List all messages in a GroupMe group that are haikus.

Haiku, unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. The haiku first emerged in Japanese literature during the 17th century, as a terse reaction to elaborate poetic traditions, though it did not become known by the name haiku until the 19th century.

From Britannica

You'll need an OCaml installing along with dune. cohttp-lwt-unix, ppx_lwt, and dotenv are all required dependencies.

1. Clone the repo

2. Create a .env file with your GroupMe API token. If you don't have an API token, you can obtain one for your GroupMe account here.

GROUPME_API_TOKEN=[your_token_here]

3. Build the project

$ dune build

4. Run the haikus executable

$ dune exec haikus

Example program output:

Competitive Coding and Algorithms: 101649268
Megachat: 102541017
Mortarboard: 99734377
(Quarantined) Megachat: 95387682
Pike Burger Club: 24929854
Public GroupMe API Development Chat: 27317261
Hit the Gym: 44099295

Enter a group id:
44099295

Strings of code align creating a digital world. Infinite pixels.

Bugs in the system; lines of code intertwining. Program comes to life

Elegant code flows, pure functions without side effects, functional bliss reigns.

The plain text list of syllables was obtained from "Moby Hyphenation List" by Grady Ward on Project Gutenberg. This list was further processed by replacing the original syllable delimiters with spaces. Despite containing over 60,000 words, there are still quite a few missing, common words. A potential solution would be to use a dictionary API to fetch the syllabic breakdown of missing words and cache the result. See this issue.