Environmental Ipsum

The environmentally conscious way to make filler text!

Files

• README.md
  • Self-explanatory.
• LICENSE
  • Self-explanatory.
• globe.gif
  • the spinning globe gif in the header.
  • Graciously borrowed from here.
• index.html
  • Your standard index.
  • Styles are all inline (there weren’t too many) .
• script.js
  • A small helper file which contains the (<10 lines) logic to communicate with the backend.
• usgs.py
  • Python scraper to grab the text content of USGS publication abstracts.
• nasa.py
  • Python scraper to grab the text content of NASA news articles.
• removeNames.cpp
  • Removes any line of text from markov_initial2.txt which contains more than two capital letters.
  • I wanted to avoid any potential proper nouns / names being generated, so this was my solution to this without spending time using R for named entity extraction :) .
  • No particular reason for this to be in c++, just wanted a change of pace.
• markov_initial2.txt
  • Output from the Markov library found here.
  • I didn’t include the file itself, as my minor modifications didn’t warrant a whole new file.
• clean_markov2.txt
  • Output from removeNames, used in the backend.
• usgs_pubs.txt
  • Scraped abstracts obtained from usgs.py.
• ipsum.php
  • Small PHP7 script to handle returning random ipsum sentences / paragraphs to the user.
• eipsum-cli.sh
  • Bash script so I can get environmentally conscious ipsum from my terminal :) .

Running

If you wish to run everything as is, you’ll need:

• g++ (or your preferred compiler)
• BeautifulSoup4
• PHP7+ installed
  • If you remove type hinting, PHP5+ would work.
• Python
  • v2 or v3 is fine.

I just want my environmentally conscious ipsum!

you’re in luck

I have an issue with a line of text generated!

Open up a pull request removing the line from the list of strings and I’ll take a look.