duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice — pull request #28 by lactose (2012-05-14 18:46:05+00:00)
Title: Synonyms

spice plugin for "synonyms" @big huge thesaurus

assumes query of "synonyms [term]" or "[term] synonyms" and will display a list of nouns and verbs that are synonymous

sign up for api key at:

http://words.bighugelabs.com/getkey.php

additional comments i had for myself, just in case useful:

/* There was no way to include an extra parameter in the callback
* function -- so I can't display the search term. BigHugeAPI does
* not currently return search request. (Admin said he was open to adding functionality in future)
* STANDS4 API -- only returns xml, less than ideal
* Wiktionary/Wikimedia -- would have taken 2 requests or could have
* been a fathead (but this plugin was listed as spice by ddg admin)
* thesaurus.altervista.org -- didnt return request info either, also
* seemed slow
* dictionary.com -- would have taken up to 30 days to get an api key
* and very little ifnromation about requests/day and cost
*
*/