Overview of My Submission

Would you like yo watch Star Wars from MongoDB using nothing but mongo shell ? You are in good hands. The wonderful work done by Simon Jansen in https://asciimation.co.nz/ has been ported to MongoDB in full glory. You need nothing but a MongoDB and mongo shell.

Submission Category:

Choose Your Own Adventure

Link to Code

Additional Resources / Info

Trailer:

I use starasciiwars database but you can select your own.
For trailer you only need the github repo to watch the entire movie. Open https://asciimation.co.nz/ in chrome

Press F12 to open developer console and paste the following code into console to download movie as a txt file.

var temp = document.createElement('a');
temp.href = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([film.join('\n')], { type: 'text/plain' }));
temp.download = 'starwars.txt';
temp.click();

Use the following command to convert txt to json file.

ascii2jsonmovie.py

Use the following command to import json file to DB

mongoimport --uri <your mongodb uri> --db starasciiwars --collection trailer --drop --jsonArray --type json --maintainInsertionOrder --username=<user name>  --file starwars.json

Use the following command for mongoshell to connect to MongoDB.

mongosh <your mongodb uri> --username=<user name>

Select starasciiwars database

use starasciiwars

Run the following command to watch the movie. you can use speedX variable to set the speed.

db.episodeIV.find().sort({_id:1}).forEach(function(frame){
cls();
speedX=1;
print(frame.line1);
print(frame.line2);
print(frame.line3);
print(frame.line4);
print(frame.line5);
print(frame.line6);
print(frame.line7);
print(frame.line8);
print(frame.line9);
print(frame.line10);
print(frame.line11);
print(frame.line12);
print(frame.line13);
sleep(frame.sleeptime*120*speedX);
});

Thanks to https://github.com/JLChnToZ for offline download