Years by year event and fact

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Here is this app am working on. When user enter a year, event and fact about the year will be shown to the user.

I have been stuck at how to get facts for as many years as possible. Kindly help on how I can achieve. Either API or extension (free)

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Use the activity starter to launch a web search for Join('in ',year)

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I did this. This is my first time using the activity component.
activityStarter
As you can see, I use google search. And as expected, it open the browser and gave numerous answers.

Is there another way that won't involve google search result or Wikipedia?

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What is the benefit of the activity starter component? I can easily use the webViewer component to achieve the same result.
I read it can be used to open an Android camera, in which the camera component will also do the same. Blah.....Blah

Not yet convinced about its uses.

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Without doing the work of searching for a reliable and trustworthy source of historical information, and tailoring your efforts to that source, there's no point to putting any effort into the front end.

Unfortunately, searching for a reliable and trustworthy source of historical information is beyond the scope of this board.

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... and by the way, it doesn't belong here either.

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Yes. You are right. Thank

You haven't explained the extent of using the ActivityStarter component.

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There is a really helpful link on the AI2 web page:

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(Guide...)

in there you will find:

http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/reference/other/activitystarter.html

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A similar old project of mine.

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You can also use the ChatBot component.