How may Wiktionary’s API be used to determine whether or not a word exists?
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How may Wiktionary’s API be used to determine whether or not a word exists?
The Wiktionary API can be used to query whether or not a word exists.
Examples for existing and non-existing pages:
The first link provides examples on other types of formats that might be easier to parse.
To retrieve the word’s data in a small XHTML format (should more than existence be required), request the printable version of the page:
These can then be parsed with any standard XML parser.