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# Author: OMKAR PATHAK

# This script helps us to enter a word and get precise meaning for that word from vocabulary.com

import urllib.request

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

word = input('Enter the word of which you want to find the meaning: ')

# Get the meaning by scrapping www.vocabulary.com

url = "https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/" + word + ""

htmlfile = urllib.request.urlopen(url)

soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlfile, 'lxml')

soup1 = soup.find(class_="short")

# If certain word's meaning is not found

try:

soup1 = soup1.get_text()

except AttributeError:

print('Cannot find such word! Check spelling.')

exit()

# Print short meaning

print ('-' * 25 + '->',word,"<-" + "-" * 25)

print ("SHORT MEANING: ",soup1)

print ('-' * 65)

# Print long meaning

soup2 = soup.find(class_="long")

soup2 = soup2.get_text()

print ('-' * 65)

# Print instances like Synonyms, Antonyms, etc.

soup3 = soup.find(class_="instances")

txt = soup3.get_text()

txt1 = txt.rstrip()

print (' '.join(txt1.split()))