I had at one time downloaded a wiktionary dump, trying to gather together words and definitions for slavic languages. I approached it using elementtree to go thru the xml file that is the dump. I would avoid trying to scrape or crawl the site, and just download the xml dump that wikimedia provides for wiktionary. … Read more
The Wiktionary API can be used to query whether or not a word exists. Examples for existing and non-existing pages: http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=test http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=testx 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 … Read more