Retrieve quotes from brainyquote.com

CharlesDesign

Hi All,

I'm trying to retrieve some quotes from this page with not much luck. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_knowledge.html

I've tried both loadStringI() and loadXml(), what other options do I have?

Thanks, Charles

kfrajer

Try this website: http://forismatic.com/en/api/

There is a tester interface: http://api.forismatic.com/api/tester/ Fill the following:

• API method: getQuote
• Key: train
• Format: json
• Language: en

Or paste this in your browser: http://api.forismatic.com/api/1.0/POST?method=getQuote&key=train&format=json&lang=en

You get the following which can be processed by using JSON calls (See reference):

{"quoteText":"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.", "quoteAuthor":"Edwin Chapin", "senderName":"", "senderLink":"", "quoteLink":"http://forismatic.com/en/dbe285a98d/"}

@shiffman might like this for his API series.

Kf

CharlesDesign

I get a NullPointer on the loadJSONObject():

JSONObject json;
void setup(){
  json = loadJSONObject("http://api.forismatic.com/api/1.0/POST?method=getQuote&key=train&format=json&lang=en");
  println(json);
}

ps: ignore the href, it's the processing forum formatting

jeremydouglass

Defeat the forum URL mangling by splitting URL strings in two:

json = loadJSONObject("http://" + "api.forismatic.com/api/1.0/POST?method=getQuote&key=train&format=json&lang=en");

kfrajer

@CharlesDesign

I am sure it will work in p5.js but my experience in processing accessing APIs is limited. I will need to do further testing myself. As an alternative, try using a standard GET/POST via HTTP request and format html (you can browse previous posts in the forum, keyword POST). Alternatively, try any of the other formats: I will start with xml and use loadXML (?) or text and loadStrings?

I am not able to try atm.

Kf

kfrajer

@CharlesDesign

From this post:

https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/22202/http-request/p1

import http.requests.*;

public void setup() { 
  size(400, 400); 
  smooth(); 
  PostRequest post = new PostRequest("http://"+"api.forismatic.com/api/1.0/POST?method=getQuote&key=train&format=text&lang=en");//("http://processing.org/about/index.html");
  post.send(); 

  System.out.println("Reponse Content: " + post.getContent()); 
  System.out.println("Reponse Content-Length Header: " + post.getHeader("Content-Length"));
}

If you want to work with json, do the following (change the post format to json):

JSONObject container = parseJSONObject(post.getContent());
println("\n\nMy fav quote is: \""+container.getString("quoteText")+"\"");

Working with xml:

  XML container = parseXML(post.getContent());
  println("My fav quote is: \""+container.getChild("quote").getChild("quoteText").getContent()+"\"");

Kf

CharlesDesign

Perfect, thanks kfrajer!