ao3_markov

What inspired me

I honestly have no idea. I wrote a basic Markov generator in highschool, and apparently decided to do so today.

What I learned

How to use command-line arguments and flags in a Python program, and the existence of the U+2017-2020 block that makes apostrophes look weird and breaks text input. Also, it turns out that AO3 will stop letting you connect to them if you throw a few hundred GET requests at them in a row.

How I built

From the ground up. I fortunately did not have to create the AO3 API, but the generators were designed as a dict of dicts, and both of those layers had to have functions to operate usefully on them. After making it work on one chapter, I expanded it to draw from multiple, using those previous dict functions to do so. And once it was finished as a module, I added command-line arguments and usability.

Challenges

Some input sanitation, and decisions on what should count as a word.

Built With

• ao3-api
• python