Get a random Stoic Quote from stoic-quotes.com

eurunuela commented 3 years ago

✂️ Copy of your #42SmartBlock from Roam

StoicQuote #42SmartBlock

<%JAVASCRIPT: return fetch('https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/' + 'https://stoic-quotes.com/api/quote').then(r => r.json())
.then(data =>  '__"' + data['text'] + '"__ by [[' + data['author'] + ']] #Quote')
.catch(e => alert("There was an error..."))%>

📋 Describe the SmartBlock

This SmartBlock calls the stoic-quotes.com API and returns a random quote in the following format:

"Stoic quote" by [[Author]]

✅ Describe any prerequisites or dependencies that are required for this SmartBlock

No dependencies needed.

📷 Screenshot of your #42SmartBlock workflow/template from Roam

💡 Additional Info

You can use it on your daily template for a daily stoic quote 😉

brandon-toner commented 3 years ago

Ou, grabs like this could help in systematically retrieving random content from online!

... just need to start identifying sources that can be scraped like this. _{View in Slack}

TfTHacker commented 3 years ago

I wanted to do some demoing of other capabilities, so did a riff on this, but moved to a different issue since it illustrates other concepts.

https://github.com/roamhacker/SmartBlocks/issues/77

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