duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies

DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript

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zeroclickinfo-goodies's Issues

"roll 4d6 - L" is no longer showing results from dice.pm

Aww, one of my favorite goodies I worked on back in the day is no longer handling one of its special cases. The code for -L and -H is still in dice.pm but it must no longer be matching its execution pattern correctly.

The deal is to have the dice goodie respond to standard dice notation:

roll 4d6 - L # roll 4 six-sided die and subtract the lowest value
roll 3d12 - H # roll 3 twelve-sided die and subtract the highest value

Trello board

Sorry for the delay in integration lately. We've been trying to work on a better interface between the repositories and the core system, and I've been working on a redesign of the site (almost done). We won't wait until the new interfaces are done to integrate, though. I'll be getting on that ASAP.

Onto the issue!

I've been thinking that a more visual, public request board would be better than the scattered txt files and wikis. I put together a Trello board for this purpose and I'm wondering what you all think about it: https://trello.com/board/goodies/4f08e96d947729b526070890

It is set up for public voting and commenting, so anyone who wants (even without technical skill) can engage with it.

Dice goodie unicode

It'd be sweet if the dice goodie used unicode to show results. Check out the characters at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols

search for "die"

Dice rolling should work without a dice count, e.g. "roll d20"

Should just be a simple change to the regex and logic.

Extend the functionality of Xor.pm to other bitwise operations

It would be nice if the user could also have a result of and/or/not bitwise operations between two numbers.

Capitalize is not working

Hey Guys, I noticed capitalize is still on Trello under ideas, I was gonna give it a go implementing it but I noticed its already on here. However, I tried it on DDG and I don't believe its working...

Thought I'd let you know!

UN failing on non-numeric queries

@400000004fd35af51f86bb6c Argument "\x{68}\x{75}..." isn't numeric in sprintf at /usr/local/ddg.cpan/perl5/lib/perl5/Number/UN.pm line 33.

FedEx not triggering properly

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=178440515632684

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fedex+178440515632684

Adding "fedex" to the search makes it work properly but I think previously that wasn't necessary

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=710379288072 is another one

Duckpan server not displaying goodie output correctly

Tip using of

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=20%25+tip+of+43.3

should probably work

ABC false positive

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=exclusive+or

Morse Goodie: Missing results

The following characters don't work with Morse entry:

e
h
i
s
5

Original issue:

https://duck.co/topic/morse-code-0-click-doesn-t-work-for-some-valid-input

Looks like these characters (in morse, intended as conversion to text) are being overriden by a "Morse" disambiguation.

Drop short words from passphrase goodie

E.g. two letters like zl

Missing DDG::Godie and DDG::Test::Goodie

This module requires the Perl modules DDG::Goodie and DDG::Test::Goodie which are not mentioned in dist.ini nor included in this repository. I finally found them in https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo (not on CPAN). No, I don't want to use duckpan but first just write and test a Goodie like any other Perl/CPAN module.

!man curl displays no results

The source site for man pages is a little dated, and a little unsupported

http://compute.cnr.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?

has a broken image in the front page, and a copyright notice from 1994. I am sure that it is a great site, and has been useful for almost 20 years, but ddg might want to use a more inclusive site.

Braille to English conversion

Braille characters searched should return an english translation.

You'll need to expand the trigger to fire whenever a braille character is present. To do this, use a regex trigger so you don't have to list out all the characters. Check out this wikipedia page for the name of the code block. Look here on perldoc for how to reference a unicode block inside a regex (you only need the simple 'single form'). To use the regex instead of a 'word' trigger, it's as simple as triggers any => qr/your_regex_here/.

Once you've got it triggering correctly, look at the cpan package for a braille-to-english conversion function.

Dice: +(l|h) not handled nicely

For example, "roll d6+l". [+-][lh] is matched, but + is not handled in this case at all. Instead it is passed to int(), resulting in a warning (which is fatal on the live platform).

Tracking number being attached to wrong carrier

92748926998277553042762371 should be UPS instead of USPS.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=92748926998277553042762371

https://duck.co/ia/view/usps

add dpi and clarify emtopx

From email:

"Em is a relative unit. Relative to the current point size of the font.
To have a real conversion from em to px, you must have the point size
of the used font and the dpi of the used display. What duckduckgo
currently returns is just division/multiplication by 16 which is true
for only some very specific font size / display combinations."

Dice roller could show all rolls in addition to sum

roll 2d6 could return 3 + 4 = 7

roll 3d20 + 4 : 17 + 13 + 14 = 44

An interesting feature of this concept would mean that we'd share the values of "-L" and "-H"

roll 4d6 - L : 5 + 4 + 3 - 2 = 10

Multiple rolls

This came in over feedback:

Hey it's pretty cool that DDG can roll dice for queries like "3d6+4"!

And it even accepts irregular dice like 3d17 :-)

But can you also make it accept multiple dice, such as "3d10 + 2d6 + 3" ?

And maybe multiple rolls, like "1d20+7, 2d4+1" (which wouldn't summ all results, but rolls to-hit and damage at the same time and reports both).

Make "flip" (FlipText) reversable

"flip abc" gives ɔqɐ so "flip ɔqɐ" should give "abc."

If you take a look at the fliptext-reverse branch, I've extended the hash to include reversed elements for each of the unicode characters.

