Project Demo

Project Inspiration

This website is my Final Project for CS50 Edx Course 2020. My goal was to create a website that would show a user their "Florida Man Horoscope", which I had learned about years back. A Florida Man Horoscope is created by typing in your date of birth into Google + "Florida Man" and the list of headlines that return are your horoscope. (Here's an example.)

Origin of the Meme: Know Your Meme

Wikipedia: Link

To accomplish this I built a web-scraper that would search for 'Florida Man' headlines and save the results from every day of the year (including leap year). I put those results into a database and any user can query them while searching the website.

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Built With

• Python
• Sqlite3
• Flask
• Heroku
• Render

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Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

• Download Python (link)
• Download Flask (link)

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone gh repo clone smhenderson89/FloridaMan 

2. Setup virtual environment:

   . venv/bin/activate

3. Install all pip package requirements:

   Windows

   pip install -r requirements.txt

   Mac

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt

4. Setup Environmental varialbe:

   export FLASK_APP=app.py

5. Launch Website

   python3 app.py

6. Go to location host location, should be running at localhost:5000

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Roadmap

I'm pretty happy with how the site turned out. There are some sretch goal ideas I have (making a twitter bot to post a new news story everyday, word cloud), but for now it was a great learning experience.

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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Contact

Scott Henderson Github: https://github.com/smhenderson89

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Acknowledgments

• The DigitalCrafts Teachers and Teaching Assistants

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