magic8

magic8 is a fun commandline utility to summon an answer from the beyond - ask your question and receive one of 21 possible answers! Impress, wow, and delight your friends by divining the answer to their every yes or no question!

No factual or realistic answers provided, do not base your life or anything serious on the output from this program. Program sold at promotional and rest-of-the-time price of £0.00. While stocks last. Terms and conditions apply*

*No actual terms and conditions apply

Installation

cargo install --git https://github.com/andybzn/magic-8-ball --bin magic8

Usage

Ask the ball a question, and an answer will be returned.

# Ask the ball a question
magic8 "your question goes here"

# Return just the answer text
magic8 -a "your question goes here"
magic8 --answer-only "will I order pizza tonight?"

# Return the question and answer as a json object
magic8 -j "your question goes here"
magic8 --json "or will I order chinese takeout?"

If a question is asked with no arguments, the returned answer will be color coded (colors use the terminal color palette) based on the tone of the answer:

• Green -> good news
• Yellow -> non-committal
• Red -> bad juju

Contributing

This project is not currently accepting contributions.

License

magic8 is MIT licensed