Metaphorpsum

A wise– if perhaps slightly pedantic– generator of metaphor.

Some posit the ramstam dogsled to be less than minim. What we don't know for sure is whether or not those airmails are nothing more than carpenters. The statistic is a drain. We can assume that any instance of a restaurant can be construed as a draffy farm.

Options

Give me paragraph(s) containing sentence(s) each; wrap them in <p> tags.

Huh? Numbers please. Above 0.

API Usage

Get paragraphs by sending an AJAX request to

metaphorpsum.com/paragraphs/<numberOfParagraphs>

metaphorpsum.com/paragraphs/<numberOfParagraphs>/<numberOfSentences>

limit: 20 paragraphs / 50 sentences

Or just grab a few sentences by hitting

metaphorpsum.com/sentences/<numberOfSentences>

Add a URL parameter p=true to get each paragraph in <p> tags

metaphorpsum.com/paragraphs/3?p=true

Using OS X or Linux? Try this in the command line:

curl http://metaphorpsum.com/sentences/3

And here’s a nifty bash script that copies metaphorpsum straight to your clipboard

function meta() { curl http://metaphorpsum.com/sentences/$@ | pbcopy ;}

usage: meta 5

Using Alfred? There's a workflow for that.

https://github.com/ColeTownsend/metaphor-ipsum-workflow

Built and maintained by Kyle Stetz. Get the source code on GitHub.