Inspiration for the name
Gerald was the name of a possum that we found in our trash can two nights before Boilermake. Unfortunately on the way to the event one of our team members hit Gerald with their car. We dedicated this project to our once trash dwelling possum that is no longer with us.
What it does
Gerald will gather the last 10 photos found on an instagram profile using python3 and BeautifulSoup and then send those photos up to the Clarifai api in order to get some common themes in the pictures. From there it will be sent up to the frontend page using flask (backend) and js (frontend) in order to display it to the users.
Challenges I ran into
We had originally planned on using the instagram api. However, since it requires an invitation we had to make a workaround which involved us scraping the data using python. This slowed down the development and also the speed at which Gerald performed, but it was a learning experience.
Log in or sign up for Devpost to join the conversation.