Repo. for Birddb

Since my hosting credit ran dry, here is the source.

What is Birddb?

It was my high school capstone project. Basically, I created my own bird identification search engine using information scraped from crowd-sourced websites. A user could identify a bird by passing in color, location, and size to the engine. Pretty rad!

Does it work?

Well, kinda. Crowd-sourced information is not always accurate, and I had to use a primitive language-processing algorithm to extract the bird's colors and sizes from the websites. To fix these problems, I added a polling system where users can "vote" to correct a bird's color.

This system solves the problem of birds with incorrect information, so I also added a Contribute page for birds with incomplete information.

Can I try it out?

Unfortunately, I ran out of hosting credit, so no. I might upload some other videos and prototypes later though.

Dependencies

Django
Requests
Python3

Notes on deploying the server

Need to mess around with xenocano/settings.py to get ready for prod.

You also need to set the enviroment variable DJANGO_KEY

Recommendations

Set DEBUG to False in settings.py
Enable Django's template caching
Set up another database, such as postgres

FOLLOW THESE EXTREMELY LIMITED STEPS AT YOUR OWN RISK

THERE IS UNDOUBTEDLY MORE STEPS THAT I PROBABLY FORGOT ABOUT

A quick guide for quick set up (don't run on prod. before doing above steps)

python manage.py createcachetable
python manage.py collectstatic
DJANGO_KEY='MYCOOLKEY' python manage.py runserver

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