hugovk / wotdbot

Word of the day robot for tweeting a word of the day

wotdbot

Word-of-the-day robot for tweeting a word of the day.

First you need a list of Wiktionary words. There's a Finnish one in the data directory. It was made like this

Download enwiktionary-20140118-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 (484.5M) or newer from the Wiktionary data dumps and unzip. Then run:

python wotdbot_extract_words.py > data/finnish.txt

For other languages, change "Finnish" in the if and "fi" in the regex.

Then run like from a scheduled task/crontab:

python wotdbot.py --wordlist data/finnish.txt --yaml data/wotdbot.yaml --no-web

See an example at https://twitter.com/fiwotd

wotdbot's Issues

Escaping escapes from Tweetian

For example:

täyttyä

https://twitter.com/fiwotd/status/456333690251907072

has a link like this:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t%C3%A4ytty%C3%A4#Finnish

which shows like this in Chrome:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/täyttyä#Finnish

but when opening in Opera Mobile (via Tweetian) it uses this URL:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t%25C3%25A4ytty%25C3%25A4#Finnish

Bad title

Sorry: the page title you requested is not supported by our software. It is possible that the entry you are looking for is below; if not, please request it or add it yourself.

Something is replacing the escaping the percent symbol to %25, when really the percent is already part of an escape sequence.

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If I copy and paste the URL into Opera Mobile, Opera Mini or Web it works, so this is probably a Tweetian problem.