Another random adjective-noun name generator; seeking names with punk poetry, the terms in the base list were hand-selected largely from band names, album titles, and beat generation writing.
Alternatively, it also includes a list of words taken from "The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry", first published by J. H. Quick of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London, England in the Institution's Students' Quarterly Journal vol 15 no. 58 p. 22 in December 1944. (The Turbo-Encabulator text was parsed with help from the exellent spaCy NLP library.)
Suitable for use as either a Google Cloud Function:
gcloud functions deploy namer \
--entry-point namer \
--runtime python39 \
--trigger-http \
--allow-unauthenticatedor a simple command line script:
python main.py --list=encabulatorCurrently available at https://us-central1-whereami-map.cloudfunctions.net/namer
GETrequest to/returns one name as plain text- Add
list=encabulatorto the request, either as JSON or query-string arguments, to get a name based on the Turbo-Encabulator terms - (
list=nameralso works to get the original list, but is not required) - There are no other methods or endpoints
main.py uses only standard library, so you should be able invoke main.py directly, without needing to activate a virtualenv or install any requirements. (Included requirements files are for installing functions-framework for local cloud function testing.) It will default to the original namer list, or you can pass it (--list|-l)=encabulator to get a name based on Turboencabulator terms.