Toy project that to create fortune files from Zulip messages.

Files included:

• zufortune.py dumps the latest zulip messages into a file to formatted to be used with the UNIX command fortune. It then updates the fortune binary in the same script. Can be used wonderfully in combination with a cron job to grab the newest ~350 messages every N minutes.
• zufortune_continuous.py uses the polling Humbug client to get all next messages and dump them to the fortune file. It then updates the fortune binary in the same script.
• cowputer.cow is the Hacker School logo as ascii art to be passed into cowsay.

Zulip (formerly known as Humbug) is a chatroom used at Hacker School (and other places). Zusay uses the Zulip API to dump messages from Zulip into a correctly formmated fortune file for usage with the Unix fortune command for fun and profit.

Example usage:

• Download and setup the Zulip API bindings.
• Download fortune and cowsay. (available on brew for OSX, and apt-get for Debian*)
• Set up your ~/.humbugrc as described above or pass in your API key manually to the program.
• Run python zufortune.py.
• Run fortune -s fortunetext | cowsay and giggle.

Optional usage:

cp cowputer.cow to wherever your cow files are located.

On OSX & brew, mine were located at /usr/local/Cellar/cowsay/3.03/share/cows

Run fortune -s fortunetext | cowsay -f cowputer

/ Ha that was very informative, thank \
\ you.                                /
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  \     ::         ::
        :: Made at ::
        ::         ::
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             ::
        Hacker School
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(this was a real fortune generated!!)