The Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary API does not provide a way to retrieve a word's syllable division. That is, which letters are part of which syllable in a multisyllabic word.
merriamScraper.py scrapes Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary (collegiate) for requested words' syllable division and first listed phonetic spelling.
If a word's first listed phonetic spelling depends on its part of speech, a line for each phonetic spelling and associated part of speech will be returned.
Returned info is printed to standard output.
python3.6 merriamScraper.py REQUEST
REQUEST may be a word or a text file. If a text file, merriamScraper.py will scrape Merriam Webster's for each line of the text file.