Get a random quote from QuoteDB

Posted in Internet by bjgreenberg 803 days ago

Get a random quote of the day or every few minutes from QuoteDB.

Geeklet files to download

quotes.glet

Comments

bjgreenberg 804 days ago

quotesource=http://www.quotedb.com/quote/quote.php?action=random_quote

curl -s ${quotesource} |sed -e :a -e 's/]*>//g;/

Russ77 446 days ago

This is what Bjgreenberg meant to post above:

quotesource=http://www.quotedb.com/quote/quote.php?action=random_quote curl -s ${quotesource} |sed -e :a -e 's/]*>//g;/

brokenjukeboxx 728 days ago

Any way to change the refresh rate? changing it in the geeklet settings pane doesn't work...

ren7on 120 days ago

Hi!do you know how i can show accented characters? i made a script for italian quote of the day but with every outpot codemaker i use (UTF, UNicode, ascii) i cannot show accented signs!

thank you!