Random Aircraft Quiz Bot WIP

fearlessfrog · February 11, 2017, 3:56am

Wow - what are the chances of that!?

Try again?

fearlessfrog · February 11, 2017, 3:57am

I think it’s a Yakovlev AIR-1 or a broken link.

If it happens, delete the post and re-roll. We’re at the mercy of wikipedian’s accuracy and one bad pumpkin spice latte away from a broken link.

Bogusheadbox · February 11, 2017, 7:37am

@Bogusheadbox has asked for a Random Aircraft quiz.

Answer below (no peeking!)

What did you expect Mr B?

Its soooooooo beautiful. Its like the website knows. Good website gooooooood

miRage · February 11, 2017, 9:58am

Is it an F-14?

Bogusheadbox · February 11, 2017, 10:00am

Only if I squint punch myself in the face and poor salt in my good eye

TheAlmightySnark · February 11, 2017, 12:06pm

According to my CNN chart, it’s either a Cessna, Boeing, Mig, or F-22…

miRage · February 11, 2017, 7:47pm

I think I’ve seen it before… somewhere…

near_blind · February 11, 2017, 7:52pm

Bogusheadbox · February 15, 2017, 11:24am

@Bogusheadbox has asked for a Random Aircraft quiz.

Answer below (no peeking!)

What did you expect Mr B?

komemiute · September 12, 2017, 7:13am

@komemiute has asked for a Random Aircraft quiz.

Answer below (no peeking!)

[Canadair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair)

komemiute · September 12, 2017, 7:14am

Uuh. Well’that’s obvioulsy the Stealth Plane?

komemiute · September 12, 2017, 7:15am

[randomfood]
[randomchick]
[randomdoughnut]
[randomgun]
[randomA6intruder]
[randomcar]

dang… I thought there was more choice.

Hey anyone, can the script be re-worked so it separates [random] from the next word and actually fish out a relevant image?

Andrew116 · September 12, 2017, 2:18pm

Clearly a Dash 8 Q400…

Also that pic result is hilarious. I wish I knew more about how this stuff was coded cause I’d love to make something like this. Or give disco bot some extra functions lol

Edit: I’d like to revise my answer to 2005 to 2008 Subaru Outback

HavlokUK · September 12, 2017, 3:35pm

@HavlokUK has asked for a Random Aircraft quiz.

Answer below (no peeking!)

[OKB-1 150](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKB-1%20150)

HavlokUK · September 12, 2017, 3:36pm

HA HA HAAAAA! I had to have a go

fearlessfrog · September 12, 2017, 4:21pm

I never really finished it, and hate with a reasonable passion coding in Ruby (turtlenecks itch to wear, and I never really listened to a lot of Radiohead), but all the source code for extensions to the forum are open source here:

Essentially it relies on the structure of wikipedia, so if it was converted to donuts then it would need a ordered collection over there for that. The real meat of it is here:

github.com

fearlessfrog/discourse-randomaircraft-bot/blob/master/plugin.rb

# name: discourse-randomaircraft-bot
# about: returns a random aircraft from wikipedia to guess what it is
# version: 1
# authors: fearlessfrog
# url: https://github.com/fearlessfrog/discourse-randomaircraft-bot

after_initialize do

    require 'net/http'
    require "json"

    def get_random_aircraft_image()
        img_url = nil
        article_title = nil
        
        50.times do 
            article_title = get_random_aircraft_article()
            #puts "Title chosen as: #{article_title}"
            
            img_url = find_article_image(article_title) if article_title

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(Line 121 was meant to be secret, ssh don’t tell him)

komemiute · September 12, 2017, 4:25pm

[randomdonuts]

HavlokUK · September 12, 2017, 4:30pm

Ha ha

I wondered how he got three identical ones

fearlessfrog · August 6, 2018, 7:30pm

I forgot we had this. @chipwich asking for an aircraft reminded me.

To use, reply with the text (sorry for picture example Dark Theme people)…:

…in a message and it’ll try to make a quiz. It’s pretty dumb and uses wikipedia as the random choice, but the price is good. YMMV.

fearlessfrog · August 6, 2018, 7:31pm

@fearlessfrog has asked for a Random Aircraft quiz.

Answer below (no peeking!)

[Dayton-Wright XPS-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton-Wright%20XPS-1)