Find jokes on a user provided topics using Python

Prerequisites :

• Http Request methods – Python requests
• pyfiglet

Python requests module helps us make Http requests to specified URL. In this article we will make a json request to this url:  https://icanhazdadjoke.com/ and develop a project wherein the user enters any word and the output would be a joke related to that word. 

We will be using API (library request) to search jokes using a keyword entered by the user if we get multiple results on the keyword entered then one of those jokes will be displayed randomly.

Modules Used

• requests module allows us to sent the Https requests using python
• pyfiglet module converts the ASCII texts to ASCII art fonts
• termcolor module helps us format color in the output terminal
• random module generates random numbers numbers in Python

Approach

• Import module
• Add header, to specify in for, is data to be stored, by default it is html text(Here, we are getting data in JSON format)
• Ask user for input
• Pass input as searching element to retrieve data from URL
• Print retrieved data.

Program:

import requests
import pyfiglet
import termcolor
from random import choice

header = pyfiglet.figlet_format("Find a joke!")
header = termcolor.colored(header, color="white")
print(header)

term = input("Let me tell you a joke! Give me a topic: ")

response_json = requests.get("https://icanhazdadjoke.com/search",
                             headers={"Accept": "application/json"}, params={"term": term}).json()

results = response_json["results"]

total_jokes = response_json["total_jokes"]
print(total_jokes)

if total_jokes > 1:
    print(f"I've got {total_jokes} jokes about {term}. Here's one:\n", choice(
        results)['joke'])

elif total_jokes == 1:
    print(f"I've got one joke about {term}. Here it is:\n", results[0]['joke'])

else:
    print(f"Sorry, I don't have any jokes about {term}! Please try again.")

Output