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Get specified number of cat facts from the Cat Facts API (http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/)
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| library("RCurl") | |
| library("RJSONIO") | |
| catfacts <- function(number=1){ | |
| if(is.null(number) || is.na(as.numeric(number)) || number < 1) | |
| stop("'number' must be a positive integer") | |
| fromJSON(getURL(paste('http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts?number=', number, sep='')))$facts | |
| } | |
| # Some examples | |
| catfacts() | |
| catfacts(5) | |
| # ASCII cat saying cat facts | |
| library("cowsay") | |
| say(catfacts(),'cat') |
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Hi, the API seems to be unavailable. This is the error message:
"Python 2.5 is no longer available. Please refer to https://goo.gl/aESk5L for more information."
I can't find any info about the owner of the API so can't "complain" to them directly. I hope you have more info...
Cheers,
Lucas