git@github.com:rabilrbl/TQuotes.git

Author: rabilrbl

.gitignore

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+quote
+quote.exe
+quote_test.sh

quote.go

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+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/http"
+	"runtime"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	// Since the server gives error frequently
+	// we try calling api again specific amount of time until we get value
+	// res is to check if we have received value from api "res = 1"
+	// count is to keep track of number of attempts to call api
+	res, count := 0, 0
+	// loop will run until we get proper quote from api till 15 attempts
+	for res == 0 {
+		quotes := quote() // quote function
+		count += 1        //counting attempts
+		// Check if received api value is not empty
+		// and
+		// Check if OS is Linux, Since i have applied text styling for linux terminals only
+		if quotes["quoteText"] != "" && runtime.GOOS == "linux" {
+			// Output for Linux
+			res = 1 // make loop condition false
+			print("\n\033[1m\033[36m" + quotes["quoteText"] + "✨\033[0m\n")
+			if quotes["quoteAuthor"] != "" { // If author is not empty
+				print(" - " + "\033[93m" + quotes["quoteAuthor"] + "\033[0m\n")
+			} else { // author is found empty then Anonymous
+				print(" - " + "\033[93m" + "Anonymous" + "\033[0m\n")
+			}
+		} else if quotes["quoteText"] != "" {
+			// Output for OS other than linux
+			res = 1
+			print("\n" + quotes["quoteText"] + "✨\n")
+			if quotes["quoteAuthor"] != "" {
+				print(" - " + quotes["quoteAuthor"] + "\n")
+			} else {
+				print(" - " + "Anonymous\n")
+			}
+		}
+		if count > 15 { // Terminate loop if retry attempts exceed 15 times
+			res = 1 // make loop condition false
+			print("\n Something went wrong. Try again! \n")
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Fetch quotes from API and returns JSON like slices
+func quote() map[string]string {
+	var client = &http.Client{}
+
+	var data = strings.NewReader(`method=getQuote&format=json&param=ms&lang=en`)
+
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "http://forismatic.com/api/1.0/", data)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		fatal()
+	}
+
+	req.Header.Set("Connection", "keep-alive")
+	req.Header.Set("Pragma", "no-cache")
+	req.Header.Set("Cache-Control", "no-cache")
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36 Edg/92.0.902.62")
+	req.Header.Set("DNT", "1")
+	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
+	req.Header.Set("Accept", "*/*")
+	req.Header.Set("Origin", "http://forismatic.com")
+	req.Header.Set("Referer", "http://forismatic.com/en/")
+	req.Header.Set("Accept-Language", "en,hi;q=0.5")
+	req.Header.Set("sec-gpc", "1")
+
+	resp, err := client.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		fatal()
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	bodyText, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		fatal()
+	}
+	values := make(map[string]string)
+
+	err = json.Unmarshal(bodyText, &values)
+	if err != nil {
+		fatal()
+	}
+
+	return values
+}
+
+func fatal() {
+	count := 0
+	for count > 3 {
+		main()
+		count++
+		if count > 3 {
+			print("\n Something went wrong. Try again! \n")
+		}
+	}
+}