Duden Dictionary Search (with auto-suggest)

[deanishe]

Alfred Duden.de Search Workflow

Search the definitive German dictionary at Duden.de with auto-suggest.



Download and installation

Download the Workflow from the GitHub releases page or Packal. Double-click the Duden-Search.alfredworkflow file to install.

Usage

Default keyword is duden. Enter your query after that.

Actioning a result with RETURN will open the full results page at duden.de in your browser. Holding ⌘ on a result will show the URL it will open.

Licensing, thanks

The code of this workflow is released under the MIT licence.

This workflow is based on the Alfred-Workflow library (also MIT-licensed).

Edited September 16, 2015 by deanishe

[kithairon]

Excellent workflow, very appreciated – thanks for your great input here.

 

(Still haven't quite given up hope that this could be combined with the OT workflow – it's almost there except that in the OT workflow the duden.de option doesn't look for the original search term, only for subsequent ones as described here: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/3644-openthesaurusde-workflow/#entry23348

Edited August 3, 2014 by kithairon

[Teodin]

It seems Duden.de changed their website and API. The workflow stopped working for me a few days ago. Is there any hope that could be fixed?

[deanishe]

There is no API, unfortunately. The workflow parses the website HTML.

 

I've updated it to handle the changed HTML.

 

Download from GitHub or enter duden workflow:update into Alfred to grab the new version.

[deanishe]

Updated again today.

 

What's new:

• Holding ⌘ on a result will show the URL.
• The workflow can now update itself and will notify you when a new version is available.

[Teodin]

Hey! Great update!

 

I think they changed something yet again. The workflow now generates the URL "http://duden.dehttp://duden.de/rechtschreibung/WORD"

auto-suggest still works, so I guess it's something minor.

[deanishe]

Thanks for finding that.
 
It was indeed something very minor, and it's fixed in v1.4, which is up on GitHub and Packal now. You can also update by entering duden workflow:update into Alfred.
 
If you're still getting bum results, use duden workflow:delcache to remove any cached results from the previous, broken version.