A Python2 based Backus-Naur poetry generator
MIT License
This program works on the basis that every word in the English language is either "positive" or "negative." For instance "lovely" is positive and "thorn" is negative. A "poem" is a group of sentences that are structured in a way to have +1, -1 or 0 in terms of the positivity/negativity. A "mushy poem" is strictly positive.
All the syntax and word choices are in the brain.yaml
file (more info about this below).
Try the demo here.
$ docker run -p 8000:8000 schollz/poetry-generator
Now open your browser to localhost:8000!
Follow these commands to generate a poem if you have minimal experience coding/etc. Open up a terminal and use
git clone https://github.com/schollz/poetry-generator.git
cd poetry-generator
Install Python requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
Download and unzip the NodeBox linguistics package:
wget https://www.nodebox.net/code/data/media/linguistics.zip
unzip linguistics.zip
And then run using
waitress-serve --port=8000 poetrygenerator:application
Then open your browser to localhost:8000
to see the poetry generator.
Examples of the types of words:
verb-pr = hopes
verb-past = hoped
verb = hope
verb-inf = hoping
Currently you only need to put in the infinitive form, and the other forms will be determined automaticlaly.
I wrote a deployment script for easy NGINX deployment (keep reading). This will install NGINX blocks, as well as a Linux init.d
script to automatically start and stop gunicorn.
Edit deploy.py to change
APP_NAME = 'poetry-generator'
APP_URL = 'www.poetrygenerator.ninja'
APP_PORT = 8002
or leave the same - its up to you.
Then run
sudo python deploy.py install
This program now uses virtualenv
so it can be deployed with gunicorn
. The installation creates virtualenv
and downloads the packages. Then it writes a new init.d
script and sends that so that it can automatically start and stop. If you deploy, it will also generate a nginx server block so its already to go.
The program should be running and accessible on your LAN network at
YOURLOCALIP:8002/
When you run, you may see the following error:
[....] Reloading nginx configuration (via systemctl): nginx.serviceJob for nginx.service failed. See 'systemctl status nginx.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
failed!
To fix this, you just need to enable the server_names in nginx. First
sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
And uncomment these lines:
server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
server_name_in_redirect off;
and now you should be good to go!
Thanks to nylen for greatly improving Poetry Generator, by fixing code and adding permalinks to poems!