Drafts Directory: Thesaurus

Action

Posted by @Joel_Arnold, Last update almost 4 years ago

Grabs text and looks up on Thesaurus.com. The text chosen is in this priority order:
1) Selected text. If there is nothing selected…
2) The last word before the cursor on the same line. If the cursor is on an empty line…
3) The clipboard

Install

Steps

script

var sel = editor.getSelectedText();
// if there was no selection get the whole line
if (!sel) {
let [st, len] = editor.getSelectedLineRange();
var line = editor.getTextInRange(st, len);
var word = line.split(" ");
var text = word.slice(-1)[0]
}
else {
var text = sel
} 
// and if there's nothing on the line, get the clipboard
if (!text) {
var text = app.getClipboard();
}
else {
} 
draft.setTemplateTag("link", text);

url

template	https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/[[link]]?s=t
useSafari	false
encodeTags	true

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