Simple addon to quickly lookup words in the OSX dictionary

OSX_Dictionary_Lookup.py

# coding: utf-8

"""
Simple addon to quickly lookup words in the OSX dictionary

Author: Dmitry Gordeev <nillsondg@gmail.com>
Heavily based of work by
Eddie Blundell <eblundell@gmail.com>
https://gist.github.com/eddie/ff3d820fb267ae26ca0e
Artiom Basenko <demi.log@gmail.com>
https://gist.github.com/Xifax/f36002ddf910993d6bfb

License: The MIT License (MIT)
"""

# Anki
from aqt.qt import *
from aqt.webview import AnkiWebView
from anki.hooks import addHook
from urllib.parse import quote_plus


class OSXDictionary:
	"""OSX Dictionary launcher"""
	OSX_CMD = 'open'
	OSX_ARGS = 'dict:///%s'

	def get_selected(self, view):
		"""Copy selected text"""
		return view.page().selectedText()

	def lookup_osx(self, view):
		QProcess.startDetached(self.OSX_CMD, [self.OSX_ARGS % quote_plus(self.get_selected(view))])

	def add_action(self, view, menu, action):
		"""Add 'lookup' action to context menu"""
		action = menu.addAction(action)
		action.triggered.connect(lambda: self.lookup_osx(view))

	def lookup_osx_action(self, view, menu):
		"""Lookup OSX action"""
		self.add_action(view, menu,
			u'Lookup "%s"' % self.get_selected(view)[:10])

# Add lookup actions to context menu
osx_dict = OSXDictionary()
addHook("AnkiWebView.contextMenuEvent", osx_dict.lookup_osx_action)
addHook("EditorWebView.contextMenuEvent", osx_dict.lookup_osx_action)

If you add...

addHook("EditorWebView.contextMenuEvent", osx_dict.lookup_osx_action)

...at the end here, you can also look up words while editing cards. I look words up sometimes to double-check their meaning, or to verify that I read them out of the book correctly.

If you add...

addHook("EditorWebView.contextMenuEvent", osx_dict.lookup_osx_action)

...at the end here, you can also look up words while editing cards. I look words up sometimes to double-check their meaning, or to verify that I read them out of the book correctly.

Hello. Thank you for comment. I have updated the plugin with this feature. Check it out.

Thanks! Works great!