sbt meow

An sbt plugin for viewing cat pictures. Because if sbt is going to download the entire Internet, it damn well ought to include some cat pictures.

Install

Add the following to your sbt project/plugins.sbt file:

resolvers += Resolver.url(
  "bintray-thricejamie-sbt-plugins",
    url("http://dl.bintray.com/thricejamie/sbt-plugins"))(
        Resolver.ivyStylePatterns)

addSbtPlugin("com.37pieces" % "sbt-meow" % "0.2")

NOTE this plugin targets sbt 0.13.

Usage

Your project now supports the meow task which will download a random cat picture from the web and render it to your terminal in brilliant ASCII.

> meow

Bam. Cat picture.

But what if that's not enough cats???

By default, The Cat API only serves the first 1000 pictures in its collection. However, if you register for an API key and add it to your project configuration, you can get access to to full collection of cat images.

Add the following setting to your build.sbt file (substituting your key for the XXXXXX) and revel in the bounty:

meowCatApiKey := "XXXXXX"

Caveats

Currently only tested with any thoroughness using bash on OS X. Linux seems mostly happy. Results on Windows will likely be less than impressive.

Acknowledgements

• The Cat API for providing a ready source of cat images.
• The scala-ascii-art repo for some inspiration and algorithm ideas.
• This really nice gist for a great color translation table that I adapted to my needs.

License

Copyright (c) 2014-2016 Jamie Paulson

Published under The MIT License, see LICENSE