Flamingo

Inspiration

Addressing issues that arise with cultural appropriation

What it does

Flamingo allows the user to select a word and get the etymology and definition of a word.

How we built it

We built this as a Google Chrome extension with a Python backend. The chrome extension allows users to grab a word from the page they're browsing to look up. This then gets sent to our API endpoints which check Wiktionary for the possible definitions of the word.

Challenges we ran into

We had some issues deciding on what libraries would help make our process easier and smoother. Additionally, Google limits some functionalities in Chrome Extensions that we were used to using in typical web development (such as which Javascript files held which roles) so we had to find a workaround for those issues.