Comments on: Knock knock jokes via autocomplete

Knock knock jokes via autocomplete

ignignokt — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:57:00 -0800

This bot creates knock knock jokes by hitting up autocomplete on Google. This is perhaps the dumbest bot of all time. And yet! I am compelled to share amazing jokes like these.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:57:23 -0800

This is the greatest thing.

By: Elementary Penguin

Elementary Penguin — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 02:58:53 -0800

tbh it tells better jokes than my kid.

By: idiopath

idiopath — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:31:04 -0800

Cool, what's the implementation stack?

By: ignignokt

ignignokt — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:04:30 -0800

Oh, yeah, I meant to link the source. It's a Node app that hits up the Wordnik API for a random word, goes to the undocumented Google autocomplete API with that word, formats the joke with one of the results, does a little filtering for outright heinousness or autocomplete garbage, then posts to Twitter.

Much of the various sorts of fetching and posting is done by the various Node modules listed in the dependencies.