Word Finder REST API

REST API Usage Instructions

I took every english word (over 200k words) and built a little REST API that will help you find words that contain specific characters.

Enter a word using _ and ? as needed for unknown characters. Using ? means to include letters that aren't already used (you can think of it as a "Wheel of Fortune" placeholder). Using _ will find words that contain any character (whether it's currently "revealed" or not).

For example, go?????e would return:

GOADLIKE
GOATLIKE
GOBSHITE
GOLDSIZE

And go_____e would return:

GOADLIKE
GOATLIKE
GOBSHITE
GOETHITE
GOLDSIZE
GONGLIKE
GONOCYTE
GONOPORE
GOODSIRE
GOODTIME
GOODWIFE

Here is an example of how to interact with this REST API using Ruby:

require 'net/http'
require 'nokogiri'
host = 'degrassi-minister-93543.herokuapp.com'
root = Nokogiri::HTML(Net::HTTP.get(host, '/'))
response = Nokogiri::HTML(
  Net::HTTP::get(
    host,
    root.css('form[id="perform-search"]')
        .first['action']
        .concat("?")
        .concat('search-text=he__o')))

puts "Results:"
puts response.css("#search-result li a").map { |n| n['id'] }

puts "Permalink:"
puts response.css('a[rel="bookmark"]').map { |n| n['href'] }