Synonyms

A simple but fun project from long, long ago.

At the time, I could not find a good, free synonyms API online - only sites with ads you had to consult.

I figured I could use static hosting to deploy a french synonyms "api" by building all possible routes as individual json files and publishing that on netlify.

I built a script to extract all values from the OpenOffice french synonyms extension and gratefully used netlify resume upload feature to push an enormous number of very small json over the wire (to be exact, 36 165 of them).

Amazingly the system is still on today. Check it out here.