Services

Convertor

The convertor webservice takes a natural-language string such as "3 feet in meters" and performs the appropriate unit conversions. At present it can only perform conversions that require multiplication/division (e.g., it cannot convert celcius to farenheight).

URL http://apps.MD87.co.uk/services/convertor/?query=<string>
query The string to be parsed and converted. For example "3 mm in miles".

DMDirc bugs

Retrieves information from a specified issue from the DMDirc issue tracker, and formats it for use on IRC.

URL http://apps.MD87.co.uk/services/dmdirc-bugs/?bug=<int>
bug The ID number of the issue to be retrieved

Etymology

Retrieves etymological information about a word.

URL http://apps.MD87.co.uk/services/etymology/?term=<string>
term The word to be looked up

Google

Performs the specified query using Google's AJAX search API, and translates the results from JSON to XML.

URL http://apps.MD87.co.uk/services/google/?q=<string>
q The query to be performed

Grouper

Places the provided terms into groups with similar or related words, by examining various definitions of the terms. Example.

URL http://apps.MD87.co.uk/services/grouper/?terms=<string>
terms A comma-separated list of terms to be grouped

Number plate details

This service takes a UK car number plate, and returns information about it. Modern plates contain letters and digits signalling the year and location the vehicle was produced.

URL http://apps.MD87.co.uk/services/plates/?plate=<string>
plate The number plate to decode, such as "K123 UNR" or "400X450".

PHP function lookup

Retrieves information about a named PHP function (or, if no such function exists, similarly named ones), and formats it for output to IRC.

URL http://apps.MD87.co.uk/services/php/?func=<string>
func The name of the function to lookup

Prime factors

Returns the prime factors of the specified number.

URL http://apps.MD87.co.uk/services/primefactors/?number=<int>
number The number to factorise

Wiktionary

Given a specified (English) word, this service returns the definition(s) from Wiktionary.

URL http://apps.MD87.co.uk/services/wordnet/?query=<string>
query The word to look up, eg "cow" or "defenestrate".
debug If present, debugging information will be printed.

WordNet lookup

Given a specified (English) word, this service returns the definition(s) from WordNet.

URL http://apps.MD87.co.uk/services/wordnet/?word=<string>
word The word to look up, eg "cow" or "defenestrate".