dejmedus/art-generated

Flask app to use DALL·E Images API

Create AI Art 🤖🎨

Flask app to generate images with the OpenAI DALL·E Images API.

Built with

• DALL·E Images API creates images from a text prompt
• Flask a python web framework
  • Uses the Jinja template engine
• Flask-SQLAlchemy, which simplifies SQLAlchemy for Flask
  • SQLAlchemy is an SQL toolkit and Object-Relational Mapper for Python
  • Connects to a SQLite database
• Flask Migrate to configure Alembic for Flask-SQLAlchemy
  • Alembic is a lightweight database migration tool for SQLAlchemy

Get Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3

Setup

1. Fork art-generated
2. Create a local clone of the forked repository
3. Using the terminal, move into your local copy

cd art-generated

🚨 Flask installed globally can cause 'Module not found' errors inside the venv. Consider pip3 uninstall flask

4. Create a virtual environment

MacOS/Linux

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

Windows

py -3 -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate

5. Install dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

6. Rename .env-copy to .env

mv .env-copy .env

7. Create an OpenAI account and fill in .env

OPENAI_API_KEY='<your api key>'
OPENAI_ORG_ID='<your organization>'

8. Create initial database migration

flask db init
flask db migrate -m "Initial migration."

When changes are made to the database model, run flask db upgrade¹

9. Run the app

flask --debug run

10. Generate images on the browser! 🎉

Screenshots

Homepage

Generated Image

Image History