alexwohlbruck/cat-facts

Daily cat facts! 🐱

Using a combination of Node.js, Angular, and Tasker, this app will combine APIs and Services from the web to do just one thing... send cat facts.

Features

• Add and view your personal list of fact recipients
• Send a cat fact via text message every day
• Countdown clock until next fact is sent
• Catbot that auto-replies when recipients text back
• View the catversation between Catbot and your recipients
• Submit your own interesting facts
• Quick copy-and-paste-able cat facts with the "Get Fact" button
• Add recipients by talking to the Catbot!
• Import all of your Google contacts at once
• Admin console panel for managing the app
• Twitter bot
• Developer API

Support Cat Facts

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Getting Started

Official website

Visit the site and start messing with your friends!

API Documentation

Start developing!

Docs homepage

Other sites

Follow Cat Facts on Twitter

Talk to the DialogFlow bot here

Setup

If you want to set up your own version of Cat Facts, follow the instructions in this guide

cat-facts's Issues

Push notifications support

Create editable profile page

Override facts don't send

Developer API

Create documentation for facts API

Selection is not cleared after deleting recipients

Photoless user will crash server on sign in

Remove fact scraper

Original fact API is dead, no longer needed

Dark theme

Store public IP addresses in DB

https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip

Copy to clipboard button doesn't copy

Chrome OS Version 65

Polish and DRY console code

The entire console is a mess of spaghetti code, needs to be cleaned and tidied.

Update Dialogflow hooks to V2

Google+ Sign in API being deprecated

https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/quick-migration-guide

Save local data in central store for reuse

Add persistent login sessions

Create subsites for different animal facts

dogs
jellyfish
snails
horses
bats

Add testing flag to catbot/daily route for non-permanent changes

Console grid layout is not responsive

Automatically unsubscribe recipients after all facts have been sent to them

Animal query param doesn't work in facts/random endpoint

Allow recipients to unsubscribe from site

Require auth and verified phone number before unsubscribing

Add override fact creator in console

Select from existing facts or create new one, pick date to send. Admin only

Use express middleware to restrict unauthorized routes

https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-restrict
https://scotch.io/tutorials/route-middleware-to-check-if-a-user-is-authenticated-in-node-js

Override daily cat fact

Add keyboard shortcuts (+konami code?)

Add sign out button

Repeated cat fact

CatBot code was recently updated, find the bug

Catbot signup request says invalid phone number

When submitting a number with extra symbols like +()-

Let CatBot add recipients of multiple animal types

Validation fails for phone number with that contains +()-

When adding recipients

Reset all "used" flags on facts when there are no unused facts left

cat-facts/app/services/fact.service.js

Line 10 in 1b8f5eb

Fact.findRandom({}, {}, {limit: options.amount}, (err, facts) => {

Use virtual repeat for Google contacts picker

Will improve performance dramatically

Add empty state for recipients tab

Add phone number linking to accounts

Add limit to /facts endpoint

Limit of 500 or so, there aren't even that many facts in the db.

Dark theme toggle doesn't persist

Filter spam and verizon info messages

Any messages that contain specific blacklisted messages will not be added as a recipient

Allow user accounts to be deleted

Fact upvotes don't appear to work

Toast is blank, no visual feedback

Add addedBy for recipients who are added over text message

Create a user account for these people and attach their phone number to the account.

Will have to deal with account merging when conflicting non-unique phone numbers exist.

501 error on sign up

Add ability to edit and remove submitted facts

Allow users to restore deleted recipients

Recipients selection toolbar should be pinned to top

"My Facts" tab doesn't display already sent facts

Quick fact sheet has annoying scollbars

Cat fact bottom sheet can't be closed when too tall

The new fact button opens a bottom sheet, which is too tall to be closed when the cat fact is too long. Implement a scrolling behavior and a max-height for the sheet

Page scrolling sometimes gets locked

When on the console page, scrolling stops working and the page has to be refreshed.

Allow deletion of recipients

Also add option to show/readd deleted recipients in the recipients list

Update API and database for animal type selection