Inspiration
A joke that was a little too on the nose.
What it does
It tells you if any given company is owned by Disney, yes or no.
How we built it
We started the website with pure HTML and CSS. We added javascript to take in user input. We then used Flask to give that data to a server, which ran on Python for the main algorithm, which utilized BeautifulSoup. Then the server responded back with the result. Bootstrap and javascript touch-ups were used later to make the website look pretty. Then we got link
Challenges we ran into
Getting data from JavaScript into Python so we could manipulate strings easier.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Communication with the server and client and beautiful soup web scraping.
What we learned
Flask, Beautiful-soup.
What's next for Does Disney Own It?
Generalized interface for use with multiple companies.
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