Bart's Chalkboard

or "Bart as a Service" is a service that provides an HTML rendering of text you type onto Bart's chalkboard.

Usage

• https://bart.olore.net?s=YOUR_MESSAGE
• The browser will convert spaces to %20 but don't worry, that is expected
• Using this URL, the service returns an HTML page. So it's less of a service and more of a old school CGI
• This is easy to type into your browser and share with your friends!

Slack

• My real goal in creating this was to make a Slack app so that someone could type /bart some message and it would drop the image with "some message" on the chalkboard into your Slack channel (kinda like a simpler /giphy)
• It's functional, albeit a bit of a Rube Goldberg machine.
  • Slack POSTs the message (and other stuff) to this service
  • The service fires up Chrome via puppeteer and calls the ?s=YOUR_MESSAGE url from above
  • It then takes a screenshot and saves it to disk
  • Finally it response to the Slack message with the URL to the generated image

You can host this yourself and run it for your Slack workspace, as I am currently doing. I think trying to publish it into the official Slack App directory will raise copyright questions, so I am not planning on hosting it for the world.

Discord

• Add this bot to your discord, then send it messages!
• !bart testing 1 2 3
• Create/Modify .env to add a value for DISCORD_TOKEN=
• I followed instructions here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/how-to-make-a-discord-bot/
• Here is documentation for bots https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/master/general/welcome

Thanks

• Inspiration: http://www.ranzey.com/generators/bart/index.html (Seriously check this out!)
• Font: https://www.fontspace.com/pencilpete-font-f8223
• Tooling: https://github.com/janl/mustache.js/