library-books

Technology Stack

Flask
Python 3
Pipenv

Overview

This application runs on a Raspberry Pi and uses a barcode scanner to get a book's ISBN number, scrape the Atlanta Fulton Public Library's website to pull reviews and other data about the book, and then renders a webpage to display it.

The Pi will display on some kind of TV screen. Because there is no mouse/keyboard input, the webpage should display entirely on the screen without needing to scroll. The reviews should appear in an auto-sliding carousel.

Directory

app.py # runs the Flask server and calls the scraper with the barcode number
scraper.py # scrapes the book data and passes a dictionary of the book data to generator
generator.py # structures the scraped data into HTML and writes to the review.html file
templates/
          header.html # base html file. put any refs to CSS and JS here
          review.html # this file is generated and ignored by git

Getting Started

Make sure you have both Python 3 and pipenv installed.

Run the following commands to get the local server running on localhost:5000

$ pipenv shell
$ pipenv install
$ python3 app.py

Notes