This isn't enough though; it's still not working in duckpan query. If you can make it work, please submit a pull request with your changes.

N letter words with with n spelled out

Like five letter words.

Three word queries that contain the word 'percent' don't work

saralk on reddit wrote:

"Very strange bug,
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=percent+html works
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=percent+symbol+html doesn't work
"

Make it easier to download the QR code.

strange calculator result

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%2F%2F

Turn "RubiksCubePatterns" into a cheat sheet

Right now you have to enter "rcube stripes" (or rcube ), but it would be better if you just entered "rcube" or "rubiks cube patterns" and got a list of them all.

Drop adult words from passphrase goodie

E.g. blowjob

Drop weird words no one has ever heard of from passphrase goodie

Binary false positives

It seems people search binary * a bit and don't want/expect to get the goodie. Is there another way to segment it out like * (in|to) binary?

crontab says "at this freq." and then gives two points, not a frequency

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=crontab+0+0+*+*+*+%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fnice+-n+15+%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fddg%2Fsysadmin%2Flog%2Flogrotate_ubuntu.sh

Role dice three digits

Edited from feedback:

Why can I not roll more than 2 digits worth of dice; for example, I can roll 99d6, but I cannot roll 100d6. I imagine you coded it like this for a reason, however if you could up that to maybe 4 digits, it would be better.

Dice enhancements

"roll 2d6 + d4" etcetera would be great to have...

unicode goodie does not take unicode input during duckpan goodie test

Query: unicode U+2000

DDG::ZeroClickInfo  {
    Parents       WWW::DuckDuckGo::ZeroClickInfo
    Linear @ISA   DDG::ZeroClickInfo, WWW::DuckDuckGo::ZeroClickInfo, Moo::Object
    public methods (4) : has_ttl, is_cached, new, ttl
    private methods (0)
    internals: {
        answer   "  U+2000 EN QUAD, decimal: 8192, HTML:  , UTF-8: 0xE2 0x80 0x80, block: General Punctuation, decomposition: U+2002",
        answer_type   "unicode_conversion",
        is_cached   1
    }
}

Query: unicode ü

Sorry, no hit on your goodies

I'm writing a IDN/Punycode goodie, but I'm not sure how to test it for Unicode input as 'goodie test' does not appear to handle it correctly.

Days between mark inclusive

Query: days between 1/1/2000 1/1/2001
reports: 366 days between

I suppose that means inclusive? We should note this or present both options like

365 (in between), 366 days (inclusive), 364 (not counting either end)

parsecron uses server time zone instead of users/UTC

Calculator comma formatting

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=424334%2B2253828

vs

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=4%2C24%2C334%2B22%2C53%2C828

The issue here is with comma -> period conversion, which is in place right now because of the way some non-U.S. numbers are formatted with commas. That line should be qualified with a check to make sure the comma formatting is appropriate before turning commas into periods. If the formatting isn't appropriate (e.g. this case) the numbers will fall through to the line that strips all the commas and the answer will be shown as desired.

Chess960 showing the same image for all queries

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chess960+123
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chess960+456
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chess960+744

cc @nospampleasemam @koosha--

roll dice

From a feedback email:

'roll dice' not working
While 'roll die', 'roll 2 dice', 'throw die', 'throw dice', and 'throw 2 dice' are all working, 'roll dice' is not.

GUID copy/paste

From feedback email:

guid / uuid
The GUID generator is a very useful feature.
However, could you please put some spaces before the GUID and at the end, and put the (randomly generated) on a separate line if you have to have it? It's very hard to select the GUID to copy/paste it presently.

ParseCron should give relative times

Gaganpreet ‏ @_gagan
@DuckDuckHack Results seem to be fixed to the server's timezone. A difference result, eg: "After 1 hour 5 minutes" will be much better.

Binary for non-ascii

Feedback:

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Binary for nonascii characters

When trying "binary" in search I do not get binary representation of nonascii characters. I get eight bits of something that I believe is first byte of its UTF-8 representation.

unicode & unidecode should accept \x{2126} and other input formats

N letter words more context

Right now the output looks like this: 5 letter words: fuzzy, upend, cared, mauls, quill, chips, wanes, spend, boron, laces, bayou, bluff, fight, bimbo, hoops, learn, vices, moths, rehab, imply, aegis, broil, thief, users, swear, trump, kiddo, nukes, vexed, mulch

I wonder if we should say it is random, like Random 5 letter words.

End with a period?

Add additional color calculator triggers

red: \d{0,4} green: \d{0,4} blue: \d{0,4}

etc.

---

IA Page: https://duck.co/ia/view/color_codes

"heads or tails" should trigger the coin flip Goodie

Given the current implementation of the Coin Goodie, this might not be as easy as it probably should be to extend. It should probably be re-written to be a little more flexible with the kinds of queries it can handle.

In goodie docs explain how to slurp utf like in Shortcut pull request

CurrencyIn should work for two-letter abbreviations

Like currency in AU

Also, what about money in AU?

Can use something like Locale::SubCountry::World; for that

Give more context for reverse plugin

https://duck.co/topic/weird-result-for-reverse-chronologically#28469000001122002

CurrencyIn "the $country"

Should work with countries that typically include an artiticle : "currency in the united states"