Frinkiac.com

The Frinkiac is a search engine and web site that shows screen caps from The Simpsons related to a phrase or word entered. It claims to have over 3 million screen caps. As of May 2016, screenshots from the first seventeen seasons of The Simpsons are in Frinkiac's database.
==Creators==
* Paul Kehrer
* Sean Schulte
* Allie Young
==Development history==
Paul Kehrer and Sean Schulte had the idea of a search engine for screenshots of The Simpsons based on quotes from the show for several years. The two often communicated using lines from the series while at work, and it was very hard for them to find screenshots related to the quotes on Google. Development of Frinkiac began around August 2015. Most of Frinkiac's code, written in the Go language in around a week, determines which screenshot frame is most pertinent to the search term by cutting each scene into 100 buckets of matching size amount. The standard color of each bucket is then used to compare it with a frame of the bucket in the previous frame, and the image is saved if these two buckets are different enough. In addition to parsing episode video files with ffmpeg and cgo, the code also analyzes subtitle files, matching the timecodes of the subtitles and the screenshots.
After a few weeks of Allie Young creating the user interface, the three people involved in making Frinkiac used it with their relatives, but didn't launch it to public until February 2, 2016, starting with almost three million screenshots from episodes of the show's first fifteen seasons. On the afternoon of May 15, 2016, Frinkiac was updated with the addition of 201,877 screenshots and 21,444 subtitles for episodes from the sixteenth and seventeenth seasons of The Simpsons. The GIF loop time limit was also increased to seven seconds, because, as Kehrer joked, it was "derived from my desire to see Grandpa walk in circles at the burlesque house entrance". Kehrer also announced that day some features for the site that were in the works, such as mp4 and WebMs support for GIF files, conversion of subtitles into other languages, the ability to control the font and font size of the text in a meme image, and a showcase of Simpsons screenshots and memes. In a February 2016 interview, Kehrer said that he'd liked to include more complex search parameters to find well-known screenshots of scenes that don't have much dialogue.
==Notes==
* It's not clear if this site has the legal rights to show these screen caps, but Matt Groening has a history of being lenient on derivative works. FOX and other related copyright owners may not be so lenient.
==Gallery==
16998716 1869062793330899 2118235015483307321 n.jpg|An example of Frinkiac's image-captioning feature, based on a screenshot from the episode "Homer Badman". The original image can be found here.
17353644 1261454617301550 2500939541779129835 n.jpg|Another example showing how the captioning feature can be used to incorporate memes, based on a screenshot from the episode "Marge Gets a Job". The original line was, "Let me be the first to say, kabebu kazini." The original image can be found here.
==Trivia==
* The Website's name is an homage to Jonathan Frink, and more specifically to his Frinkiac 7 computer in the episode Much Apu About Nothing.
* The logo's image was taken from the episode Bye Bye Nerdie, where Frink shouts that " is exactly three" in order to make a group of nerds quiet. However, in contrast to the cel animated original scene, the website's logo is colored digitally.
==External links==
* App Android (dead link)
* Frinkiac.com
** FAQ
** frinkiac.feedback@gmail.com Email address for feedback
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