bholagabbar / crackmeup

CrackMeUp scrapes dank jokes off popular websites and serves it through an API to a Twitter bot and CLI

The original crackmeup has transmogrified into the CrackMeUp Twitter Bot and the CrackMeUp Joke API! Say hi to the bot on twitter @crackmeupbot and find the API at crackmeup-api.herokuapp.com.

crackmeup

crackmeup is a Python based web-crawler of sorts, that scrapes data off popular joke websites and shows you a random joke everytime you run it

Work still in progress.

To run in dev setup, you need Python 2.7 installed and the BeautifulSoup package.

Installation:

• Get Python here
• Installing BeautifulSoup:
  1. Go to the directory where Python is installed.
  2. Enter the Scripts folder
  3. Open up the terminal in Linux/cmd in Windows pointing to this location
  4. Windows: pip install beautifulsoup4, Linux: sudo pip install beautifulsoup4 (if pip is not installed, then run sudo apt-get install python-pip)

Execution:

Enter the crackmeup folder and in terminal, run python crackmeup.py.

Enjoy your random joke!

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