Wordenlijst

Save words to your Gist easily.

WTF?

This service provides an interface to collect words in one HTTP call.

It'll support your journey in extending your vocabulary while doing everyday business at your computer or slacking with your phone. You'll be able to save new words in one place -- your GitHub Gist -- with only a pair of keystrokes.

Check mine gist here.

Setup

The service is running on free Heroku plan wordenlijst.herokuapp.com, there are no GUI, nor persistence there: everything you need is saved in your Github Gist.

To start, you'll need an Github API key. Go to Settings / Developer settings / Personal access tokens and choose Generate new token. Add Token description and select gist scope only. Then copy generated access token.

Open Terminal and type in the command below, replacing YOUR-GITHUB-TOKEN with your token at then end:

curl --cookie-jar ~/.wordenlijst-cookies https://wordenlijst.herokuapp.com/github/token/YOUR-GITHUB-TOKEN

This will create a new Gist named wordenlijst in your Gists, and store api key and gist id in ~/.wordenlijst-cookies cookie file. You'd see smth. like this in reply:

{"apiKey":"2zjAT7ypDBb9...........7S6GMZwV6B2","gistId":"cbe9defa032013cdf8a043aa7c72e60f",
 "message":"Welcome Aleksandr Vinokurov, your api key is 2zjAT7ypDBb9...........7S6GMZwV6B2,\
 and gist is https://api.github.com/gists/cbe9defa032013cdf8a043aa7c72e60f"}

In case of an error, please check:

Failure message	Possible reason
"Failed invoking with status : 404 body : \n {"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3/gists/#create-a-gist\"}"	Probably you've forgot to opt gist scope for the token.
"Failed invoking with status : 401 body : \n {"message":"Bad credentials","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3\"}"	Check that you didn't forget to copy all the characters of your token to the call.

Saving the word

Now you can save words with this HTTP call:

curl --cookie-jar ~/.wordenlijst-cookies --cookie ~/.wordenlijst-cookies -X POST https://wordenlijst.herokuapp.com/words?phrase=WORD

Like this:

curl --cookie-jar ~/.wordenlijst-cookies --cookie ~/.wordenlijst-cookies -X POST https://wordenlijst.herokuapp.com/words?phrase=ubiquitous

Or this:

curl --cookie-jar ~/.wordenlijst-cookies --cookie ~/.wordenlijst-cookies -X POST https://wordenlijst.herokuapp.com/words --get --data-urlencode "phrase=Elf verbeterpunten"

With kinda this reply:

{"phrase":{"value":"Elf verbeterpunten"},"message":"New phrase added to gist https://api.github.com/gists/cbe9defa032013cdf8a043aa7c72e60f"}

Automating

MacOS

Download Save to Wordenlijst.dmg from releases and install (by openning) Save to Wordenlijst.workflow quick action.

Then assign a shortcut to Save to Wordenlijst action in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > Text services.

Now open Safari and go for the unknown: search for new word, select it and hit your shortcut, if you did everything right, you should see a coq rolling on the Menu Bar and then a notification message Saving new phrase from Wordenlijst.

Congrats!

iOS

For now it seems like the best way is to use IFTTT app to create an applet that can be used to share a selected text from any screen on your device.

Open IFTTT app, choose My Applets tab and tap + in top right corner. You will start a New Applet flow. Tap + this and search for note, choose Note widget from the provided list of results. Choose Any new note option. Now tap + that and go for webhooks, choose Make a web request option.

Configuring the webhook is easy: for URL you specify https://GIST_ID:API_KEY@wordenlijst.herokuapp.com/words?phrase= and replace GIST_ID:API_KEY with gistId and apiKey separated with : (check Setup section of this doc). At the end of the URL add NoteText by choosing it via Add Ingredient button. Method must be set to POST. Content Type must be text/plain. That's it.

Now, for the check, go to Safari, select a word (of phrase), click Share... and choose IFTTT, then post it.

Congrats once again!