cannot change text to handwriting using pywhatkit

Question

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\HP\AppData\Local\Temp\tempCodeRunnerFile.python", line 2, in <module>
    pywhatkit.text_to_handwriting("""
  File "C:\Users\HP\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pywhatkit\handwriting.py", line 22, in text_to_handwriting
    raise exceptions.UnableToAccessApi("Unable to access Pywhatkit api right now")
pywhatkit.core.exceptions.UnableToAccessApi: Unable to access Pywhatkit api right now

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\HP\AppData\Local\Temp\tempCodeRunnerFile.python", line 2, in <module>
    pywhatkit.text_to_handwriting("""
  File "C:\Users\HP\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pywhatkit\handwriting.py", line 22, in text_to_handwriting
    raise exceptions.UnableToAccessApi("Unable to access Pywhatkit api right now")
pywhatkit.core.exceptions.UnableToAccessApi: Unable to access Pywhatkit api right now

Answer 1

Someone reported this issue on Github. The maintainers aren't hosting the API on Heroku (or anywhere else) at the moment.

They've made their source code for the API function available here though.

I've extracted the text_to_handwriting function below:

import urllib.request
import string
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
import cv2

char = string.ascii_lowercase
file_code_name = {}

width = 50
height = 0
newwidth = 0
arr = string.ascii_letters
arr = arr + string.digits + "+,.-? "
letss = string.ascii_letters


def getimg(case, col):
    global width, height, back
    try:
        url = (
            "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ankit404butfound/HomeworkMachine/master/Image/%s.png"
            % case
        )
        imglink = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
    except:
        url = (
            "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ankit404butfound/HomeworkMachine/master/Image/%s.PNG"
            % case
        )
        imglink = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
    imgNp = np.array(bytearray(imglink.read()))
    img = cv2.imdecode(imgNp, -1)
    cv2.imwrite(r"%s.png" % case, img)
    img = cv2.imread("%s.png" % case)
    img[np.where((img != [255, 255, 255]).all(axis=2))] = col
    cv2.imwrite("chr.png", img)
    cases = Image.open("chr.png")
    back.paste(cases, (width, height))
    newwidth = cases.width
    width = width + newwidth


def text_to_handwriting(string, rgb=[0, 0, 138], save_to: str = "pywhatkit.png"):
    """Convert the texts passed into handwritten characters"""
    global arr, width, height, back
    try:
        back = Image.open("zback.png")
    except:
        url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ankit404butfound/HomeworkMachine/master/Image/zback.png"
        imglink = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
        imgNp = np.array(bytearray(imglink.read()))
        img = cv2.imdecode(imgNp, -1)
        cv2.imwrite("zback.png", img)
        back = Image.open("zback.png")
    rgb = [rgb[2], rgb[1], rgb[0]]
    count = -1
    lst = string.split()
    for letter in string:
        if width + 150 >= back.width or ord(letter) == 10:
            height = height + 227
            width = 50
        if letter in arr:
            if letter == " ":
                count += 1
                letter = "zspace"
                wrdlen = len(lst[count + 1])
                if wrdlen * 110 >= back.width - width:
                    width = 50
                    height = height + 227

            elif letter.isupper():
                letter = "c" + letter.lower()
            elif letter == ",":
                letter = "coma"
            elif letter == ".":
                letter = "fs"
            elif letter == "?":
                letter = "que"

            getimg(letter, rgb)

    back.save(f"{save_to}")
    back.close()
    back = Image.open("zback.png")
    width = 50
    height = 0
    return save_to


text_to_handwriting("hello, world!", save_to="myimage.png")