Eleanor Rigbot

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A Twitter bot that searches for and retweets tweets that match the pattern of syllables in:

Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
In the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream

Account registered: https://twitter.com/eleanorrigbot

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There's a good method of getting syllable counts using NLTK here.

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Classification implemented as above and repository created: https://github.com/textbook/eleanor-rigbot

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First draft of the app is now up and running. Limitations are:

• Only finds tweets in Liverpool
• Whole tweet must match pattern
• Rhyming match doesn't even cover all lines in the song

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Cleaning/extraction now implemented. Closest match so far:

2017-04-02T22:37:15.48+0100 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]OUT DEBUG:eleanorrigbot.listen:received 848650558760210433 from @adamheath: u'I\'ll be on the end of one big "I told you so" when it turns out we\'re being controlled by plane chemicals on our flat earth with fake moon'
2017-04-02T22:37:15.48+0100 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]OUT DEBUG:eleanorrigbot.classify:processing 22-syllable tweet: [(u'when', 1), (u'it', 1), (u'turns', 1), (u'out', 1), (u"we're", 1), (u'being', 2), (u'controlled', 2), (u'by', 1), (u'plane', 1), (u'chemicals', 3), (u'on', 1), (u'our', 2), (u'flat', 1), (u'earth', 1), (u'with', 1), (u'fake', 1), (u'moon', 1)]
2017-04-02T22:37:15.48+0100 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]OUT INFO:eleanorrigbot.classify:tweet matches syllable pattern: [[u'when', u'it', u'turns', u'out', u"we're"], [u'being', u'controlled'], [u'by', u'plane', u'chemicals', u'on', u'our', u'flat'], [u'earth', u'with', u'fake', u'moon']]

When it turns out we're, being controlled
By plane chemicals on our flat
Earth with fake moon
@adamheath

Perhaps " should also be considered valid.

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The first legitimate find was a pretty downbeat one:

It's kinda shitty, when people say
They care then act like they don't give two
Shits about you
@Ch4rl3y_B0y

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Now I've written it up, too: http://blog.jonrshar.pe/2017/May/14/eleanor-rigbot.html