If the combined character length of all story fragments is more than 140, no tweet is posted. Evidently!

Do a check, esp for the story-combos that use songs.

Instead of specifying which story-combo should be tweeted during each of the loop cycles, pick a story-combo randomly to tweet.

If the Subject list and Object list has common entries, they might show up in the same sentence. See this tweet, for example: https://twitter.com/alfaaz/status/866924284475736064

Proposed solution: Check if randomSubject == randomObject; if yes, change one of them.

If a word has more than one meaning, and if these meanings spill over to several lines, only the first few lines are displayed in the image.
See this tweet: https://twitter.com/alfaaz/status/865441749350535169 where the OxFordDictionaries API returned about 15 results.

Show my an Urdu word, in nastaliq, can be written in Devanagari by displaying the Nastaliq letter forms and the corresponding Devanagari vowels and consonants.

Check if tweet text length is more than 140 and, if so, break up the text into two tweets. Needed for Hindi word meanings (Urdu word meanings go onto an image, so no char-count implication).

If a Hindi word returns no meanings, an incomplete sentence is tweeted:

Either show an error message if the Hindi dictionary does not have an entry for that word, or do not tweet at all.

Sometimes, the Hindi word has a cross-reference to another entry in the dictionary.

मर्तबा [{'id': 'idba60a51c-e54e-42be-802e-a0d3ef571040', 'crossReferences': [{'id': '%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE', 'type': 'another term for', 'text': 'मरतबा'}], 'crossReferenceMarkers': ['= मरतबा']}] length 1 Could not tweet Hindi words.

When this happens, look up the cross-referenced word and tweet its meanings.

See https://twitter.com/alfaaz/status/864377876057030657 where the word meaning is cut off.

Put all bot stories on a web page, so they are easily searchable

Link to the Platt's dictionary shows words that contain the tweeted word. See this tweet: https://twitter.com/alfaaz/status/866499581093326848

Expected behaviour: The link should contain only an exact match to the tweeted word.

Put all words (in Nastaliq and Devanagari, correctly spelt), with their definitions, on to a searcheable web page

The UR > EN meanings are in English. Good to show meanings in Hindi as well, mostly because most Urdu words will have entries in the Hindi dictionary anyway.
The Hindi dictionary doesn't have a translation endpoint yet, so the input needs to be in Devanagari and not Nastaliq.

https://twitter.com/_alfaaz_/status/873023039549702144

Handle the exception better

Sometimes, a search on the Platt's dictionary returns no results. See this tweet: https://twitter.com/alfaaz/status/866546040433811456

Solution: Either tweet a sorry message, or tweet a link to a correct entry in some other dictionary

Observation

• For UR > EN, the translations are here: under translations in ['results'][0]['lexicalEntries'][0]['entries'][0]['senses']. Sometimes, further words are contained in ['results'][1].

• For HI, the meanings are here: under definitions in ['results'][0]['lexicalEntries'][0]['entries'][0]['senses']. Sometimes, further words are contained in two more places:

  • under definitions in ['results'][0]['lexicalEntries'][1]['entries'][0]['senses']
  • under definitions in ['results'][0]['lexicalEntries'][0]['entries'][1]['senses']

ToDo in the code

For UR>EN, look for translations under:

• ['results'][0]['lexicalEntries'][0]['entries'][0]['senses']
• ['results'][1]['lexicalEntries'][0]['entries'][0]['senses']

For HI, look for definitions under:

• ['results'][0]['lexicalEntries'][0]['entries'][0]['senses']
• ['results'][0]['lexicalEntries'][0]['entries'][1]['senses']
• ['results'][0]['lexicalEntries'][1]['entries'][0]['senses']