Subj : Re: Modifications
To   : Warpslide
From : Barmed
Date : Thu Jan 21 2021 10:36:31

On 21 Jan 2021, Warpslide said the following...
 Wa>  Ba> So how do you get the data that you use to create them? Or rather fro
 Wa>  Ba> where?
 Wa> 
 Wa> I get my weather data from here:
 Wa> https://weather.gc.ca/forecast/public_bulletins_e.html?Bulletin=fpcn11.cwt
 Wa> 
 Wa> You'd of course have to find where to get weather local to your region.
 Wa> 

Of course. But that does give me an idea of what I'm looking for.

 Wa> And I get my Horoscope data from here:
 Wa> https://nypost.com/horoscopes
 Wa> 
 Wa> Basically I just use wget to download the .html file and use grep or sed
 Wa> to cut
 Wa> out the pieces I need.  The weather was easier to than the horoscope
 Wa> page due to the number of images.
 Wa> And as Al mentioned, you need to make sure the text is not more than 79 
 Wa> characters wide otherwise Mystic will just cut it off.

That's a shame that it doesn't wrap better, although even at 79 characters
its an adventure on my setup.

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

I've been told some of my copy/paste messages look weird onsome peoples
systems, although I hadn't noticed.  Someone had suggested that it mighy be
due to the fact that Mystic messages don't seem to have a CHRS$ kludge so
other systems didn't know how to interpret. 

I suppose a conversion to CP437 is a better overall solution.

And I do at least skim those messages.

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