/environmental-ipsum

Source behind environmental-ipsum.com

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Environmental Ipsum

The environmentally conscious way to make filler text!

Files

  • README.md
    • Self-explanatory.
  • LICENSE
    • Self-explanatory.
  • globe.gif
    • the spinning globe gif in the header.
    • Graciously borrowed from here.
  • index.html
    • Your standard index.
    • Styles are all inline (there weren't too many) .
  • script.js
    • A small helper file which contains the (<10 lines) logic to communicate with the backend.
  • usgs.py
    • Python scraper to grab the text content of USGS publication abstracts.
  • nasa.py
    • Python scraper to grab the text content of NASA news articles.
  • removeNames.cpp
    • Removes any line of text from markov_initial2.txt which contains more than two capital letters.
    • I wanted to avoid any potential proper nouns / names being generated, so this was my solution to this without spending time using R for named entity extraction :) .
    • No particular reason for this to be in c++, just wanted a change of pace.
  • markov_initial2.txt
    • Output from the Markov library found here.
    • I didn't include the file itself, as my minor modifications didn't warrant a whole new file.
  • clean_markov2.txt
    • Output from removeNames, used in the backend.
  • usgs_pubs.txt
    • Scraped abstracts obtained from usgs.py.
  • ipsum.php
    • Small PHP7 script to handle returning random ipsum sentences / paragraphs to the user.
  • eipsum-cli.sh
    • Bash script so I can get environmentally conscious ipsum from my terminal :) .

Running

If you wish to run everything as is, you'll need:

  • g++ (or your preferred compiler)
  • BeautifulSoup4
  • PHP7+ installed
    • If you remove type hinting, PHP5+ would work.
  • Python
    • v2 or v3 is fine.

I just want my environmentally conscious ipsum!

you're in luck

I have an issue with a line of text generated!

Open up a pull request removing the line from the list of strings and I'll take a look.