Experimenting with the margopher package to generate quotes

q.go

package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/AhmedZaleh/margopher"
)

var (
	url   = flag.String("url", "http://data.c7.se/quotes/science.html", "The URL to read from")
	count = flag.Int("n", 3, "The number of sentences to generate")
)

func main() {
	flag.Parse()

	margopher := margopher.New()
	margopher.ReadURL(*url)

	for i := 1; i <= *count; i++ {
		fmt.Println(margopher.Generate() + "\n")
	}
}

q.js

// Run on http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesScience.html in order to get the quotes a JSON string
// Save as q.json

var d = []; 
for each (q in document.getElementsByTagName("blockquote")) { d.push(q.textContent) };  
window.prompt("Copy!", JSON.stringify(d));

q.rb

require 'json'

data = JSON.parse(File.read('q.json'))

puts "<article>"
data.compact.each do |d|
  s = (d.split("—")[0].
       gsub("\n", "").
       gsub('"', "").
       gsub(" ?", "?").
       gsub(" !", "!").
       gsub("?A", "? A")).strip

  puts "  <p>#{s}</p>" if s.size > 10
end
puts "</article>"

A few interesting examples of generated output:

• Engineers think that any conclusion must be very hot.
• In the beginning the Universe obeys a set of rules.
• Nuclear war could alleviate some of the three major scientific awards.
• Very few people do anything but creation science.
• Round numbers are always successful.
• He uses statistics as a novelty item back here on Earth.
• There are three kinds of people: those who make empty prophecies.
• A scientist can discover a new problem.