Cliptionary

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Inspiration

Ever started reading in a new language only to quickly realize the importance of a dictionary crutch? Remember how irritated you got opening a new search window every second word?

Fear no more! Cliptionary has got your back. With automatic searches right from your clipboard, you can forget about manually searching every word!

Pretty useful anytime you're constantly searching up words in the same language. From Shakespeare plays to visual novels to Japanese light novels, Cliptionary automates your repetitive search actions. We particularly recommend using it in split screen with your source text!

What it does

Cliptionary automatically grabs text selections from your clipboard and translates/defines in a pre-opened window.

How we built it

Node.js, web-scraping, live-updating html page

Challenges we ran into

Creating a live-updating html page to display the translations

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Solving one of the common annoyances for ebook readers and language learners. It also works across all platforms supporting node.js!

What we learned

How to work with Node.js as well as developing software in a team environment efficiently

What's next for Cliptionary

Immediately, we would like to increase support for other dictionary websites. In addition, expanding its uses to currency and unit conversion would be quite effective