MMM-Random Fact

lavolp3 · Apr 23, 2020, 8:37 AM

@cowboysdude Dude you’re ignoring all the debugging!
(After including debug logs) I got the response code 503 from the API

[2020-04-23 10:35:54.046] [LOG]    10:35:54 <log> Wrong response code: 503 (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-rfacts/node_helper.js:47 Request._callback)
[2020-04-23 10:35:54.054] [LOG]    10:35:54 <log> {"statusCode":503,"body":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1\">\n<meta charset=\"utf-8\">\n<title>Application Error</title>\n<script src=\"/cdn-cgi/apps/head/mRZC9wXQsm0r4xm9M3hblvWOKNw.js\"></script><style media=\"screen\">\n\t\t  html,body,iframe {\n\t\t\tmargin: 0;\n\t\t\tpadding: 0;\n\t\t  }\n\t\t  html,body {\n\t\t\theight: 100%;\n\t\t\toverflow: hidden;\n\t\t  }\n\t\t  iframe {\n\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\theight: 100%;\n\t\t\tborder: 0;\n\t\t  }\n\t\t</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<iframe src=\"//www.herokucdn.com/error-pages/application-error.html\"></iframe>\n</body>\n</html>","headers":{"date":"Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:35:53 GMT","content-type":"text/html; charset=utf-8","transfer-encoding":"chunked","connection":"close","set-cookie":["__cfduid=dba2fb4d60e085d460cd31721c37883191587630953; expires=Sat, 23-May-20 08:35:53 GMT; path=/; domain=.sameerkumar.website; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax; Secure"],"cache-control":"no-cache, no-store","cf-cache-status":"DYNAMIC","expect-ct":"max-age=604800, report-uri=\"https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct\"","server":"cloudflare","cf-ray":"588640f1695a0026-LHR","cf-request-id":"0247c6eadf000000267690a200000001"},"request":{"uri":{"protocol":"https:","slashes":true,"auth":null,"host":"useless-facts.sameerkumar.website","port":443,"hostname":"useless-facts.sameerkumar.website","hash":null,"search":null,"query":null,"pathname":"/api","path":"/api","href":"https://useless-facts.sameerkumar.website/api"},"method":"GET","headers":{}}} (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-rfacts/node_helper.js:48 Request._callback)
[2020-04-23 10:35:54.064] [LOG]    10:35:54 <log> null (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-rfacts/node_helper.js:49 Request._callback)

I guess my pre-posters have a similar experience.

lavolp3 · Apr 23, 2020, 8:55 AM

@cowboysdude @chassain-0 @Stoffbeuteluwe
Its obviously an API problem. The API page returns an Application Error.
I guess we need another API.

How about this one?
https://uselessfacts.jsph.pl/random.json
It seems to use (at least) the german source “neon”.
I was actually looking for that for some time because neon has published a range of books called “useless facts”. FOund it accidentally just now.

It could be implemented and then translated from the source language to the user language.
If it uses all of neon’s facts there quite a lot.

If you don’t want to use this source, no problem, then I’d build an own module.

chassain 0 · Apr 23, 2020, 10:11 AM

@lavolp3 we can use this for the moment…and see after…the modul is so fine that i can 't work without :)//how integrate this new api ?

lavolp3 · Apr 23, 2020, 10:13 AM

@chassain-0 I have it working but changed lots of things on the frontend and in node_helper.js. So need to check the changes again.

lavolp3 · Apr 23, 2020, 10:25 AM

@lavolp3
PR sent
https://github.com/cowboysdude/MMM-rfacts/pull/12

It seems I have done a bit too much JS programming in recent months… Lol.

@cowboysdude have a look at it and let me know what you think.

chassain 0 · Apr 23, 2020, 12:44 PM

@lavolp3 It works fine for me (in french) with the changes manualy

cowboysdude · Apr 26, 2020, 11:33 PM

Thanks Guys…even with the world in chaos I am busy…VERY.

Thank you @lavolp3 working perfectly ;)

The new api I had gotten apparently ONLY works in the US for some reason…

Stoffbeuteluwe · Apr 27, 2020, 7:52 PM

Hi to all …thanks for your work, everything works nice

kisagluk · Jul 10, 2020, 3:41 PM

Hey, first of all, awesome module and I really like it!
Thank you :)

One thing I see is that on my English system, from time to time I get facts in German.
For example in one run, I get 3 in English, number 4 is in German and then English again.
The behaviour is quite random, sometimes it’s a first one etc.
Any idea why this happens?