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send cat facts to your friends logged into a ews/server. netid = username if you're not from uiuc
# if netid is logged in, send a random cat fact to all of its terminals.
# usage: crontab -e. paste in:
# 0 * * * * python ~/catfact.py
# logs in ~/victims.txt
# why did i spend so much time on this.
# this got me banned from the school servers for two days
messagechance = 5 # 1 is 1%, 99 is 99%. keep in mind this will only run if they're logged in.
postscript = '\n this has been an automated cat fact. contact me to unsubscribe. or to subscribe others.\n'
listofnetids = ['netids','go','here']
import os
import subprocess
import random
from time import gmtime, strftime
# catfacts
import requests
import json
catfact = json.loads(requests.get('http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts').content)["facts"]
#catfact = requests.get('http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts').json()["facts"] # this is an attempt to not use the json li$
FNULL = open(os.devnull, 'w')
who = subprocess.check_output(['who']) # 2.7 compliant
listwho = who.split('\n')
for netid in listofnetids:
if random.randint(1,100) >= messagechance:
continue # to the next netid
print(netid+" won the diceroll!")
ptslist = []
for line in listwho:
if netid in line:
ptslist.append(line.split(' ')[1])
if not ptslist: #if pts is empty
continue # they're not online, diceroll next netid
for pts in ptslist:
p = subprocess.Popen(['write',netid,pts],stdout=FNULL,stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
p.stdin.write(' '+catfact[0]+postscript)
p.stdin.close()
with open("victims.txt","a") as f:
f.write(netid+', '+catfact[0]+' '+strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", gmtime())+'\n')
@albertoruvel
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I created an Android client for you
Find it here: https://github.com/albertoruvel/CatFacts
:)

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ianklatzco commented Sep 20, 2016

i'm flattered! thank you!

@flyingOwl
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Better use split() instead of split(' ') in line 34. My version of who separates the columns by multiple spaces, so split(' ')[1] returns ''.

But nevertheless, thanks for implementing this 😄

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