Merge pull request #634 from isaacwellish/PyPortal-Word-of-the-Day

Code and files for PyPortal Word of the Day

PyPortal_Word_of_the_Day/code.py

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+"""
+This example uses the Wordnik API to display Wordnik's Word of the Day.
+Each day a new word, it's part of speech, and definition
+will appear automatically on the display.
+"""
+
+import time
+import board
+from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal
+
+# Get wifi details and more from a secrets.py file
+try:
+    from secrets import secrets
+except ImportError:
+    print("WiFi settings are kept in settings.py, please add them there!")
+    raise
+
+# Set up where we'll be fetching data from
+DATA_SOURCE = "https://api.wordnik.com/v4/words.json/wordOfTheDay?api_key="+secrets['wordnik_token']
+WORD_LOCATION = ['word']
+PART_OF_SPEECH = ['definitions', 0, 'partOfSpeech']
+DEF_LOCATION = ['definitions', 0, 'text']
+CAPTION = 'wordnik.com/word-of-the-day'
+
+# determine the current working directory
+# needed so we know where to find files
+cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0]
+
+# Initialize the pyportal object and let us know what data to fetch and where
+# to display it
+pyportal = PyPortal(url=DATA_SOURCE,
+                    json_path=(WORD_LOCATION, PART_OF_SPEECH, DEF_LOCATION),
+                    status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL,
+                    default_bg=cwd+"/wordoftheday_background.bmp",
+                    text_font=cwd+"/fonts/Arial-ItalicMT-17.bdf",
+                    text_position=((50, 30),  # word location
+                                   (50, 50), # part of speech location
+                                   (50, 135)), # definition location
+                    text_color=(0x8080FF,
+                                0xFF00FF,
+                                0xFFFFFF),
+                    text_wrap=(0, # characters to wrap for text
+                               0,
+                               28),
+                    text_maxlen=(180, 30, 115), # max text size for word, part of speech and def
+                    caption_text=CAPTION,
+                    caption_font=cwd+"/fonts/Arial-ItalicMT-17.bdf",
+                    caption_position=(50, 220),
+                    caption_color=0x808080)
+
+print("loading...") # print to repl while waiting for font to load
+pyportal.preload_font() # speed things up by preloading font
+pyportal.set_text("\nWord of the Day") # show title
+
+while True:
+    try:
+        value = pyportal.fetch()
+        print("Response is", value)
+    except RuntimeError as e:
+        print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e)
+    time.sleep(10*60) # Update every 10 minutes