Early beta of a free web based article rewriter

http://www.gimmeaniche.com/spinner/

It's very, very basic right now but what I'm aiming for is to have something just like power article rewriter completely web based. My main concern at this point is getting a synonym database that I can use. I can scrape/return from thesaurus.com in real time but that's going to eat bandwidth and I don't know if they'll ban me. I'll have to find another source to scrape.

If you put in content in the correct format however it will spin correctly, at least as far as I can tell. You just have to be careful that your formatting is right.

Clicking on the add brackets button will just put brackets around whatever you have highlighted so you can start typing in your alternatives.

Scraping ginormous synonyms list now but might not get to finish until after the weekend

great idea pm us with any details and things you need help with.

Awesome initiative by you Danny. I am happy that you know many of us need help for avoiding Google screaming SPAM.. Since this is a Beta, i recommend you to take help of BotWiz(Coolest Programmer of BHW).

Thanks guys. I think I've actually got most of this figured out. I just got lazy yesterday after finishing this much and let my synonyms scrape.

The only thing is the database I scraped returns the same thing for say "abide", "abides", "abiding". I'm going to see if there's anything I can do about that. Can't worry too much until saturday though. Day job has got me on some projects I need to focus on.

Edit: Looks like I'm going to be able to mine all the right parts of speech. Hopefully after the day job I'll get to finalize the thesaurus part. It's really a lot slower when you don't have that ability.

I would also like to know if anyone has any feature requests.

Hmm, isn't this just doing what PAR does, once the synonyms have been inserted?

As in, once the synonyms have been added it will just randomly select one of them between the {}?

Apologies if this isn't the case.

Yes it is, but PAR isn't free and I know people spend a lot of time trying to crack it and stuff (I've read the threads).

The really powerful part about it (and PAR) is that you can nest {}s. So you can have three completely different sentences rotating as your first sentence, then have phrases in there rotating, then words in those phrases rotating, etc.

I'm scraping my thesaurus file again. I got about 80,000 words in there but it's all on my local server. I'm not releasing another beta until I'm more or less happy with it.

Glad to see you contributing. While you are still in the beta stages, perhaps you should add a call to the Google Translate API to do a re-write also, I.E. English --> German --> Spanish --> English (or other good combos). That seems to help on a lot of articles without causing too many issues. Perhaps add the option to do that, would be a nice feature.

Actually that's not a bad idea. I could set up a bunch of different tabs. Like generate one from your template first, then have the option to google translate.

The only issue might be with limits on the google translate API. Gotta look into that.