How to develop a Wox Plugin using Python?

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Wox is a full-featured launcher for the Windows platform. It’s akin to Mac’s Spotlight and can be augmented by a plethora of plugins.

I have been using Wox with the almighty Everything plugin for several years now and have loved it. But I have always resented the unavailability of a working English dictionary plugin that could work offline. So, I embarked on developing a plugin for myself but was frustrated by the lack of documentation available to do the same.

Below, I am sharing how I developed a dictionary plugin, Easy Dictionary, using Python. I hope it would help you in your quest to develop another Python-based plugin for Wox. Easy Dictionary can be installed from the official Wox plugin website. The source code is available on GitHub. Please check it out and you’d understand why I named it an “Easy” dictionary.

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