This is a handy program in C# that will read from the provided JSON file
and output the quote and auther into two variables, quote and
author (very intuitive naming scheme).
This can be used in a wide range of areas, such as a daily motivation toast notification on your desktop, a text display in your app, or a positive daily email.
Though this program is quite simple, there are a few things you should know.
- Instead of using an external library, like Json.NET, this program uses a text regex splitter to maintain its lightweightness. You should never have any interference with this, but it would be a good idea to take a look at it anyway in case you add more quotes (line 19 of main.cs).
- There are a few quotes that are exceedingly long and may not work for all display formats. The longest being 232 characters. If this is an issue for your program, you can implement a function that re-picks a quote until it finds one of your suitable size. Most quotes in this list are less than 150 characters.
- There are some quotes that use the quotation character, ". These obviously are escaped (aka they have a backslash) so you should be fine but you might want to be careful of these if they will interfere with your text formatting in any way.
The original list of quotes and basis of this program was inspired by
the gist from @Signed0. Check that out here.
I copied his json file and added ~30 more quotes. Then I created the C# integration.
If you are using Python, be sure to check out his gist because he has a code sample there.