Inspiration
Social media has been constantly increasing and becoming more time consuming, so we wanted to create a project that would summarize what happened in the last 24 hours on just a screen, without having to scroll down.
What it does
Puts your own profile picture in the middle of the screen and connects a line to other peoples' posts. Posts were chosen based on: the number of mutual friends the poster has with the user, the number of likes the post gets, if the poster tagged a certain user, and the location (We focused on Instagram for this project).
How we built it
For front end, we used Flask to visualize data on the screen, and for back end, we used Selenium to parse Intsagram posts to retrieve the data.
Challenges we ran into
Instagram's API was difficult to navigate so we had to figure out a way to parse Instagram's data ourselves.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Successfully figuring out how to retrieve certain data from our own Instagram account.
What we learned
How to use certain frameworks and learn how to obtain data without an API.
What's next for Friend Zone
Do a similar idea with another social media app.
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