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py3interm/EXAMPLES/web_content_consumer_urllib.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Fetch a word definition from Merriam-Webster's API
+"""
+import sys
+from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
+import json
+# from pprint import pprint
+
+DATA_TYPE = 'application/json'
+
+API_KEY = 'b619b55d-faa3-442b-a119-dd906adc79c8'
+
+URL_TEMPLATE = 'https://www.dictionaryapi.com/api/v3/references/collegiate/json/{}?key={}'  # <1>
+
+def main(args):
+    if len(args) < 1:
+        print("Please specify a word to look up")
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    search_term = args[0].replace(' ', '+')
+
+    url = URL_TEMPLATE.format(search_term, API_KEY)  # <2>
+
+    do_query(url)
+
+def do_query(url):
+    print("URL:", url)
+    request = Request(url)
+    response = urlopen(request)  # <3>
+    raw_json_string = response.read().decode()  # <4>
+    data = json.loads(raw_json_string)  # <5>
+    # print("RAW DATA:")
+    # pprint(data)
+    for entry in data:  # <6>
+        if isinstance(entry, dict):
+            meta = entry.get("meta") # <7>
+            if meta:
+                part_of_speech = '({})'.format(entry.get('fl'))
+                word_id = meta.get("id")
+                print("{} {}".format(word_id.upper(), part_of_speech))
+            if "shortdef" in entry:
+                print('\n'.join(entry['shortdef']))
+            print()
+        else:
+            print(entry)
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main(sys.argv[1:])