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I was using a REST API at https://textance.herokuapp.com/title but it seems awfully fragile. Sure enough this morning, the entire application is down. It’s also not open-source and I have no idea who actually runs this thing.

Here’s the solution:

#!/bin/bash

url=$(pbpaste)
curl $url -so - | pup 'meta[property=og:title] attr{content}'

It does require pup. On macOS, you can install via brew install pup.

There are other ways using regular expressions but no dependency on pup but parsing HTML with regex is not such a good idea.

“Enlightenment is the absolute cooperation with the inevitable.” - Anthony De Mello. Although he writes like a Buddhist, apparently he’s a Jesuit.

Still thinking about interlinear glossing for my language learning project. The leizig.js library is great but my use case isn’t really what the author had in mind. I really just need to display a unit consisting of the word as it appears in the text, the lemma for that word form, and (possibly) the part of speech. For academic linguistics purposes, what I have in mind is completely non-standard.

The other issue with leizig.js for my use case is that I need to be able to respond to click events on individual words so that they can be tagged, defined or otherwise worked with. It’s straightforward how I could apply CSS id attributes to word-level elements to support that functionality.