Andersen Tales (provider)

A provider skill for ovos-common-reading-pipeline-plugin, delivering Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale of all." — Hans Christian Andersen

This skill has no standalone voice interface. It registers no intents and never speaks. It only answers ovos.common_reading.* bus messages, so you also need ovos-common-reading-pipeline-plugin installed and added to your pipeline config for it to be useful at all.

Install

pip install ovos-skill-andersen-tales ovos-common-reading-pipeline-plugin

Languages

Sourced live from andersenstories.com, which offers exactly 7 languages: EN, DA, DE, ES, FR, IT, NL.

This provider does not translate. On any other device language, it doesn't just decline to answer searches - it never loads at all: initialize() checks the device's language against SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES before building any index or registering any bus events, and logs a clear message if the language isn't supported, rather than silently serving English (or any other) content. Set your device to one of the 7 supported languages to use this provider.

Author/collection name and collection_hint aliases are also per-language, not hardcoded English - a Danish device announces "H.C. Andersen" / "H.C. Andersens Eventyr" instead of the English "Hans Christian Andersen" / "Andersen's Fairy Tales". See locale/<lang>/collection.voc (aliases) and locale/<lang>/collection_meta.json (author/collection name), loaded via OVOS's own resource file resolution rather than Python constants - see ovos-common-reading-pipeline-plugin#26 for the full reasoning. This also means every supported language has its own locale/<lang>/skill.json, so the Skills Store can see this provider genuinely supports 7 languages, not just English.

Collection hints

Responds to collection_hint values in the device's own language - e.g. "andersen"/"hans christian andersen" on English, "andersen"/"h.c. andersen" on Danish - matched fuzzily against that language's own alias list (see locale/<lang>/collection.voc).

Content type

Always identifies as content_type: "story". A search with a content_type hint for anything else (e.g. "article", "poem") gets no response from this provider.

Credits

Content sourced from andersenstories.com. Scraping/caching logic ported from ovos-skill-fairytales.

Category

Entertainment

Tags

#stories #fairytales #andersen #provider