Quick and dirty Chuck Norris python script. Used in our SVN post commit hook. In case you don't have the requests library: yum install python-requests.noarch

random_chuck.py

import json, requests

url = 'http://api.icndb.com/jokes/random'

params = dict(
    category='nerdy'
)

resp = requests.get(url=url, params=params)
data = json.loads(resp.content)

print data['value']['joke']