Bee Movie Script

The bee movie, originally a children's movie has become quite a meme online. After some time in a voice chat I went into a competition with polar to see who could write up a script to spam a user's dms with the entire bee movie script.

When I wrote this script discord had a message limit of 2000. Before sending the script I had to paginate the text into ~2k character segments. This was pretty simple to do and I wrote a quick generator.

In the generator it accepted a string of the script and the number of chars to paginate. I run an integer division on the length of the text to "chunk" the text and then yield a substring of the text.

The way this works is quite simple. Let's start with an example text "abcdefgh". Let's also set n to 2 so it will be easier to understand.
On the first iteration the index (i) is 0. When i is 0 we can see the math

yield s[(0 * n) : (0 * n) + n]

We already know that n is 2 so we can substitute that in too.

yield s[(0 * 2) : (0 * 2) + 2]

if we simplify the equation then the first response from the generator will be

yield s[0 : 2]

Since python starts at 0 and doesn't include the final character then the output of the first run would be ab.

On the second iteration i is 1.

If we substitute i as 1 and n for 2.

yield s[(1 * 2) : (1 * 2) + 2]

The computer solves it down to

yield s[2:4]

which returns the next 2 characters, cd.

This generator will run until all of the characters have been sent.
Sending the text

for i in parse(script):
    pyperclip.copy("```\n" + i + "\n```")
    pyautogui.hotkey("ctrl", "v")
    press("enter")
    time.sleep(1)

Now that I had paginated the data I needed to send it as efficiently as possible. Discord had a ratelimit of 1 message / second but there was a substantial delay when typing 2k characters. Even when using direct windows keyboard commands the text would display agonizingly slow (500 wpm). After a bit of fiddling around I found an easy solution. Using a small python module called pyperclip I was able to copy the text to my computer and then only had to send two keyboard commands (ctrl + v) and the text would be pasted and sent into the chat.

This was so efficient that I didn't have to record the output time and subtract that from my time.sleep statement!