lovesay has been superseded by lovesay.rs!

lovesay.rs is a much cleaner and feature complete version of lovesay written in rust (I fell for "rewrite it in rust") and will likely be the only version to receive any future updates.

It has ALL of the features that lovesay does and also adds proper support for pipes and a better way to pass in quotes through the cli.

With that said, this is the original version of lovesay written with a lot of love, feel free to use this one as well :)

lovesay is a simple python script that displays a quote from a loved one based on the day of the month or a quote passed in through the cli arguments.

Note: These requirements only apply if using you're using lovesay to print a different quote for each day of the month.

• A quotes file stored in $HOME/.config/lovesay/
• Each quote must be on a new line, see the example quotes file in .example/quotes
• (optional) A partner to write you 31 lines full of love, one for each day of the month

Install from pip

pip3 install lovesay

Install from source

• First, install poetry

git clone https://github.com/dotzenith/lovesay.git
cd lovesay
poetry build
pip3 install ./dist/lovesay-0.3.10.tar.gz

lovesay can be used in a similar fashion to cowsay

lovesay "Hello World"

if there's a quotes file in $HOME/.config/lovesay/, lovesay can be used without any arguments

lovesay

if you'd like to use a quotes stored somewhere other than the path above, the LOVESAY_PATH env variable can be used as such

export LOVESAY_PATH="~/path/to/file"

lovesay can also be used with a variety of different color schemes.

lovesay uses catppuccin(mocha) as it's default color scheme, but a different one can be specified using the --color option.

For example:

lovesay # uses catppuccin

lovesay -c nord # uses nord 

Supported color schemes as of now:

• catppuccin - latte, frappe, macchiato, mocha
• nord
• dracula
• gruvbox
• onedark
• tokyonight
• ayu
• palenight
• gogh

by default, lovesay checks for the quotes file at $HOME/.config/lovesay/quotes if there is nothing there and no quote is given using the cli args, it will just print out a heart with no quote

I wrote lovesay because I got tired of seeing neofetch or pfetch every time I opened my terminal. I wanted something more personal.

Seeing words full of love from my partner is a lot better than any other command I could possibly run. It makes my terminal feel cozy, welcoming, and as is the case with most things my partner touches, it makes my terminal feel like home.

I hope that someone else finds a use for this little script as well. Love is a wonderful thing, and we could all use a little bit more of it in our lives (especially arch linux users)

0.3.11 - Updates to the heart emoji