Subj : Re: Modifications
To   : Barmed
From : Warpslide
Date : Thu Jan 21 2021 11:19:56

On 21 Jan 2021, Barmed said the following...
 
 Ba> So how do you get the data that you use to create them? Or rather from
 Ba> where?

I get my weather data from here:
https://weather.gc.ca/forecast/public_bulletins_e.html?Bulletin=fpcn11.cwto

You'd of course have to find where to get weather local to your region.


And I get my Horoscope data from here:
https://nypost.com/horoscopes

Basically I just use wget to download the .html file and use grep or sed to cut out the pieces I need.  The weather was easier to than the horoscope page due to the number of images.

And as Al mentioned, you need to make sure the text is not more than 79 characters wide otherwise Mystic will just cut it off.

Another thing I discovered is that Mystic doesn't like UTF8 text when posting via mutil.  I had to figure out how to convert UTF8 text to CP437 using iconv so that every hyphen or apostrophe didn't come out weird in the bot post. 
It was an interesting exercise and I'm glad I got it working.  I learned a little more about using linux by going through it, though I'm not sure anyone ever reads them... lol


Jay

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