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Can you tell us more about your "bot's web output"? I've been going over an idea, on and off, around having some automated system scrape pages for me, stripping

by movedx 9y ago

Can you tell us more about your "bot's web output"? I've been going over an idea, on and off, around having some automated system scrape pages for me, stripping them down into something much leaner so I can offline them and load them up whenever I like. Is this what you have going on here?

stephengillie 9y ago
It's not quite that fancy - she's just a loop switching over an RNG, looking up words against a random API, and speaking the output. The input words come from my clipboard, any errors she generates, and randomly from her word:meaning database. The APIs are Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia, and DDG's Instant Answers. She finds some very interesting definitions. Instead of writing to a console, she writes her output to a web page - along with using the .NET libraries to speak, if my phone's MAC address is on the same LAN as her. She waits a random amount of time before speaking again, and the webpage has a simple meta tag set to refresh in the same number of seconds.