Arguments

topic: like tagging, so helga can respond in different ways

learning_type: how helga is going to ingest. Can be text, a url to raw data, a url to dpaste, or a twitter account.

learning_type_source: the corresponding data e.g. plaintext if learning_type is “text”, a url if “url”, twitter screen name if “twitter”, helga_log_reader arguments for “logs” (suggest you go old and use current channel)

The ingest command teaches the bot about the topic from the referenced corpus. You may teach the bot from any number of sources, it can be twitter or text. Mix and matching is fine.

The generate command generates a sentence from the corpus.

The drop command drops a particular topic from storage. If a corpus becomes corrupt for whatever reason, a user may drop it and re-ingest data to populate it again.

Settings

MARKOVIFY_ADD_PUNCTUATION: If we should add periods after lines. You always want good punctuation for good generated sentences, this is a pretty safe “True” by default.

MARKOVIFY_CHANNEL_LISTEN: Ingest current channel chatter. A bit expensive, and possibly not great privacy-wise, but that’s where the lol-train arrives.

MARKOVIFY_CHANNEL_GENERATE: Regex helga listens to to generate response for default channel chatter

MARKOVIFY_TOPIC_DEFAULT: Default ingestion topic for channel data

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET: if using twitter, you’ll want these from your configured twitter apps.

URL

!markovify ingest zen url https://hg.python.org/peps/raw-file/tip/pep-0020.txt
!markovify generate zen
helga> Sparse is better than ugly.

Text

!markovify ingest hitler text "Mein Kampf is the best Kampf."
!markovify ingest hitler text "Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the nazi party."
!markovify ingest hitler text "Make America hate again."
!markovify ingest hitler text "Kampf America is hate nazi smarty. Hate party again filler sentence. America is the best at being terrible."
!markovify generate hitler
helga> Mein Kampf is the best at being terrible.

dpaste

!markovify ingest zen dpaste http://dpaste.com/1JF2P4S
!markovify generate zen
helga> If the implementation is hard to explain, it may be a good idea.

Twitter

!markovify ingest narf twitter narfman0
!markovify generate narf
helga> You won't believe this one weird trick to get the target populace hooked.
!markovify generate narf
helga> FOSS: it only takes one highly incentivized dealer to get 4057$ a month doing nothing!

Channel logs

!markovify ingest channel logs --channel #bots --start_date 1999-01-01
!markovify generate channel
helga> dropbox serving it does ASAP

helga, thoughts?
helga> it could be a crackhead, who wants to haskell bees

Drop corpus

If you have somehow screwed up or broken a corpus, you may drop it completely:

!markovify drop zen