Project Zodiacy

Install from tarball

pip install --user <tarball>

Please note that due to copyright issues we can't distribute the tarball. See the instructions below to build directly from source

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/greenify/zodiacy
cd zodiacy
make
python setup.py clean && python setup.py sdist && python setup.py install --user

Possible routes

Select a random keyword (weighted):

http://zodiacy.parce.li/random-keyword

See all available keywords:

http://zodiacy.parce.li/list-keywords

Select a specific keyword

http://zodiacy.parce.li/keyword/patience

Generate a horoscope for you zodiac sign:

http://zodiacy.parce.li/sign/aries

Ask the moon:

http://zodiacy.parce.li/moon

Build you own queries

e.g.

• http://zodiacy.parce.li/q?keyword=pride&nr_horoscopes=5&

• http://zodiacy.parce.li/q?keyword=discomfort&nr_horoscopes=5&format=json

• http://zodiacy.parce.li/q?keyword=patience&use_ratings=1

• http://zodiacy.parce.li/q?keyword=pride&markov_type=hmm_past

• http://zodiacy.parce.li/q?sign=aries&order=2

• http://zodiacy.parce.li/q?sign=aries&use_synonyms_emission=1

• http://zodiacy.parce.li/q?keyword=patience&use_synonyms_generation=1

• http://zodiacy.parce.li/q

... and a lot more :)

Possible parameters

  -s SIGN, --sign SIGN  zodiac sign to generate
  -k KEYWORD, --keyword KEYWORD
                        keyword for the horoscope
  -t THRESHOLD, --threshold THRESHOLD
                        minimum count of horoscopes for the given filters
  -o {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19}, --order {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19}
                        order of the used markov chain
  --order-emissions {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19}
                        max. order to look back at prev. emissions (HMM)
  -n {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}, --horoscopes {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
                        number of horoscopes
  -c, --synonyms-generation
                        additionally use synonyms of keywords for generation
  -m {markov,hmm,hmm_past}, --markov_type {markov,hmm,hmm_past}
                        Markov type to use (default: markov)
  --prob-hmm-states PROB_HMM_STATES
                        When using previous states and emissions, weight for
                        the previous states
  --prob-hmm-emissions PROB_HMM_EMISSIONS
                        When using previous states and emissions, weight for
                        the previous emissions
  -y, --synonyms-emission
                        use synonyms on emissions
  --prob-syn-emissions PROB_SYNONYMS_EMISSION
                        probability to emit synonyms
  --list-keywords       show all available keywords
  -r, --random-keyword  select keyword randomly (weighted on occurrence)
  --ratings             weight states according to ratings
  --moon                Use current moon phase for the keyword selection

Description of the acquired horoscopes

• there are four horoscopes dates with less than 12 horoscopes ("2007-10-13": 11, "2007-10-15":11, "2007-10-18": 7, "2007-10-22": 11)
• there are 22 horoscopes without a general horoscope (=12)
• there are 2969 horoscopes with an general horoscope (=13)

= 38901 horoscopes

Numeric mapping of zodiac signs

0: general
1: aries
2: taurus
3: gemini
4: cancer
5: leo
6: virgo
7: libra
8: scorpio
9: sagittarius
10: capricorn
11: aquarius
12: pisces

Dev Requirements

• bash
• coreutils
• dateutils
• GNU parallel
• GNU make
• perl
• python3
  • nltk
  • wordnik-py3
  • astral
  • SQLAlchemy
  • setuptools
• sqlite3