Electronic Fortune Cookies for Fun

Posted by: mistan

Preamble

Fortune is a simple program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations. In this blog, I am going to shown you that those electronic cookies -random poignat, inspirational, silly or snide phrases – can make your digital life surprisingly fun, just like a fortune cookies after meal.

Installation -fortune, cow and pony

Following installation guide is based on Arch Official site.

Display a piece of ASCII image

Bash can be made to display a piece of ASCII images, and display at a terminal on login, with following:

~/.bashrc

cat /path/to/text/file/

Display fortune cookie phrases with fortune-mode

sudo pacman -S fortune-mode

To have a random phrase displayed when logging into a terminal, use:

~/.bashrc

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command fortune

Combine both with a Cow

pacman -S cowsay

and you can make the cow deliver the fortune cookie for you; or pick a different one from the list located in /usr/share/cows.

cowsay -l

or, pick an ASCII image from online or design one yourself:

cowsay -f /path/to/file $(fortune)

add to your ~/.bashrc:

command cowthink $(fortune)

_______________________________________

/ Forecast, n.: A prediction of the \

| future, based on the past, for which |

| the forecaster demands payment in the |

\ present. /

---------------------------------------

\ ^__^

\ (oo)\_______

(__)\ )\/\

||----w |

|| ||

Nice Eye Candy with more complex lines

command fortune -a | fmt -80 -s | $(shuf -n 1 -e cowsay cowthink) -$(shuf -n 1 -e b d g p s t w y) -f $(shuf -n 1 -e $(cowsay -l | tail -n +2)) -n

fortune -c | cowthink -f $(find /usr/share/cows -type f | shuf -n 1) #random cows

_________________________________________________

/ Adolescence, n.: \

\ The stage between puberty and adultery. /

-------------------------------------------------

oO)-. .-(Oo

/__ _\ /_ __\

\ \( | ()~() | )/ /

\__|\ | (-___-) | /|__/

' '--' ==`-'== '--' '

If you prefers a pony (with color)

sudo pacman -S ponysay

ponysay $(fortune)

Get more fortunes from wikiquote

First, grap some premade ones

yaourt -S fortune-mod-all-en

they will be stored in /use/share/fortune/

Generate fortuen yourself from Wikiquote with wikiquote-fortune

Install wikiquote-fortune

yaourt -S wikiquote-fortune

test it out, with a show name (the part follows after this https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/):

wikiquote-fortune Inside_Out_$2015_film$

cat quotes #the defaut name

strfile quotes #create .dat file for random access

Here is somthing I came up with to make life a bit easier

Generate show file with your shows

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cat ./shows
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InsideOut Inside Out (2015 film)
InPlainSight In Plain Sight

Use following script (getquote.sh) to generate the quotes

./getquote.sh

---------------------------------------------

!/usr/bin/sh

#get the short showname from file ("shows")

showlist=$(cat shows |cut -f 1);

mkdir -p fortune;

for show in $showlist;

realshow=$(cat shows |grep "^"$show"" |cut -f 2) &&

real_show=$(echo $realshow |sed -e "s: :_:g") &&

# retrieve info with wikiquote-fortune

wikiquote-fortune $real_show &&

# create random access file (quotes.dat) with strfile

strfile quotes &&

# rename the file to its showname from default one ("quotes")

mv quotes.dat ./fortune/$show.dat &&

mv quotes ./fortune/$show ;

done

NB: bash -x ./getquote to debug if needed. man fortune for more info.

Make it excutable chmod +x, try it and enjoy!!
copy the quotes and .dat file to user/share/fortune

NB: does not work with quotes other than movies; some other script may be worthy of mention.

Retrieve wikiquote other than movies

The following is a python script I wrote to retrieve quotes from wikiquote.

