Etymonline Word Etymology Scraper
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Etymonline Word Etymology Scraper
Pull word etymologies from the Online Etymology Dictionary. Returns headword, part of speech, etymology essay, related cross-references, century of origin, and direct URL. Search by keyword or look up specific words. Useful for linguists, writers, dictionary apps.
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📜 Etymonline Word Etymology Scraper
🚀 Pull word etymologies from the Online Etymology Dictionary: headword, etymology essay, century of origin, related words.
The Etymonline Word Etymology Scraper pulls word histories from the Online Etymology Dictionary, the most cited free source for English word origins. Output includes the headword, part of speech, etymology essay (HTML and plain text), summary, century or period of origin, related cross-reference words, and direct URL to the source page.
The dictionary covers 50,000+ English words and phrases with etymologies tracing roots through Old English, Middle English, French, Latin, Greek, Norse, and beyond. The Actor has two modes: search by keyword to discover related words, or look up a specific list of words directly.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Linguists, writers, content marketers, NLP/ML pipelines, vocabulary apps, language learners, journalists | Linguistic research, word-of-the-day newsletters, vocabulary apps, NLP training corpora, content writing on word origins |
📋 What the Etymonline Word Etymology Scraper does
Five filtering workflows in a single run:
- 🔍 Search mode. Search a keyword and return ranked word results.
- 📚 Lookup mode. Pass a list of words and pull each one's etymology directly.
- 📜 Full essay text. HTML and plain-text etymology with cross-references resolved.
- 📅 Century detection. Heuristic extraction of the period a word was first attested.
- 🔗 Related words. Cross-references parsed from the body.
💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering and fresh data on every run.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: centuryFirstAttested, etymologyText, etymonlineUrl, partOfSpeech, relatedWords, 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 Etymonline Word Etymology 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 Online Etymology Dictionary, its maintainers, 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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