DictionaryKit

An Objective-C Wrapper for Private Dictionary Services on Mac OS X

This library accesses private OS X APIs, making it unsuitable for apps submitted to the App Store.

Modifications

This is a fork of the original DictionaryKit. Here's a list of some notable things that have changed:

• Added/modified type information for a better Swift interop experience
• Swapped the API to use dictionary identifiers instead of names
• Added some additional QOL methods for making certain tasks easier/faster

Usage

#import "DictionaryKit.h"

TTTDictionary *dictionary = [TTTDictionary dictionaryWithIdentifier:DCSDictionaryApple];
NSLog(@"%@\n", dictionary.name);

NSString *term = @"apple";
for (TTTDictionaryEntry *entry in [dictionary entriesForSearchTerm:term]) {
    NSLog(@"%@", entry.text);
}

Available Dictionaries

These are the known dictionary options, which may or may not be available on all systems.

Constant	Identifier	Name
DCSDictionaryNewOxfordAmerican	com.apple.dictionary.NOAD	New Oxford American Dictionary
DCSDictionaryPrismaDutch	com.apple.dictionary.nl.Prisma	Prisma woordenboek Nederlands
DCSDictionaryOxfordRussian	com.apple.dictionary.ru.oup	Толковый словарь русского языка
DCSDictionaryWisdomJapaneseEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.ja-en.WISDOM	ウィズダム英和辞典 / ウィズダム和英辞典
DCSDictionaryOxfordUkrainianEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.uk-en.oup	Українсько-Англійський Словник
DCSDictionaryOxfordRussianEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.OxfordRussian	Oxford Russian Dictionary - Русско-Английский • Англо-Русский
DCSDictionaryOxfordPortugueseEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.pt-en.oup	Oxford Portuguese Dictionary - Português-Inglês • Inglês-Português
DCSDictionaryOxfordAmericanWritersThesaurus	com.apple.dictionary.OAWT	Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus
DCSDictionaryNationalencyklopedinEnglishSwedish	com.apple.dictionary.sv-en.oup	NE Nationalencyklopedin AB Professional English-Swedish / Svensk-Engelska
DCSDictionaryOxfordPunjabiEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.pa-en.oup	Oxford Punjabi Dictionaries - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਕੋਸ਼ • پنجابی انگریزی لغت
DCSDictionaryOxfordPolishEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.pl-en.oup	Oxford PWN Polish-English Dictionary / Wielki słownik polsko-angielski
DCSDictionaryOxfordArabicEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.ar-en.oup	Oxford Arabic Dictionary - عربي-إنجليزي • إنجليزي-عربي
DCSDictionaryOxfordItalian	com.apple.dictionary.OxfordItalian	Oxford Paravia Il Dizionario inglese - italiano/italiano - inglese
DCSDictionaryLacVietVietnamese	com.apple.dictionary.vi-en.oup	Từ điển Lạc Việt
DCSDictionaryOxfordKazakhEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.kk-en.oup	Оксфорд Қазақ Cөздігі
DCSDictionaryDaijirinJapanese	com.apple.dictionary.ja.Daijirin	スーパー大辞林
DCSDictionaryOxfordThaiEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.th-en.oup	พจนานุกรมอังกฤษ-ไทย & ไทย-อังกฤษ ฉบับทันสมัยและสมบูรณ์ที่สุด
DCSDictionaryDevotoOliItalian	com.apple.dictionary.it.Devoto-Oli	Dizionario italiano da un affiliato di Oxford University Press
DCSDictionaryMultidictionnaireFrench	com.apple.dictionary.fr.Multi	Multidictionnaire de la langue française
DCSDictionaryOxfordGreekEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.el-en.oup	Stavropoulos Oxford Greek-English Learners Dictionary
DCSDictionaryArkadasTurkish	com.apple.dictionary.tr.oup	Arkadaş Türkçe Sözlük
DCSDictionaryOxfordCroatianEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.hr-en.oup	Praktický Anglicko-Chorvatský Slovník
DCSDictionaryOxfordMalay	com.apple.dictionary.ms.oup	Kamus Komprehensif Bahasa Melayu - Malay Monolingual Dictionary, Oxford Fajar
DCSDictionaryHongKongChinese	com.apple.dictionary.zh_HK.common	商務新詞典（全新版）
DCSDictionaryChineseIdioms	com.apple.dictionary.zh_CN.idioms	汉语成语词典
DCSDictionaryPonsFrenchGerman	com.apple.dictionary.fr-de.oup	PONS Großwörterbuch Französisch Deutsch
DCSDictionaryOxfordMalayEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.ms-en.oup	Kamus Dwibahasa Melayu/Inggeris - English/Malay Bilingual Dictionary, Oxford Fajar
DCSDictionaryOxfordDanishEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.da-en.oup	Praktisk Engelsk-Dansk Ordbog
DCSDictionaryChineseThesaurus	com.apple.dictionary.zh_CN.thes	现代汉语同义词典
DCSDictionaryLarousseSpanish	com.apple.dictionary.es.DGLEV	Larousse Editorial Diccionario General de la Lengua Española
DCSDictionaryOxfordBulgarian	com.apple.dictionary.bg.oup	Тълковен речник на съвременния български език
DCSDictionaryOxfordIndonesianEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.id-en.oup	Oxford Study Indonesian Dictionary - Inggris-Indonesia • Indonesia-Inggris
DCSDictionaryOxfordBengaliEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.bn-en.oup	Oxford Bengali Dictionaries - বাংলা-ইংরেজি • ইংরেজি-বাংলা
DCSDictionaryOxfordHungarianEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.hu-en.oup	Magay Tamás szótár - Magyar-Angol • Angol-Magyar
DCSDictionaryMotFinnishEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.fi-en.oup	MOT sanakirja suomi-englanti, englanti-suomi
DCSDictionaryNationalencyklopedinSwedish	com.apple.dictionary.sv.oup	NE Ordbok
DCSDictionaryCantoneseEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.yue-en.cp	英譯廣東口語詞典
DCSDictionaryModernGreek	com.apple.dictionary.el.oup	Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής
DCSDictionaryOxfordCzechEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.cs-en.oup	Velký anglicko-český a česko-anglický slovník
DCSDictionaryWikipedia	com.apple.dictionary.Wikipedia	Wikipedia
DCSDictionaryOxfordTurkishEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.tr-en.oup	Oxford Turkish Dictionary - Türkçe-İngilizce • İngilizce-Türkçe
DCSDictionaryModernChinese	com.apple.dictionary.zh_CN.SDCC	现代汉语规范词典
DCSDictionaryOxfordCantoneseEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.yue-en.oup	牛津粵英雙語詞典
DCSDictionaryDudenGerman	com.apple.dictionary.de.DDDSI	Duden-Wissensnetz deutsche Sprache
DCSDictionaryOxfordTamilEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.ta-en.oup	Oxford Tamil Dictionaries - தமிழ்-ஆங்கிலம் • ஆங்கிலம்-தமிழ்
DCSDictionaryHongKongChineseEnglishIdioms	com.apple.dictionary.zh_HK-en.idioms.cp	漢英對照成語詞典
DCSDictionaryLarousseCatalan	com.apple.dictionary.ca.oup	Larousse Editorial Diccionari Manual de la llengua catalana
DCSDictionaryOxfordDictionaryOfEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.ODE	Oxford Dictionary of English
DCSDictionaryOxfordMalayalamEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.ml-en.oup	Oxford Malayalam Dictionaries - മലയാളം-ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് • ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്-മലയാളം
DCSDictionaryOxfordKannadaEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.kn-en.oup	Oxford Kannada Dictionaries - ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್-ಕನ್ನಡ • ಕನ್ನಡ-ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್
DCSDictionaryApple	com.apple.dictionary.AppleDictionary	Apple Dictionary
DCSDictionaryOxfordSlovakEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.sk-en.oup	Veľký Anglicko-Slovenský Slovník
DCSDictionaryTaiwaneseChinese	com.apple.dictionary.zh_TW.wn	五南國語活用辭典
DCSDictionaryOxfordUrduEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.ur-en.oup	Oxford Urdu Dictionaries - اردو۔انگریزی • انگریزی-اردو
DCSDictionaryOxfordTeluguEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.te-en.oup	Oxford Telugu Dictionaries - తెలుగు-ఇంగ్లీష్ • ఇంగ్లీష్-తెలుగు
DCSDictionaryRajpalHindi	com.apple.dictionary.hi.oup	राजपाल हिन्दी शब्दकोश
DCSDictionaryNorwegian	com.apple.dictionary.no.oup	Norsk Ordbok
DCSDictionaryOxfordHindiEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.hi-en.oup	Oxford Hindi Dictionaries - हिन्दी-अंग्रेज़ी • अंग्रेज़ी-हिन्दी
DCSDictionaryThai	com.apple.dictionary.th.oup	พจนานุกรมไทย ฉบับทันสมัยและสมบูรณ์
DCSDictionaryCrownChineseJapanese	com.apple.dictionary.zhs-ja.Crown	超級クラウン中日辞典 / クラウン日中辞典
DCSDictionaryPolish	com.apple.dictionary.pl.oup	Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego
DCSDictionaryOxfordGerman	com.apple.dictionary.OxfordGerman	Oxford German Dictionary
DCSDictionaryOxfordChineseEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.zh_CN-en.OCD	牛津英汉汉英词典
DCSDictionaryDanish	com.apple.dictionary.da.oup	Politikens Nudansk Ordbog
DCSDictionaryRomanian	com.apple.dictionary.ro.oup	Dicţionarul explicativ al limbii române
DCSDictionaryOxfordFrench	com.apple.dictionary.OxfordFrench	Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary
DCSDictionaryPrismaEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.nl-en.oup	Prisma Handwoordenboek Engels
DCSDictionaryDrEyeChineseEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.zh_TW-en.DrEye	譯典通英漢雙向字典
DCSDictionaryCroatian	com.apple.dictionary.hr.oup	Hrvatski Enciklopedijski Rječnik
DCSDictionaryNorwegianEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.no-en.oup	Engelsk Ordbok
DCSDictionaryEvenShoshanHebrew	com.apple.dictionary.he.oup	מילון אבן-שושן מחודש ומותאם לשנות האלפיים
DCSDictionaryNewAceKorean	com.apple.dictionary.ko.NewAce	뉴에이스 국어사전
DCSDictionaryNewAceKoreanEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.ko-en.NewAce	뉴에이스 영한사전 / 뉴에이스 한영사전
DCSDictionaryOxfordThesaurusOfEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.OTE	Oxford Thesaurus of English
DCSDictionaryOxfordGujaratiEnglish	com.apple.dictionary.gu-en.oup	Oxford Gujarati Dictionaries - ગુજરાતી-અંગ્રેજી • અંગ્રેજી-ગુજરાતી
DCSDictionaryTTY	com.apple.accessibility.dictionary.TTY	TTY Dictionary
DCSDictionaryOxfordSpanish	com.apple.dictionary.OxfordSpanish	Gran Diccionario Oxford - Español-Inglés • Inglés-Español
DCSDictionaryPortuguese	com.apple.dictionary.pt.oup	Dicionário de Português licenciado para Oxford University Press

Original Author

Mattt (@mattt)

License

DictionaryKit is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.