/LabelGenerator

The LabelGenerator is a simple webapp, build with Flask. It serves png and jpeg image of our labels with dynamic strings on it. You can choose any name/string just via the path to the image. Find a running instance here: labelgenerator.vspace.one.

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vspace.one e.V. LabelGenerator

The LabelGenerator is a simple webapp, build with Flask. It serves png and jpeg image of our labels with dynamic strings on it. You can choose any name/string just via the path to the image. Find a running instance here: https://labelgenerator.vspace.one/. Or the development branch here: https://dev.labelgenerator.vspace.one/.

API Access

Make requests to

GET http(s)://example.org/<labelname>/<your_name>.png

or

GET http(s)://example.org/<labelname>/<your_name>.jpeg

to receive the requested label as image.

Install

In the following is describe how to install and run the LabelGenerator.

You got the following options:

  • run as native Flask server
  • run via commandline locally
  • run as Docker Container

Install locally

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install opencv-python flask Flask-Caching

Run the commandline tool

The Label Generator can be run as commandline tool. Execute:

source .venv/bin/activate
python src/CMDInterface.py -o <outputfile> -t <text> -l <label>

Alternative opts are -h for help and -v for version.

Run the server

The more common use case is to run the Label Generator as a Webapplication. There for run the following:

source .venv/bin/activate
python src/Server.py -p <port> -i <hostip> -d <debug>

The default port is 5007, the default host ip is 0.0.0.0. Both can be overwritten via opts. The debug flag is either 1 or 0.

TODO: Alternative opts are -h for help and -v for version.

Install as Docker Container

Beside running LabelGenerator locally you can deploy it as Docker Container. Therefore run the following:

docker build -t labelgenerator .
docker run -d -p 5007:5007 labelgenerator

Contribute

We use gitflow for the development. So please use the branch names develop, feature/, ... and use PullRequests for your contributions.

Licence

Please find the licence here licence.