fontbot

Choose word, choose font, tweet.

Algorithm	Example
![modus operandi](http://g.gravizo.com/g?digraph G { "take last 10 random tweets" -> "get first interesting word" -> "pick random font" -> "render the word using the chosen font" -> "tweet the image" -> "take last 10 random tweets" })

log

2016-07-16

Closed all remaining issues, fontbot is ready to deploy.

2016-07-12

Choosing random font:

C:\Users\Piotr\Documents\fontbot>stack exec fontbot-exe
found 33 fonts
randomly chosen font: Cantarell-Bold.ttf

C:\Users\Piotr\Documents\fontbot>stack exec fontbot-exe
found 33 fonts
randomly chosen font: Cantarell-Bold.ttf

C:\Users\Piotr\Documents\fontbot>stack exec fontbot-exe
found 33 fonts
randomly chosen font: LearningCurve_OT.ttf

C:\Users\Piotr\Documents\fontbot>stack exec fontbot-exe
found 33 fonts
randomly chosen font: Quicksand-Italic.ttf

C:\Users\Piotr\Documents\fontbot>stack exec fontbot-exe
found 33 fonts
randomly chosen font: Exo-SemiBold.ttf

C:\Users\Piotr\Documents\fontbot>stack exec fontbot-exe
found 33 fonts
randomly chosen font: Quicksand-BoldItalic.ttf

C:\Users\Piotr\Documents\fontbot>stack exec fontbot-exe
found 33 fonts
randomly chosen font: Quicksand-Bold.ttf

Full process implemented:

2016-07-09

Interesting changes today:

• slightly changed tweet search keyword - "a" produces much more random results
• cleaned up retrieved interesting words
• chained the tweet-generating functions together:
  • tweet retrieval
  • font preview generation
  • tweeting

Now, when executed, the fontbot grabs the first interesting word out of a batch of retrieved tweets, generates the image (fixed font) and tweets it.

2016-07-07

Playing with (very simple) regular expressions and extracting potentially interesting words:

search metadata:
- query: "Haskell"
status:
"This must be a canonical choice among isomorphic objects."
first interesting word:
 canonical

2017-07-06

I added more fonts and think I'm finally happy with the media size and text positioning:

2016-07-05

Playing with regular expressions:

search metadata:
- query: "Haskell"
raw status:
"Win a copy of James Haskell: RugbyFit https://t.co/rh3q5CiXgG"
filtered status:
James
---
raw status:
"The recent watercolor paintings of Ann Jones will be on display at the Hall Haskell House Gallery in Ipswich. .... https://t.co/Vd1E6HG7y6"
filtered status:
paintings
---
raw status:
"RT @joshuaclayton: Three months into learning #haskell with @haskellbook! Wrote up how to refactor to a monad transformer stack: https://t.\8230"
filtered status:
months
---

2016-07-03

Fontbot can now render text to images.

2016-07-02

Fontbot can now read and process twitter search results:

$ stack exec fontbot-exe
search metadata:
- query: "Haskell"
status:
"RT @notsleeeping: @TVG American Freedom looked good! Baffert might have his Haskell horse, going for #9, & for 6 wins in the last 7 Haskell\8230"
---
status:
"RT @Steve_Byk: @DRFHersh @EaSyGoEr53 As of tonight, Baffert leaning American Freedom to Haskell, Arrogate toward Travers."
---
status:
"Vintage Miriam Haskell signed double chain necklace Russian gold gilt pendant  https://t.co/Pxrt595goI https://t.co/q6VyXN9XCW"
---

2016-07-01

Once the POC tweeting mechanism was ready, I decided not to reinvent the wheel going further and to use the twitter-conduit.

Sample Tweet

2016-06-28

Fontbot can now tweet using manually prepared OAuth signature read from external file.

C:\Users\Piotr\Documents\fontbot>stack exec fontbot-exe
is_quote_status: false
in_reply_to_status_id: null
id_str: '747879477645049856'
truncated: false
in_reply_to_screen_name: null
entities:
  symbols: []
  urls: []
  user_mentions: []
  hashtags: []
text: Hello World From Haskell with OAuth header value taken from external file!
in_reply_to_user_id_str: null
favorited: false
coordinates: null
retweeted: false
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  screen_name: HaskellFontbot
  is_translation_enabled: false
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        - 23
        display_url: github.com/PiotrJustyna/f
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  created_at: Sun Jun 26 14:17:43 +0000 2016
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lang: en
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in_reply_to_user_id: null
created_at: Tue Jun 28 19:48:57 +0000 2016
source: <a href="https://github.com/PiotrJustyna/fontbot" rel="nofollow">fontbot</a>
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