LDOCE Pronunciation Audio Downloader

A Node.js tool to download both British and American pronunciation of vocabularies from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (http://www.ldoceonline.com)

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This was initialy a fork of jmosawy Fork project, but has been provided an API and an online website for better usage experience. The website can be found at Longman API.

API

It also adds an API on top of the crawling service with a single endpoint:

const getWordPronounciation = (word) => {
  return fetch('https://https://longman-api.herokuapp.com/pronounce?word')
    .then(res => res.json())
    .then(res => res)
    .catch(e => alert(e))

const fantastic = getWordPronounciation('fantastic')
console.log(fantastic); // prints {american: 'Some_URL.mp3', british: 'Some_other_url.mp3'} to console
}

Description

This tool is built for educational purposes, plus it'd be useful for anyone who's looking for getting the most correct word pronunciations.

How to Use

You may clone this project, and then run the following command to get all dependencies:

npm install

After that, you may use the following command to get both American and British pronunciation of a :WORD:

node index.js ':word:'

Please Note: include your word in a single quote.