Seekh Lai API

An API for the Rektha.org Word of the Day function in GoLang.

It is the API behind the Seekh Lai Chrome Extension I'm developing as a personal language learning project.

Usage

First install the package

go get github.com/hassaanaliw/seekhlai-api

You can either use this as a package for your own web application in Go

package main

import (
	"github.com/hassaanaliw/seekhlai-api/scraper"
	"time"
)

func main() {
    # To fetch the word for any other day, pass the time object for that date
	word := scraper.ScrapeTodayWord(time.Now())
	fmt.P   rint(word.WordRomanUrdu)

}

Or run it as a server, served over HTTP localhost on the port specified in config-[dev/prod].json

❱❱❱ make format
                                                                                                                                                           130 ⏎  +1645 16:25 ❰─┘
golangci-lint run
Congrats! No issues were found.
go fmt .
go fmt ./model/
go fmt ./api/
go fmt ./config/
go fmt ./test/

❱❱❱ make run                                                                                                                                                                        +1668 16:25 ❰─┘
go run main.go
+---------------------+----------------------------+
|    Config Variables |               Config Value |
+=====================+============================+
|               Debug |                       true |
+---------------------+----------------------------+
|        Database URL |    sqlite:///tmp/quotes.db |
+---------------------+----------------------------+
|                Port |                       4410 |
+---------------------+----------------------------+

Serving web app on url: http://localhost:4410

Sample API Response

{
  date_published: "2018-07-02T10:38:55.060461898+05:00",
  word_roman_urdu: "lahad",
  word_nastaliq_urdu: "لحد",
  word_meaning: "burial chamber / grave",
  first_misra: "lahad meñ kyuuñ na jā.ūñ muñh chhupā.e ",
  second_misra: "bharī mahfil se uThvāyā gayā huuñ ",
  first_misra_translation: "why should I not be interred with a covered face ",
  second_misra_translation: "I have been cast from her presence in such disgrace ",
  ghazal_name: "",
  ghazal_name_link: "",
  ghazal_author: "Shad Azimabadi",
  ghazal_author_link: "https://rekhta.org/poets/shad-azimabadi"
}

Note: Only some days have the ghazal name and link included in the API response.