Closed Bug 139748 Opened 23 years ago Closed 6 years ago

[BACON] mozbot should support 6 degrees of kevin bacon

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(Webtools Graveyard :: Mozbot, enhancement, P5)

x86
Windows 2000
enhancement

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INACTIVE

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(Reporter: bugs, Assigned: xor)

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(Whiteboard: [has-attachment][needs testing])

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(1 file, 1 obsolete file)

You should be able to say something like botbot bacon Chevy Chase to find an actor's Bacon #. I think there are web services that provide this info?
Taking. A couple things I still want to fix, but you can play with it on #quixote.
Assignee: ian → xor
Attached file v1 (obsolete) —
Looks fun. Does it still work? :-)
Summary: mozbot should support 6 degrees of kevin bacon → [BACON] mozbot should support 6 degrees of kevin bacon
I've contacted the oracle people to ask them if there's a text interface. That would be way better than parsing the HTML.
No officially available API for this, but apparently this may be easier to parse: http://oracleofbacon.org/palm/
QA Contact: kerz → mozbot
Whiteboard: [has-attachment]
Whiteboard: [has-attachment] → [has-attachment][needs testing]
Priority: -- → P5
Attached file Patch v 1.1
Here is a new patch, which lists the Bacon value, but the page formatting has changed radically enough that the other regular expressions are more difficult. Do we want the films listed, or do we just want a link to the results page. (I would vote for the latter, which is simpler.)
Attachment #81142 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #405723 - Flags: review?(bugtrap)
Attachment #405723 - Attachment mime type: application/octet-stream → text/plain
Comment on attachment 405723 [details] Patch v 1.1 Hrm, we have a fair number of modules which are little more than gateways to web services already, so just linking is not encouraging. I'd say the bot should list the films. Makes it more worthwhile.
Attachment #405723 - Flags: review?(bugtrap)

Mozbot/Firebot is in maintenance-only mode; no further changes are planned.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
Product: Webtools → Webtools Graveyard
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