Welcome to the precious playful Proverb Pro, a program that generates completely useless German proverbs using Sprichwortgenerator and throws it together with an inspirational picture in the background.

Run pip3 install -r requirements.txt and you should be up and running, not only for the Proverb Pro, but also for the Proverb Bot.

usage: proverb_pro.py [-h] [-i [IMAGE]] [-t [TEXT]]
                      [-c [{average,frequency,blackwhite}]]

Generate hilarious proverbs on top of inspiring pictures

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i [IMAGE], --image [IMAGE]
                        image file path
  -t [TEXT], --text [TEXT]
                        text to add
  -c [{average,frequency,blackwhite}], --colours [{average,frequency,blackwhite}]
                        select the colour recognition mechanism

If any of -i and -t are not provided, they are going to be randomly chosen: The image is taken from the img/ directory within this repo and the text comes from Sprichwortgenerator.

If -c is not used, blackwhite will be chosen. average colours the text based on the average colour of the image, frequency uses the most frequent colour and blackwhite uses the average colour and then either uses black or white as the text colour.

When proverb_pro.py is run, it outputs the path of the generated image file. NOTE: By default it outputs to a folder called out/ which isn't present in this repo because stupid git can't handle empty directories.

For using the Proverb Bot, you need a Telegram bot token for Proverb Bot to use. You can obtain them by sending /newbot to the "BotFather".

Once you have the token, save it into a file called proverb_bot.token.

The bot program is an endlessly looping program, so you just run ./proverb_bot.py either with nohup or in a terminal session you don't need, lay back and enjoy the weird proverbs. NOTE: Some of the pictures are quite large, so generating and sending may take a while, especially on older (or cheaper) hardware.