BREAKING: Wordreference no longer give out API keys...

[thomasgallagher]

This looked so useful and I just bought the Alfred powerpack and installed it, only to realise that Wordreference have stopped giving out API keys due to "abuse".

Source: http://www.wordreference.com/docs/api.aspx (Right at the bottom)

Not sure why they can't impose rate limits and such like normal API providers, very disappointing :(

[GoOz]

The workflow doesn't seem to work anymore even if i have a valid API key for several months… that's a shame :(

[anthonykevins]

Yeah, I noticed that a few days ago myself. Really too bad...

[esseti]

can't it be done by parsing the url as per other worflows? i'm not an expert, but I saw workflows that give google suggestions by parsing the webpage, this could be replicated for WR (altought you need plenty of workflow triggers for every language)

[anthonykevins]

I looked into this a few years ago when existing API keys stopped working temporarily, but unfortunately couldn't figure out how to have the results return properly.

[alexmartinfr]

I've been looking for a WordReference workflow lately, and since this one can't serve new users, I created a simpler version:

https://github.com/AlexMartinFR/alfred-wordreference/

This might be of interest to new users who didn't get an API key when it was still possible!