QR Codes

Create QR Codes using the qrcode Python library

Quick Start

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/1homas/QR_Codes.git

Create your Python environment

pip install pipenv          # Python virtual environment manager
pipenv install --python 3.9 # Python 3.9+ is currently recommended
pipenv install pillow       # Python Imaging Library
pipenv install qrcode       # QR Code library
pipenv shell                # launch the environment

URL QR Code

Generate a Text QR code for a URL :

# PNG
qr "https://github.com/1homas/QR_Codes" > QR_Code.png

# SVG
qr --factory=svg "https://github.com/1homas/QR_Codes" > QR_Code.svg

# ASCII Characters
qr --ascii "https://github.com/1homas/QR_Codes" > QR_Code.txt

Preview the images in your OS or a browser and cat the QR_Code.txt file in a terminal with a monospaced font to view it properly:

cat QR_Code.txt

    █▀▀▀▀▀█  ▀  ▄█▄▄▀██▀▄ █▀▀▀▀▀█
    █ ███ █  ▄▄▀██▄▄▀▀▄▀▀ █ ███ █
    █ ▀▀▀ █ ▄▄▄ ▀██ ▀ ▀▄▄ █ ▀▀▀ █
    ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▄█▄█ █ ▀▄█ ▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
    ▀ ▄█▄█▀▄██▄ ▀ ▄█▀▄▄▀▄▀▄▀ ▄  ▄
    █▀█▀ █▀▀ ▄██▄ ▄ ▀▀██▄▀  █▀██
    █ █▀▄█▀█▄ ▄ █    ▀▀▄ █▀  ▀ ▀▀
    ▀▀ ▀ ▄▀▄▄ █▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ █▄█▀▀█▀█▀
    ▀  █▀▄▀▄█▀██▀▀▀ ▄ ▄ █▄▄█ ▄ ▀▄
    ▀ ██▄ ▀▀▄▄▀▀▄█ ▄▀▄█ ▄█ ██  ██
    ▀ ▀▀  ▀ █▄▄▄▀▄▀ ██▄██▀▀▀█ █▄▄
    █▀▀▀▀▀█ ▄█ ▄ █▀ █▀▀ █ ▀ █▄▄█▄
    █ ███ █ ▄▄█▀▀▄█▀▀ ▄▄█▀███▄▄▄▀
    █ ▀▀▀ █  ▀ ▀▀▀▀  ▄▄██▄  █▀▀▄▀
    ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀     ▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀

URL Code with Logo Image

Edit the qr_urls.py script with your document names and URLs
Save an image named logo.png for the logo in PNG format
Run the script:
```
qr_urls.py
```
Then view the generated image:

WiFi QR Code

Edit the qr_wifi.py script with your SSID parameters
Run the script and optionally redirect the HTML output to a file
```
qr_wifi.py
qr_wifi.py > SSID.html
```

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License.