Shitpost Generator

A simple shitpost generator that pastes a random frame from Frinkiac to that "guys only want one thing" tweet.

See it in action here.

Motivation

Do I really need to explain? It's a shitpost generator.

Dependencies

• Magick++ ($ brew install imagemagick, $ sudo pacman -S imagemagick, etc.)
• curl (the cli)

Compiling the generator

$ make

What ./make_image does

• Uses popen() to run shell commands (curl) because I was lazy
• Fetches a random frame from Frinkiac using curl
• Uses ImageMagick to paste the frame below the top image. The top image is stored in top_image_base64.cpp as base64-encoded string.
• The top image is resized a bit to match the bottom image. Frinkiac tends to have black vertical bars on both sides of the frame, hence the pixel offset when pasting the bottom image.
• Outputs the Image as base64-encoded jpeg.

Replacing the top image

$ echo "extern const char * const TOP_IMAGE_BASE64 = \"`base64 -w 0 < NEW_IMAGE`\";" > top_image_base64.cpp

where NEW_IMAGE is the path to your new image in any format supported by ImageMagick.

Then recompile.

Web frontend layout

The frontend is a simple php script that executes make_image and puts the base64-encoded image data directly into the html.

I have the server laid out so that the http root is at a public/ directory, but scripts are below the public directory. The frontend just contains symlinks to the scripts. So for example:

public/
public/shitpostgen/index.php -> ../../shitpostgen/index.php
shitpostgen/
shitpostgen/index.php
shitpostgen/make_image
shitpostgen/...<etc>...