From 16fd4078fe971f021064460a2f6762b764549d7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kelly Rauchenberger Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 10:35:03 -0500 Subject: Added readme --- README.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..243ef97 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# nancy +nancy is a simple twitter bot inspired by the following tweet: + +

Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Ovipositor

— ruben ferdinand✨ (@urbanfriendden) March 9, 2016
+ + +It tweets a new Nancy Drew ebook title every three hours. Currently, it uses the [WordNet database](http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/) to pick adjectives and nouns describing the Nancy's latest misadventures. + +The bot uses [YAMLcpp](https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp) to read a configuration file, MySQL C API to read the WordNet database (seeded with [this MySQL version of WordNet 2.0](androidtech.com/html/wordnet-mysql-20.php)), and [twitcurl](https://github.com/swatkat/twitcurl) to send the status updates to Twitter. + +The canonical furries handle is [@nancy_ebooks](https://twitter.com/nancy_ebooks). -- cgit 1.4.1