further information about their API and an email address for contact.

TaisFukushima

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Re: API returns not all word definitions

Hello @RobotVK

Seems that it is a bug. We have created a ticket to check why the API is not returning all the definitions.

We will investigate further and fix it.

Thanks for flagging this up!

TaisFukushima

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Re: Some of the API returns HTTP 403: Authenticated failed

Hello @dderek970

Prototype account has access only to our API basic functionalities- Entries and Lemmas endpoints and 1000 requests per month.

If you are looking for a bespoken pricing based on requirements, caching and offline usage we would recommend an Enterprise plan.

They are different, please visit this page to check the plans available.

TaisFukushima

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Re: Will this API work with just vanilla JavaScript (client-side requests)?

Hello @avilches_terriza578

We accept requests from javascript code. But, we don’t accept CORS requests from javascript clients. They can use javascript to build an app and use our API, whereas, they can not use CORS request. My colleagues from the technical team verified this code in javascript and they ran it with nodejs, it worked for them (find the example below)

var XMLHttpRequest = require("xmlhttprequest").XMLHttpRequest;
var data = null;

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

// withCredentials indicates whether or not cross-site Access-Control requests should be made using credentials.
xhr.withCredentials = true;

xhr.addEventListener("readystatechange", function () {
if (this.readyState === 4) {
console.log(this.responseText);
}
});

xhr.open("GET", "https://od-api.oxforddictionaries.com/api/v2/entries/en-gb/computer");
xhr.setRequestHeader("app_id", "XXXXXXXX");
xhr.setRequestHeader("app_key", "XXXXXXX);

xhr.send(data);

TaisFukushima

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Re: Using the API too frequently/quickly

Hi @melliot73,
I’ve just heard back from my colleagues about your query.

They’ve checked the dataset and unfortunately neither cuttlefish nor tentacle are entries on the thesaurus dictionary, hence the 404 errors.

However, it looks like you are still using the API v1, and since we have now launched v2, v1 will progressively stop working and will shut down for good on Sunday 30th June.
All v1 users will need to migrate to v2, and if you are on a FREE account, you will need to update your plan to either Prototype or Developer to get access to v2. It’s probably worth mentioning that if you need translations, sentences or thesaurus endpoints, the Prototype plan may not work for you as it gives access only to lemmas and entries.

More information about our new plans is available here.
To make your migration process easy we have created a Migration Guide to give you further information about API v2 key changes and the steps you will need to take. If you have further questions, there are also some FAQs here.

I hope this is helps clarify things, but of course if there is anything else you need help with, let us know!

Simone

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Re: Missing thesaurus for 'dumb'

Yup, I think the V2 output will provide all three senses but, as a result, the V1 output won't actually get fixed.

AmosDuveen

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Re: Does Wordlist endpoint make searches only from ODE?

Hi @shahood,

Remeber when I said that, for the sake of argument, is is easier to think of ODE and NOAD as being separate? I'm pretty sure that the same applies here. GB English (from ODE) is always the default, unless you apply the regions=us filter.

AmosDuveen

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Re: Is there a way to get a list of all valid Headwords?

Hi @Shahood,

No, I wasn't talking about that; I was talking about a new product: a full downloadable unfiltered list of headwords and inflections extracted from our English data, which we plan to charge for.

AmosDuveen

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Re: Why is "g" not equal to "g"?

Hi @tdkehoe,

It's certainly not a uniquely Oxford thing. Using the script g forces the character to render as a single story form. If it were replaced by the standard character, it could render as either, depending on the chosen font, for example the single story character as seen in Arial, or the two story character as seen in Times New Roman.

Current IPA guidelines say that the two forms are equivalent but my guess is that the Oxford Dictionaries editorial guidelines probably insist on using the single story form to avoid any doubt because the two characters did formerly refer to slightly different sounds. The other sound, which I don't think applies in English, is currently represented as "ɣ" in IPA transcription.

AmosDuveen

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