Dictionary Word Definitions Scraper
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Dictionary Word Definitions Scraper
Pull English word definitions, phonetics, audio pronunciations, parts of speech, examples, synonyms, and antonyms. Look up a word list or paste a paragraph and the Actor breaks it into per-word records. Useful for language apps, NLP, vocabulary builders, content tools.
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📖 Dictionary Word Definitions Scraper
🚀 Pull English word definitions, phonetics, audio, parts of speech, examples, synonyms, antonyms.
The Dictionary Word Definitions Scraper pulls structured English word definitions from a free public dictionary API. Output includes the headword, phonetic transcription, audio pronunciation URL, part of speech, definition, usage example, synonyms, and antonyms. Multiple entries per word are returned (one per part of speech / definition).
The Actor accepts a word list directly or a paragraph that it tokenizes. Stop-words ("the", "a", "of") are filtered out automatically. Useful for vocabulary apps, language-learning supplements, NLP corpora, and content tools.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Language-learning apps, NLP/ML pipelines, content marketers, writers, vocabulary builders, accessibility tools | Vocabulary builder apps, language-learning supplements, NLP training datasets, blog post enrichment, content writing |
📋 What the Dictionary Word Definitions Scraper does
Five filtering workflows in a single run:
- 📋 Word list lookup. Pass a list and pull each word's definition.
- 📝 Paragraph tokenizer. Paste a paragraph; the Actor splits it and looks up each unique non-stop word.
- 🔉 Audio pronunciation. Direct audio URL when available.
- 📚 Multi-entry per word. One row per (POS, definition) pair, capped at 4 per word.
- 🔗 Synonyms + antonyms. Both arrays included per definition.
💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering and fresh data on every run.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: antonymsText, audioUrl, definition, example, partOfSpeech, phonetic, synonymsText, word. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
- 🌐 Open the Actor. Find the Dictionary Word Definitions Scraper on the Apify Store.
- 🎯 Set input. Pick filters and
maxItems. - 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
- 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.
⏱️ Total time from signup to dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by dictionaryapi.dev, Wiktionary, the Wikimedia Foundation, or any cited reference work. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.
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