Grimm Tales (provider)

A provider skill for ovos-common-reading-pipeline-plugin, delivering the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales.

"He who is too well off is always longing for something new." — from "The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage," Brothers Grimm

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-grimm-tales ovos-common-reading-pipeline-plugin

Languages

Sourced live from grimmstories.com, which supports 8 languages here: EN, DA, DE, ES, FR, IT, NL, PT.

Grimmstories.com actually offers 20 languages total - the other 12 (FI, HU, VI, TR, PL, RO, RU, UK, EL, ZH, JA, KO) aren't included here yet since they fall outside OVOS's actively-tracked language set. Portuguese is Grimm-only among the 8 supported here - no equivalent Andersen source exists in Portuguese.

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 8 supported languages to use this provider.

Author/collection name and collection_hint aliases are also per-language, not hardcoded English - "the Brothers Grimm" only makes sense to announce on an English device; a Danish device hears "Brødrene Grimm" instead, and a Danish user saying "brødrene grimm" as a collection_hint matches correctly (not just by luck, the way it would have if we'd only shipped English aliases). 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 8 languages, not just English.

Collection hints

Responds to collection_hint values in the device's own language - e.g. "grimm"/"the brothers grimm" on English, "grimm"/"brødrene grimm" on Danish, "grimm"/"die gebrüder grimm" on German - matched fuzzily against that language's own alias list (see locale/<lang>/collection.voc).

Content type

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

Credits

Content sourced from grimmstories.com. Scraping/caching logic ported from ovos-skill-fairytales and ovos-skill-andersen-tales.

Category

Entertainment

Tags

#stories #fairytales #grimm #provider