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RMRK General => Creativity => Topic started by: bluntsword on December 04, 2015, 10:33:50 PM
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What kind of effort would it take to code a program to grab text from a website (specifically this (http://donjon.bin.sh/) one) and put it into a mostly ordered but somewhat random progression?
For instance:
Have the program grab the first paragraph under theme here (http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/adventure/), and then two character's names from here (http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/random/#type=npc;order=Adventurer).
I know "Well just copy and paste it" is a good solution but SURELY there's got to be a way to code something that could just grab peices of that website and throw it into a text document.
The result would look like a story, or at least an outline of one.
Am I making sense?
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I don't think coding the program itself would be that hard, but I think the information would need to be organized into some sort of database first.
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Hmm.
So hit "random" on those things a ton, catalog them, then write program?
I assume there would need to be a fair bit of "this goes here" and "insert this over there."
So technical.
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Yeah pretty much.
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This.
I need help thinking about how to edit something like this to do what I'm looking for.
http://pastebin.com/vktYxMw6
This comes from this NaNoGenMo post: https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/168