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Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

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Post by acomjean »

dopeboy wrote: post #32

This is impressive. It found everything I tried. If the author is reading, showing GIFs or a small video clip instead of a static image would be preferable. My favorite Simpsons quote: https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=up+and+atom&e=S07E02&t=673... . Coach: Up and atom! Rainier Wolfcastle: Up and at them. Coach: Up and atom! Rainier: Up and at them! Coach: [annoyed] Up and atom! Rainier: [louder] Up and at them! Coac…

Simpsons gifs as a service... al la:

https://twitter.com/StarWarsDotGif

Its open source and maybe could be repurposed?

https://github.com/LindseyB/starwars-dot-gif

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

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Post by mikewhy »

acomjean wrote: post #40
reaperhulk wrote: post #17

One of the authors here. I blogged a bit the other day about how we built this: https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons-screensho...

Cool. "We also parse subtitle files and correlate each subtitle line's timecode with the timecode of the screenshot. Finally, the frinkiac binary can upload the data set to frinkiac-server. " Could you elaborate on this parsing of the subtitle files. I've seen the "open source" star wars gifs file with the dialog and time codes[1], but I'm not sure how they pulled the text from the close-captioning? (edit: someone el…

> Could you elaborate on this parsing of the subtitle files.

Not the creator, but subtitles are easy to find, and super easy to parse.

    1
    00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,375
    Senator, we're making
    our final approach into Coruscant.

    2
    00:02:20,476 --> 00:02:22,501
    Very good, Lieutenant.

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

on the legal/lawyer talk tip - there have been a few notable other simpsons screencap repositories (like Lardlad) that have remained online for years. Wondering if there's some leeway or can't chase after a single frame (rather than video with picture and sound, which they are notoriously strict on youtube about etc)

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

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Post by squeaky-clean »

doodpants wrote: post #24

I was hoping to find the quote in which Grandpa Simson mentions Estes Kefauver, but searching for "Kefauver" yields no results. :-(

It looks like there's no episodes indexed past season 15, and this quote is from season 20.

https://frinkiac.com/?p=episode&e=S20E14 Should be the episode.

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

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Post by rconti »

Gorbzel wrote: post #13
md224 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I searched for "moon pie" and didn't find what I was looking for. :(

Yeah, I was saying Boo-urns, and it couldn't find it. Also, yeah, this is coming down as soon as the lawyers get ahold of it.

They may or may not (be allowed to) have a sense of humor about it. Our 24 Hours of LeMons car's publicity was sent to Matt Groening by a friend, and he passed it around the office. Apparently he asked their publicity folks if they could invite us up to show off the car about the same time that legal asked about sending us a cease and desist.

In the case of the car, it's probably fair use and the only issue was likely that we have non-Fox-approved sponsorship on it, but they probably decided their advertisers wouldn't complain about it because it's not exactly big bucks changing hands here.

So yeah, we got to meet Matt Groening and David X Cohen and Al Jean and a lot of the writers. It was definitely a cool experience.

http://www.thehomercar.com

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