Term of the terminal

• Term of the terminal
  • Motivation
  • How to use
  • Roadmap

Motivation

I made this primarily because I wanted to learn new words everyday but didn't always get around to checking my phone for it, I would always skip or procrastinate.

However, by having it display in my terminal, which I open countless times in a day, I won't have the ability to procrastinate as the word would be right in front of me.

How to use

Still under development, but works great. Let me know if you have any suggestions. You can install it from NPM

npm i -g term-of-the-day

Then run termOfTheDay and see what happens 😉

Since this is a CLI, it accepts arguments. These arguments tell the CLI where to scrape your word of the day from Currently, the script only scrapes from

• merriam-webster.com
• dictionary.com

You can choose between these sites by passing either

• termOfTheDay --M or termOfTheDay --merriam to scrape from merriam-webster.com

• termOfTheDay --D or termOfTheDay --dictionary to scrape from Dictionary.com

• By default calling the termOfTheDay is equivalent to termOfTheDay --M

• By default words scraped are stored in a json file, however, if you do not want to store a word you can use the --N flag

• Dates must be in the format yyyy-mm-dd

• To get an already scraped word scraped

  # From Merriam Webster (if such an entry exists)
  termOfTheDay --M --from "2021-08-22"
  
  # From Dictionary.com
  termOfTheDay --D --from "2021-08-22"

Roadmap

• Add tests
• Improve documentation
• Make CLI implementation more robust with a help option