NextMoo!

Web version of the classic cowsay and cowthink commands, now with an API endpoint.

This is a clone of the Moo! project coded from scratch, this time developed with Next.js and deployed with Vercel. Many issues have been solved and many improvements have been made.

Powered by cowsayjs.

 ______
< moo! >
 ------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Website

Start to create and share custom cows here: https://nextmoo.vercel.app

Change the fields to customize the cow and use the share command in the terminal to get the direct link to your custom cow and the curl commands to make requests. See bellow for more details.

The clear command is usefull if there are many lines in the terminal and you wan to clear it. The other commands are just for fun, use help to see the full list.

Custom website cows and API reference

You can share custom cows with a direct link to the website and request custom cows on text/plain format from https://nextmoo.vercel.app/api with The GET or POST methods.

Use the next parameters to customize your cow:

• message: The message to be printed
• cow: Cow name. Any of the name of theses files without the extension. Eg: dragon or stegosaurus.
• action: say or think, the default value is say.
• mode: The cow mode are predefined faces, leave empty to default face {"eyes":"oo"}:
  • b: Borg {"eyes":"=="}
  • d: Dead {"eyes":"xx","tongue":"U"}
  • g: Greedy {"eyes":"$$"}
  • p: Paranoia {"eyes":"@@"}
  • s: Stoned {"eyes":"**","tongue":"U"}
  • t: Tired {"eyes":"--"}
  • w: Wired {"eyes":"00"}
  • y: Youthful {"eyes":".."}
• eyes: Custom cow eyes. Only the first two characters will be used. The default value is oo
• tongue: Custom cow tongue. Only the first two characters will be used. The default value is an empty string.
• wrap: Wrap column. Where the message should be wrapped. The default value is 30 for website and 40 for API requests. For POST requests this field accepts strings and integers. To display the message exactly as provided (no wrap), use an empty string as wrap value, in general any invalid integer such as false, null, arrays or objects are assumed to be no wrap.
• json: Response in JSON format. Any truthy makes the API returns a JSON with two properties; res with a string of the cow, and req with the normalized requested data. If any falsy value is given, the API responds with a plain text with the generated cow. The falsy value is assumed by default.

For website links or GET requests use the query string to provide the parameters. For POST requests provide the parameters as a JSON on the request body.

Examples

Link to custom web cow: https://nextmoo.vercel.app/?message=Don%27t+be+sad&cow=small&mode=y

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GET request with curl

curl 'https://nextmoo.vercel.app/api?message=Whatever+you+want%2C+I+want&tongue=U+'

Response

 ___________________________
< Whatever you want, I want >
 ---------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
             U  ||----w |
                ||     ||

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POST request with fetch

fetch(`https://nextmoo.vercel.app/api`, {
  method: `POST`,
  body: JSON.stringify({
    message: `Whoever is afraid to die, should not be born.\n\n\t-- The life`,
    cow: `dragon-and-cow`,
    action: `think`,
    mode: `p`,
    wrap: ``
  })
})
  .then(res => res.text())
  .then(text => { console.log(text); });

Console output

 _______________________________________________
( Whoever is afraid to die, should not be born. )
(                                               )
(         -- The life                           )
 -----------------------------------------------
                       o                    ^    /^
                        o                  / \  // \
                         o   |\___/|      /   \//  .\
                          o  /O  O  \__  /    //  | \ \           *----*
                            /     /  \/_/    //   |  \  \          \   |
                            @___@`    \/_   //    |   \   \         \/\ \
                           0/0/|       \/_ //     |    \    \         \  \
                       0/0/0/0/|        \///      |     \     \       |  |
                    0/0/0/0/0/_|_ /   (  //       |      \     _\     |  /
                 0/0/0/0/0/0/`/,_ _ _/  ) ; -.    |    _ _\.-~       /   /
                             ,-}        _      *-.|.-~-.           .~    ~
            \     \__/        `/\      /                 ~-. _ .-~      /
             \____(@@)           *.   }            {                   /
             (    (--)          .----~-.\        \-`                 .~
             //__\\  \__ Ack!   ///.----..<        \             _ -~
            //    \\               ///-._ _ _ _ _ _ _{^ - - - - ~

License

Licensed under the MIT license.

Share and enjoy!