guoyu07 / botsikot

Botsikot is a web application that creates fictional headlines applying Markov Chains and using real headlines as a source material.

Botsikot

Botsikot is a web application that creates fictional headlines applying Markov Chains to real headlines used as source material. Users can give "thumbs up" to headlines displayed in a list. The headlines with the most thumbs up can be tweeted automatically. Botsikot can be customized to generate other kind of content by changing the source material. Botsikot does not work out of the box as it does not include enough source material. You need to manually put the source material to botsikot/protected/data/headings and comment out line 13 in botsikot/protected/commands/GenerateCommand.php You can also implement your own way of fetching the source material from a database.

Dependencies

• Yii Framework 1.1.14 ( http://www.yiiframework.com/download/ )
• PHP 5.1.6 or newer
• php5-curl
• Apache mod_rewrite
• MySQL
• APC-Cache

Installation

• git clone https://github.com/Yleisradio/botsikot.git
• cd botsikot/protected
• ./deploy.sh
• Download the latest version of Yii framework (1.x.x) from http://www.yiiframework.com/download/
• Edit the correct location of Yii framework to botsikot/shared/config/bootstrap.php (line 6)
• Create MySQL credentials and database
• Configure the correct database information to botsikot/shared/config/common.php
• ./deploy.sh
• php5 botsikot/protected/yiic.php migrate

Usage

Generating headings

You need to customize botsikot/protected/command/GenerateCommand.php for this to work with your source material. php5 botsikot/protected/ yiic.php generate

Send Tweets

php5 botsikot/protected/ yiic.php sendTweet

Updating

• git reset --hard
• git pull https://github.com/Zeikko/botsikot.git
• cd kato-ite/protected
• ./deploy.sh

Thanks to

• Github user grantslatton - Python script for generating headings https://github.com/grantslatton
• Ryan McGeary - Timeago is a jQuery plugin http://timeago.yarp.com/
• James Mallison - Twitter-API-PHP : Simple PHP wrapper for the v1.1 API http://github.com/j7mbo/twitter-api-php
• Clevertech - YiiBooster http://yiibooster.clevertech.biz/
• limi7less - minScript https://bitbucket.org/limi7less/minscript/wiki/Home