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j-rieck / turid

Turid, your friendly neighborhood IRC bot
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Calculator/converter plugin #11

Closed j-rieck closed 10 years ago

j-rieck commented 10 years ago

Add a plugin that can do calculations and conversions in the same fashion as Google does. It used to be possible to do this via iGoogle, but not anymore. We need to be creative.

Must do simple maths, must convert physical units, must convert currency

.c 1 usd in nok
> 1 US Dollar equals 6.15 Norwegian Kroner
.c 4 F in C
> 4 Fahrenheit equals -15.55 Celsius
j-rieck commented 10 years ago

Yahoo actually has a proper API which can be utilized. It even returns JSON

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

j-rieck commented 10 years ago

Fix'd! 7c7f324d0989a16242a7ac8d93068c80e8d81330