A stupid little cli-thesaurus

gistfile1.txt

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import requests
from termcolor import colored

# get an api key from https://dictionaryapi.com/register/index
APIKEY = '<your api key here>'
URL = 'https://www.dictionaryapi.com/api/v3/references/thesaurus/json/'
word = sys.argv[1]

query = "{}{}?key={}".format(URL,word,APIKEY)

resp = requests.get(query)
print("(API Response:{})".format(resp.status_code))
data = resp.json()

#print in reverse order so the most relevant results print closest to the cursor
for k in range((len(data)-1), -1, -1):
    sense = data[k]
    print(colored("{} :: {}\n{}".format(sense['meta']['id'],sense['fl'], sense['shortdef'][0]),'yellow'))
    #print(colored(sense['meta']['syns']),'blue')
    for syn in sense['meta']['syns']:
        print(colored("{} ".format(syn),'white'))
    print("\n")