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Website Address
Generated Poem
The gist of PoetryBot's algorithm
Third party code (hosted here):
Mozilla's Readability
Brandon Mills' weighted-random
- Load a webpage into a DOM. Then use Mozilla's Readbility article extraction code to get a plain text representation of the content of the webpage.
- Create a Markov Chain of the writing on the page. The model is a dictionary, which contains words mapped to a Counted Set representing the words that follow that word, and their frequency. This allows PoetryBot to generate sentences that are more natural than those generated by treating all words equally.
- Generate lines (strings of words of random length). These lines seed the generation of those that follow, to keep the poem on topic (for the most part)
- Combine the lines and post to the page for your enjoyment!
Third party code (hosted here):
Mozilla's Readability
Brandon Mills' weighted-random