I wrote a script to automatically apply Grammarly corrections

The title makes it sound like its fixing 100s of Grammarly errors, as if Grammarly wasn&#x27;t providing correct english responses.<p>But as i understand, its enabling a &#x27;I&#x27;m Feeling Lucky&#x27; kinda blanket fix on a document.<p>Consider revising title.

That wouldn&#x27;t work for me because many of Grammarly&#x27;s corrections in my documents are clearly wrong. I&#x27;m using the Pro version. Grammarly is good for making suggestions but unusable for blind spell checking. It just doesn&#x27;t know enough words, and some of its grammatical and style features also sometimes go astray.

Speaking of Grammarly, are there any good offline tools of similar scope and competency?<p>I don&#x27;t really relish the fact that these services have access to potentially very personal information.<p>Even with the best of intentions, there is no guarantee that now or later some of the information ends up being used in novel and shady ways.

I&#x27;d say this &quot;applies all Grammarly suggestions&quot;.

Grammarly is wrong so often that I wouldn’t want to automatically apply fixes. My typical Grammarly workflow involves a rejecting most of its suggestions and approving the small proportion that actually make sense.

What kind of documents are you typing that you wouldn’t want to learn from your mistakes? If you apply more than a handful of “fixes” at once, you cannot see what changed, right? And you also don’t know if the sentences still make sense? Or am I missing something here?

Off topic, but an interesting tidbit is that the grammar checking backend is built in lisp [1] and has been discussed on HN previously [2]:<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.grammarly.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;running-lisp-in-production&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.grammarly.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;running-lisp-in-p...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?q=grammarly+lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?q=grammarly+lisp</a>

Sure, &quot;one click fix&quot; then you wonder why it replaced place&#x2F;product&#x2F;people name with stuff that doesn&#x27;t make sense.<p>Grammarly probably should have a limited &quot;autofix&quot; for the most basic stuff, surely. But just &quot;fix all&quot; causes more problems than solves it.

Interesting idea, but I wouldn&#x27;t use it, because at 10-20% of Grammarly&#x27;s corrections are wrong.<p>It even includes endless loops.

Curiosity: why Grammarly and not LanguageTool?<p>For me: English isn&#x27;t my native language and LanguageTool have all languages I need.

I am surprised no one ever gamified English exercises tailoring the learning experience on the basis of mistakes done by each individual user. You can identify clearly all your weakness, Grammarly fix the, why not building up exercises to fix them at its root?

Grammarly ads say that they will help you to appear more articulate than you are, so that you can land jobs where articulacy is required. It stumps me a bit, always.

Yeah, well, if we could have &quot;one-click&quot; to fix it all, that&#x27;d be fantastic! Just felt like sharing here.

Sorry but how to use this? And could author make it a firefox plugin? That would be very handy!

Anyone read the code and find the lack of formatting kind of odd?

@isneu: I think you can make a bookmarklet out of your script

Weird headline wording suggests grammerly is wrong and this guy fixed it.