bbrzycki/motivate-me-bot

@MotivateMeBot is a Twitter bot that makes motivational pictures by combining pictures with tweets!

motivate-me-bot's Issues

Need to filter quotes for links + hashtags

Edit quotes based on content

Lining up credits and signature

Ideally the credits and signature text should also line up, as well as the blur region. e.g. the bottom left and the bottom right should be symmetric.

Scaling text with image size

For small images, the quote/image credits and signature text are too small / pixelated, since they are currently scaled with image size.

Either need to enforce a minimum size or set a minimum font size (which is already in pixels -- can experiment with what looks decent). Perhaps some combination of the two is the best way to go.

Quote text cut off occasionally

Need to reproduce this bug reliably -- check through posted tweets and see when it actually occurs. Doesn't seem to necessarily be linked to any bounding box cutoff; seems to be a line by line issue.

Covering signatures

If an image already has a custom signature in a corner of the image, the credits generated by MotivateMeBot might accidentally cover it. Need a way to detect signatures and avoid covering custom image signatures.

Blurring box size

The background box size over which the image is blurred is by design larger than the quote text. The bounding box to determine quote text formatting should not necessarily be the box used for blurring.

Blurring also needs to have a gradient roll-off in blur radius to avoid adding sharp artificial features into the image.

In text filtering, capitalize characters that follow periods / exclamation pts, etc

Check background of signature and image/quote credit text

As of now, it only checks the background of the quote text.

Do a more careful handling of hashtag chains

Currently, we just remove all hashtags from the end. Figure out how to decide whether to keep or remove punctuation.. if this is even solvable in the first place.

Get rid of unnecessary imports

Throughout the project, make sure we aren't importing anything we don't need to, and make sure imports are specified clearly as well.

Need to vet images for extreme contrast

Need to vet tweets for sensitive content and images for gross variations in background color (that would make quote text hard to see)

Quote formatting -- words per line

Avoid situations where only one or two short words end up on a line -- particularly where the last line is so short that it looks awkward on its own.

Basically, we'd like to detect situations in which this would happen and adjust font / line spacing accordingly to look more natural.