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tzlion/wiktionator
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English Wiktionary word category lookup & randomisation

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Wiktionator
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[](#wiktionator)

English Wiktionary word category lookup thing. Maybe useful for some applications, I mostly used it for silly twitter bots. Can get a random word from a category and get category info for a given word.

Can operate either on the live API or a MySQL db (preliminary)

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### From API

[](#from-api)

To use it with the **live Wiktionary API**, just instantiate `TzLion\Wiktionator\ApiWiktionator` and call whichever methods you need to.

### From database

[](#from-database)

You can also use a copy of the Wiktionary data in a MySQL database derived from one of the official DB dumps. This is much faster than calling the API if your application needs to do a lot of lookups. But it's also extremely preliminary and you'll need to provide and host your own (large) DB.

Instantiate `TzLion\Wiktionator\DbWiktionator` with an array of connection details like this:

`new TzLion\Wiktionator\DbWiktionator(['hostname', 'username', 'password', 'database_name'])`

Currently your DB will need the following tables: `category`, `categorylinks`, `page`from the [official dumps for enwiktionary](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html). You can also delete columns not in use to save space.

### DB with fallback

[](#db-with-fallback)

If you want to try the DB first but fall back to the API if it can't be connected, you can call `TzLion\Wiktionator\Wiktionator::getInstance` with the DB connection details as detailed above. If you call it with no connection details, you'll always get the API version.

Methods
-------

[](#methods)

These should work the same on either the API or DB versions unless otherwise specified.

- `getWordPage` **API only!** Get the full Wiktionary page for the given word.
- `isWordInCategory` Check if the given word is in the given category.
- `getWordCategories` Get all the categories the given word is in.
- `getRandomWordInCategory` Get a random word in the given category.
    Note the randomness here is much better when using a database, since the API doesn't provide this functionality natively so we have to kind of fake it.
- `wordExistsInLanguage` Check if the given word exists in the given language.

###  Health Score

22

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LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity47

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

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Last Release

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