felixriegbaumhauer / squadup

Seize The Day's Project

#SquadUp

A revolutionay and exciting new web app that seeks to encourage communication and interaction between friends and humanity in general. Users are able to see all users who have the same classes by uploading their school schedule and share their current location with their friends, which is displayed on Google Maps. On the app, they can also message their friends, video chat, and play a location based guessing game.

Link to a demo of the project: https://youtu.be/8SbRqSTTsBU

#Nessecary Packages:

to get all requried packages: pip install -r requirements.txt

included packages are:

-requests

-twilio==5.6.0

-fake-factory==0.5.3

-python-dotenv==0.6.0

#Launch Instructions:

1. Clone or pull the nessecary repo from github

2. install the nedded packages, simpilly done by running "pip install -r requirements.txt"

3. put keys.txt at the root of the file

4. run the app "$python app.py"

5. Enjoy

#APIs used by the project:

Google maps API: used to display where users are on a map, thus allowing for better visualization of where friends are and is primarilly used in the map on the home page.

OCR API: this api is used to turn images holding text into text that can be used by computers, this is used by our site when a user inputs a picture of their schedue.

TWILIO: Used for video chat.