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#!/bin/python

#####################################################################

# Scrapting wikiquotes for fortunes.

# Usage: get the showname from wikiquote.com, eg. life or philosophy

# run 'python this-script', and input the showname when prompted.

# which is the piece after https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/[....]

# and copy fortune and its dat file to /usr/share/fortune/

# Author: Y Tan 02/21/2017-08:25:34 PM

#####################################################################

import urllib.request

import urllib.parse

import json

import lxml.html

import subprocess

WORD_BLACKLIST = ['quoted', 'Variant:', 'Retrieved', 'Notes:']

MIN_QUOTE_LEN = 6

MIN_QUOTE_WORDS = 3

MAIN_PAGE = "Main Page"

# max_quotes = 10

# prompt for showname

subject = input(

"Input the subject from wikiquote \nwhich is the piece after https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/[....]:")

url = "https://en.wikiquote.org/w/api.php?format=json" \

"&action=parse&prop=text|categories&disableeditsection&page=" + subject

res = urllib.request.urlopen(url)

body = res.read().decode()

data = json.loads(body)

html_content = data['parse']['text']['*']

tree = lxml.html.fromstring(html_content)

def is_quote(txt):

txt_split = txt.split()

invalid_conditions = [

not txt or not txt[0].isupper() or len(txt) < MIN_QUOTE_LEN,

len(txt_split) < MIN_QUOTE_WORDS,

any(True for word in txt_split if word in WORD_BLACKLIST),

txt.endswith(('(', ':', ']')),

]

# Returns false if any invalid conditions are true, otherwise returns True.

return not any(invalid_conditions)

def is_quote_node(node):

# Discard nodes with the <small> tag

if node.find('small') is not None:

return False

# Discard nodes that are just a link

# (using xpath so lxml will show text nodes)

# The link may be inside <i> or <b> tags, so keep peeling layers

suspect_node = node

while True:

node_children = suspect_node.xpath('child::node()')

if len(node_children) != 1:

break

suspect_node = node_children[0]

if not isinstance(suspect_node, lxml.etree._Element):

break

# if suspect_node.tag == 'a':

# return False

return True

quotes_list = []

# Remove table of contents

toc_list = tree.xpath('//div[@id="toc"]')

for toc in toc_list:

toc.getparent().remove(toc)

# Scan list items description tags inside description lists.

# Also grab headlines to skip some sections.

node_list = tree.xpath('//div/ul/li|//div/dl|//h2')

# Skip all quotes above the first heading

skip_to_next_heading = True

for node in node_list:

if node.tag != 'h2' and skip_to_next_heading:

continue

if node.tag == 'h2':

skip_to_next_heading = False

heading_text = node.text_content().lower()

# Commence skipping

if heading_text in ('cast', 'see also', 'See also', 'external links'):

skip_to_next_heading = True

continue

# <dl>'s are assumed to be multi-line dialogue

if node.tag == 'dl':

dds = node.xpath('dd')

if not all(is_quote_node(dd) for dd in dds):

continue

full_dialogue = '\n'.join(

dd.text_content().strip()

for dd in dds)

quotes_list.append(full_dialogue)

# if max_quotes == len(quotes_list):

# break

continue

# Handle <li>'s -to extract author and remove it from quotes

uls = node.xpath('ul')

author = ''

for ul in uls:

author = ul.text_content().strip()

author = ' '.join(author.split())

author = '\n\n\t---\t' + author

ul.getparent().remove(ul)

if not is_quote_node(node):

continue

txt = node.text_content().strip()

if is_quote(txt): # and max_quotes > len(quotes_list):

txt_normal = ' '.join(txt.split())

txt_normal += author

quotes_list.append(txt_normal)

# quotes_list.append(author)

# if max_quotes == len(quotes_list):

# global quotes_list1

# quotes_list1 = '\n%\n'.join(quotes_list)

# break

quotes_list1 = '\n%\n'.join(quotes_list)

# print(quotes_list1)

with open("/home/tan/org/fortune/" + subject, "w") as text_file:

print("%\n: {}\n%".format(quotes_list1), file=text_file)

subprocess.call(["strfile", "/home/tan/org/fortune/" + subject])

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