Show HN: Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS

Re:Show HN: Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS by rpicard on Sunday May 19, 2013 @02:01AM (#5732007)

I use something similar that I created all the time. Mine connects to the DuckDuckGo API to pull the Zero-click info which is sourced from Wikipedia, Crunchbase, and a bunch of others. I never thought to open source it, but maybe I'll take a few minutes to do that soon.

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Re:Show HN: Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS by aaln on Sunday May 19, 2013 @02:14AM (#5732026)

Using the DuckDuckGo api sounds really interesting because Google just shut off it's SMS service. Please send link when possible.

Whit is meant for anyone to scale for access to any kind of data through sms.

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Re:Show HN: Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS by rpicard on Sunday May 19, 2013 @02:36AM (#5732067)

Sure thing. I'll probably re-do it in Flask because I looked at the code for the first time since last October and it's way more complicated than it needs to be. There are only a few lines of code, but there are a bunch of cruft files for the Perl framework I was using (Dancer). It'll only take a few minutes to port it though.

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Re:Show HN: Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS by rpicard on Sunday May 19, 2013 @04:05PM (#5734196)

I have the code up on GitHub, but the server I've been using to host the application myself isn't up right now. I have to debug some problem, but I don't think there is anything wrong with the code (just my deployment process).

Here it is: https://github.com/rpicard/text-ddg

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Re:Show HN: Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS by rpicard on Sunday May 19, 2013 @07:58PM (#5735000)

Okay, it's working now. I just needed to bind Gunicorn to 0.0.0.0 so it would be externally visible.

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