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PowerShell - Speak random cat facts (https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/6550a7/using_powershell_for_office_pranks)
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Sadly the original API used for this appears to have been deprecated by Google. | |
But I found another! Hazur! Cheezeburgers for all. | |
Full credit to the original post for the absolutely amazing idea and coming up with the logic, I've just replaced | |
the API used to be http://www.catfact.info/ |
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#Run this every 1/2 hour and in an 8 hour work day there will be approximately 3 times per day that your victim hears a cat fact | |
if ((Get-Random -Maximum 10000) -lt 1875) { | |
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech | |
$SpeechSynth = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer | |
$Random = Get-Random -Maximum 200 | |
$CatFact = (ConvertFrom-Json (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://www.catfact.info/api/v1/facts.json?per_page=200)).Facts[$Random] | |
$SpeechSynth.Speak("did you know?") | |
$SpeechSynth.Speak($CatFact.details) | |
} |
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