ASCII art API, birdie at EuRuKo Golf
Wooga started a little contest called EuRuKo Golf where you can win a ticket to EuRuKo 2012.
The goal of this contest is to write a tweetable (140 characters or less) ruby program that outputs EuRoKo ASCII art.
One of the smartest solutions was Matteo’s (see pull request
https://github.com/wooga/euruko-golf/pull/2)
which uses the artii gem to create ASCII art.
A drawback of this solution is that you should have the artii gem installed on
your system to run it without errors. A workaround is to call a web service that
can generate ASCII art from a string.
This solution is now available thanks to ASCII art API.
It’s a simple Goliath app that lets you generate ASCII art from any text.
Try http://artii.herokuapp.com/make?text=I+love+ASCII+art, you should see something like this as a response from the API:
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_____ _ _____ _____ _____ _____ _
|_ _| | | /\ / ____|/ ____|_ _|_ _| | |
| | | | _____ _____ / \ | (___ | | | | | | __ _ _ __| |_
| | | |/ _ \ \ / / _ \ / /\ \ \___ \| | | | | | / _` | '__| __|
_| |_ | | (_) \ V / __/ / ____ \ ____) | |____ _| |_ _| |_ | (_| | | | |_
|_____| |_|\___/ \_/ \___| /_/ \_\_____/ \_____|_____|_____| \__,_|_| \__|
With this API you should be able to build a solution to the contest like this:
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require 'open-uri'
puts open('http://j.mp/IRG0u1').read
You can find the app’s source code at http://github.com/potomak/artii-api.
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