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Find Similar Terms

openthesaurus.similar_terms
ActionBusiness appsconnection required

Calls the OpenThesaurus API with the connection's credentials.

Find German words spelled similarly to a term, with their edit distance.

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Connection

Required
Yes — the node will not save without one
Auth type
No auth
Providers
OpenThesaurus
Secret shape
no credential — OpenThesaurus' API is public; the connection is a contact and a host
Config it needs
contact, base_url
Resolved by
config.connection_id, else node.connection_id

Configuration

1 field, 1 required. A dotted path is a nested object and name[] an array of objects — the editor renders the same tree.

FieldTypeRequiredDefaultConstraintsExample
term
The German word to look up, as a single term rather than a sentence.
stringYes——Test

Example configuration

Every value below is the contract’s own example or default — nothing invented.

{
  "term": "Test"
}

Output

One shape.

result

FieldTypeExample
term
The term that was looked up.
string—
found
False when nothing is spelled close enough to the term; branch on this.
boolean—
matches
The similar words, closest spelling first.
array—
matches[].term
The similarly spelled word.
string—
matches[].distance
The Levenshtein distance from the term, so 1 is a single-letter difference.
number—
count
How many similar words were returned.
number—
meta.api_version
The API version OpenThesaurus reported.
string—
meta.source
The service the entries came from.
string—
meta.license
The licence the returned entries are published under.
string—
meta.date
When OpenThesaurus generated the response.
string—
{
  "count": 0,
  "found": false,
  "matches": [
    {
      "distance": 0,
      "term": ""
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "api_version": "",
    "date": "",
    "license": "",
    "source": ""
  },
  "term": ""
}

Notes

  • OpenThesaurus returns at most five similar words, which makes this a cheap spell-check before a synonym lookup that found nothing.
  • OpenThesaurus is a German thesaurus; the term and every result are German.
  • OpenThesaurus' API is public: the connection carries no credential and nothing is sent as authentication. It carries the contact address OpenThesaurus requires in the User-Agent header of every request.
  • OpenThesaurus allows 60 requests per minute from one IP address and answers with an error beyond that; nothing here retries, so pace a loop that looks up many words.

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