Every 60 minutes this Python script posts to @thelickbot The majority of the original functionality implemented by @catleball for TMNT Wikipedia bot @wiki_tmnt - I've just changed the meter searching and the image macroing.
For fun! Inspired by https://twitter.com/insanerainmusic/status/1186288069986734080, and original setup (TMNT Wikipedia bot) inspired by https://xkcd.com/1412/
When it runs, it:
- Pulls 10 random Wikipedia article titles
- Checks if they are in a suitable prosody/meter to match The Lick (or a variant of it)
- If not, pull 10 more articles ad infinitum until a match is found
- Create an image containing The Lick phrase and the found lyrics underneath
- Post the title and generated music to @thelickbot
This script requires the following:
- Python >= 3.7
- Earlier may work, only tested on 3.7
- Chrome >= 57
- Via PyPi:
- pronouncing
- num2words
- PIL (pillow)
- pyphen
- syllables
- tweepy
- wikipedia
For @thelickbot it runs on a cron job on my local machine.
I haven't defined a config file format yet, it's in the TODO list below. Common config knobs are currently mostly in lib/constants.py.
I'm not developing this for anyone but myself, so you may see some anti-patterns like hardcoded paths specific to my environment, and general lack of configurability outside editing the source.
Given this runs once per hour, I'm not very concerned about performance. I often choose slow, but readable and easy-to-implement solutions.
TODO:
- Setup a Twitter bot for this