⚽ FootyLinks Documentation ⚽️

Setup

• IDE - PyCharm

• Python 3.6

• Bootstrap - Hideo template, download here (originally like $20)

• Python packages (Pycharm allows you to install everything easily)

  lxml==3.6.0												# Fast parser for beautifulSoup
  requests==2.13.0
  praw==3.6.0												# Reddit API
  Jinja2==2.9.4
  Flask==0.12
  beautifulsoup4==4.5.3							# Web Scraper
  bs4==0.0.1
  

Project Structure

Download the code from bitbucket and you should see this structure.

FootyLinks/

• app/
  • static/ <— this has all the css, js and images
  • templates/ <— contains all the .html files that are displayed
  • init.py <— main code file
  • content_management.py <— data dictionaries for scaling content over time
  • test_class.py
• app.py
• Procfile
• requirements.txt
• runtime.txt <— This specifies python 3.6 for deployment

Python Packages

All of the data displayed within the web app is scraped using: BeautifulSoup 4 and Praw:

Beautiful Soup Documentation - Beautiful Soup 4.4.0 documentation

PRAW: The Python Reddit API Wrapper - PRAW 4.3.1.dev0 documentation